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Collaborative Innovation in Digital Era - A conceptual framework
No full textDigital transformation compels organizations to revisit their business activities. In this article, we focus on collaborative innovation as an approach to sustain competitive advantage in the complex and fast changing environment characterizing the digital transformation process. The contribution of this paper is a conceptual framework focuses on digital transformation in three key areas: organizational boundaries, business process and value creation. And it proposes collaborative innovation as an innovation strategy where organizations combining knowledge, technologies, and other resources across organizational boundaries to innovate in digital era
OPEN INNOVATION WITH SUPPLIERS: THE EFFECTS OF TIE STRENGTHS, RESOURCE VITALITY AND FUTURE BUSINESS
No full textKnowledge distribution forces firms to search outside for new knowledge to sustain their competitive advantages. The purpose of this study is to examine how a firm can manage and govern supply ties in open innovation from a social network perspective. A systematic literature review methodology was adopted and 50 publications were synthesized to draw conclusions about the open innovation with suppliers. Building on SLR, we extend the idea of tie strength and introduce two forms of strong ties; “vital strong ties” and “overembedded strong ties”, and two forms of weak ties; “potential weak ties” and “infant weak ties”. The proposed framework suggested that the idea of open innovation is further than connecting to weak ties. Strong ties with vital resources are valuable source of knowledge in open innovation projects. Second, expectation of future business constrains opportunistic behavior of suppliers and affects knowledge flow positively in open innovation process
Un’analisi delle caratteristiche strutturali e delle tendenze delle imprese agroalimentari del Piceno
No full textAgility in virtual environments: the socio-technical approach of distributed agile teams
Full text linkPurpose – This study aims to understand how distributed agile teams (DATs), encouraged by globalisation, and recently accelerated by the COVID-19 outbreak, adopt agile practices to achieve project goals by working virtually.
Design/methodology/approach – This study developed a multiple-case study involving four companies undergoing several changes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors collected data mainly through in-depth, face-to-face interviews with seven key informants. Moreover, this study operates data triangulation by referring to secondary data sources and developing a grounded theory data analysis.
Findings – The findings highlight three main categories associated with the DAT functioning, namely, “DATs’ implementation issues”, “elements supporting DATs’ implementation” and “outcomes of DATs’ implementation”, that show DATs’ primary triggers, critical aspects and supportive actions for team functioning.
Research limitations/implications – This paper produced valuable theoretical knowledge of DATs’ dynamics within a socio-technical approach that distinguishes soft and hard variables supporting DAT implementation. Moreover, the evidence provides useful suggestions for managers about creating an objective-oriented virtual work environment based on DATs’self-organisation, digitally shared leadership and occasional on-site socialisation.
Originality/value – This paper provides new and interesting insights that bring to evidence the main variables related to DATs’ adoption and dynamics, showing supporting activities that enhanced their operativity. It provides a valuable descriptive framework for academics and practitioners to understand DATs’ functioning better and take action to improve their implementation
Agile Project Management and ambidexterity - A reconciliation of contextual exploration and exploitation
No full textPurpose of the paper: Besides a traditional contingent perspective that frames change projects within the opposite planned-exploitation oriented and emergent-exploration oriented forms, we aim at exploring a connected perspective, through the contextual ambidextrous lens on the Agile project management context. Methodology: We adopt a multiple case study, based on interviews to different agile oriented companies, by using a grounded approach for discovering the modalities through which agile adoption shows both emergent (exploration-oriented) and planned (exploitationoriented) tensions, in a perspective that connects, more than separates, them. Main Findings: We discover different main categories that capture the tensions between planned- exploitation oriented and emergent exploration-oriented issues of agile projects: direction, objectives, boundaries and leadership. Each category highlights the connection among exploitation and exploration aspect of agile projects. Practical implications: Exploring the tensions on Agile projects provide with a more complete understanding about how such opposite forces are connected and how such paradoxical forces are managed within a real project context. Originality/value: Differently from previous research, we highlight the agile nested tensions, from a real-world project context, by describing how Agile project managemen
Resource Constrained Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Towards a Theoretical Framework
No full textThe traditional concept of innovation involves substantial financial investments, resource usage and existence of supporting institutions. However, in emerging economies that lack such resources and institutions the concept of innovation has to be modified accordingly. Thus, the focus is on understanding how innovation can be pursued with the existence of such constraints. The extant literature on this subject stands divided and fragmented, with no clear theoretical framework that coherently explains the concept of resource constrained innovation. This paper systematically reviews the literature on the existing research work and leverages on two relevant case studies to propose a model
Characterizing agile supply partnerships in the fashion industry
Full text linkPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate high-involvement and short-term supply
relationships, known as agile supply partnerships (ASPs), and explores the conditions that support the
development of such inter-organizational relationships.
Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative exploratory research design was followed, based on
in-depth case studies of Italian fashion footwear manufacturers and their relationships with key suppliers.
Findings – ASPs appear to be most relevant in supply material categories which have a high impact
on the appearance or functionality of the product. Conversely, in supply categories with a low impact,
long-term partnerships are preferred. Four main characteristics of ASPs are identified: they are part of
a portfolio of relationships to balance the rigidities of long-term strategic partnerships; they have
project-like features; they are developed from a network of pre-qualified suppliers; they are recurring
and intermittent rather than continuous or isolated one-off short-term partnerships.
Research limitations/implications – The research has been carried out in the context of an Italian
footwear district. Further research is required to evaluate the validity of the propositions in other
sectors and geographies.
Practical implications – The research can help decision makers in the fashion industry, and
potentially other sectors affected by high turbulence, to identify when ASPs are most appropriate and
what characteristics they should have.
Originality/value – This research contributes to the literature on agility by empirically evaluating
the apparent paradox related to the specific characteristics of supply relationships required to foster an
agile strategy and by clarifying the conditions under which fashion companies develop ASPs
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