73 research outputs found
Social, cognitive and technical aspects of network technologies diffusion in industrial districts
No full textThe aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship that occurs among network technologies and localised industrial networks of firms such as industrial districts. Industrial districts (IDs) are a typical Italian industrial feature and can be defined as regional hyper-networks, that is networks of inter-organizational networks located in a defined territory. These networks are multidimensional in the sense that district actors (small and medium enterprises, associative structures and local institutions) interact each other at economic, social, cognitive and symbolic level, by creating dense and recursive patterns of interaction. In spite of the apparent fitness among the networked district model and the networking potentiality of new technologies, data collected by Federcomin and TeDIS Center highlight ambiguous trends in the adoption of network technologies by district firms. The paper aims to analyze reasons underlying this evidence by emphasizing challenges and opportunities offered by new technologies to district firms. This paper is the output of my preliminary scouting activity in the field made in order to build a framework for my Ph. D. dissertation on knowledge transfer mechanisms through networked technologies inside industrial district
Il contesto organizzativo ed il mobbing: verso un’”organizzazione trasparente”
No full textIl contributo affronta il tema della rilevanza del contesto organizzativo nel rischio di insorgenza di fenomeni di mobbing in azienda. La struttura organizzativa può infatti essere definita come il “contenitore” all’interno del quale le dinamiche relazionali disfunzionali che conducono ad episodi di mobbing si manifestano e si annidano. I principali fattori analizzati riguardano il grado di gerarchizzazione della struttura organizzativa e, di conseguenza, anche la lunghezza delle catene decisionali; l’identità, la cultura ed i valori organizzativi, il ruolo della comunicazione interna, la leadership ed il processo di performance management. In quanto scenario all’interno del quale si possono sviluppare situazioni a rischio, l’organizzazione, con le sue norme e pratiche socialmente costruite, può intraprendere la strada verso la trasparenza, intesa come la capacità di prevenire l’insorgenza di dinamiche disfunzionali
Il mobbing e il sistema organizzativo: processi, struttura e cultura
No full textIl capitolo affronta il tema della rilevanza del contesto organizzativo nel rischio di insorgenza di fenomeni di mobbing in azienda. I principali fattori analizzati riguardano il grado di gerarchizzazione della struttura organizzativa e, di conseguenza, anche la lunghezza delle catene decisionali; l’identità, la cultura ed i valori organizzativi, il ruolo della comunicazione interna, la leadership ed il processo di performance management. In quanto scenario all’interno del quale si possono sviluppare situazioni a rischio, l’organizzazione, in base a diverse configurazioni degli elementi sopra indicati, può essere definita più o meno trasparente, nel senso che può essere strutturata in modo da rendere più o meno facile la prevenzione e l’individuazione degli episodi di mobbing
Communities and managerial competencies supporting SMEs innovation networking: a longitudinal case study
No full textDuring the last few decades it has become evident that Small and Medium-sized enterprises should heavily rely on networking in order to get access to innovation and to larger knowledge bases. The paper analyses the birth and the evolution over time of an Italian Innovation Community created by a group of SMEs in search for innovation. Coming from quite different businesses, those SMEs converged around a challenging project in the field of biomedical and re-habilitation devices. The aim of the paper is twofold: (1) to investigate what kind of competences and tasks have to accomplished in order to effectively manage an IC and what managerial roles (promotors) emerge by crossing competences and tasks; (2) to what extent community members’ absorptive capacity influences their ability to acquire and exploit innovation generated by the community. Using an in-depth longitudinal case study analysis we individuated three different stages in community evolution and we studied which promotor roles emerged in each stage and what is the relationship among them and community performance. Furthermore we investigated to what extent existing knowledge base in the specific domain and previous experiences in networking influenced community members’ ability to exploit innovation. We found that a specific correspondence among competences and tasks is needed in order to guarantee community performance and that promotors should interact among themselves in order to get the community to its goal. About absorptive capacity, it emerges that prior experience and familiarity in networking are not predictive of new knowledge exploitation
Innovation networking and SMEs: Open communities and absorptive capacity. Two case studies along a continuum in the innovative process
No full textRapporto di ricerca sul cluster biomedicale nelle province di Brescia e Bergamo - Sezione di Economia
No full textInstitutional entrepreneurship and organizational innovation: The start-up of a divergent new venture at the periphery of a mature field
No full textIn this article, we address the question of institutional and organizational change through the start-up of new ventures.
Following the institutional entrepreneurship theory, we examine the process of divergent change and the kinds of
institutional work enabling entrepreneurs operating in a peripheral social position of mature fields to challenge the
existing status quo. We argue that the start-up of new organizations can be an opportunity for repositioning existing
traditional entrepreneurial capabilities by combining them with additional and complementary competences towards new
institutional logics. Building on an in-depth longitudinal case study of a group of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises
– acting intentionally as a community for innovation – we highlight the contextual conditions and the implementing factors
allowing this type of institutional entrepreneurship. Our study makes two main contributions. First, we try to fill the gap
with existing research mostly focused on dominant organizations, by showing how institutional entrepreneurship can be
implemented by low-status organizations, within highly institutionalized fields. Second, we shed light on the process
implementing new divergent organizational forms, by bridging established mature firms with new innovative fields
Entrepreneurship, innovation and performance: Why context matters
No full textThe paper is aimed to analyze, under a theoretical point of view, challenges in individuating innovative new entrepreneurial business ventures and start-ups and measuring their performance. Entrepreneurship has been widely studied during the last decades, however empirical findings in assessing performance are often contradictory to one another. Moreover several studies on entrepreneurship neglect analyzing the role of context in which entrepreneurial activity is carried on and, conversely, the impact that entrepreneurial activity has on its contexts (business, social, cultural and institutional one) of reference. Here we suggest some directions for contextualizing entrepreneurship studies, namely about assessing and measuring performance
Le dinamiche di internazionalizzazione delle imprese lombarde attraverso quattro casi di studio
No full textIl capitolo racconta i processi di internazionalizzazione di quattro imprese lombarde del settore automotive (Brembo, Streparava, OMR ed il Gruppo AR) analizzandone la storia e, più in dettaglio, la struttura della Global Value Chain, le relazioni con i fornitori, le modalità di ingresso nei mercati esteri e le problematiche culturali legate alla gestione di imprese multinazionali
Le tecnologie di rete a supporto del marketing e dell’identità del territorio nei distretti industriali
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