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Exploring how consumer goods companies innovate in the digital age: the role of big data analytics companies
Get PDFThe advent and development of digital technologies have brought about a proliferation of online consumer reviews (OCRs), i.e., real-time customers’ evaluations of products, services, and brands. Increasingly, e-commerce platforms are using them to gain insights from customer feedback. Meanwhile, a new generation of big data analytics (BDA) companies are crowdsourcing large volumes of OCRs by means of controlled ad hoc online experiments and advanced machine learning (ML) techniques to forecast demand and determine the market potential for new products in several industries. We illustrate how this process is taking place for consumer goods companies by exploring the case of UK digital BDA company, SoundOut. Based on an in-depth qualitative analysis, we develop the consumer goods company innovation (CGCI) conceptual framework, which illustrates how digital BDA firms help consumer goods companies to test new products before they are launched on the market, and innovate. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed
Prosumers’ intention to co-create business value and the moderating role of digital media usage
Get PDFThe study identifies the factors impacting prosumers’ intention for co-production and future participation. It also investigates the moderating role of digital media usage in the relationship between behavioral intention of prosumers for value co-creation and business benefit of the organization. Based on a literature review of co-creation and related theories and a survey, we developed and tested a conceptual model using the PLS-SEM technique. The study also analyzes the moderating impact of digital media by using multi group analysis. This study has also analyzed the impacts of three control variables (i.e., age, gender, and education) on the behavioral intention of the prosumers for value cocreation by means of mediation analysis. We find that the intention of prosumer for co-production as well as intention of prosumers for future participation influences behavioral intention of prosumers for value cocreation which in turn positively impacts business benefits of the organization. The study also finds that usage of digital media has significant moderating impact on the relationship between behavior intention of prosumers for value co-creation and business benefit of the organization
The consequences of innovation failure: An innovation capabilities and dynamic capabilities perspective
Get PDFOrganizations engage with innovation by leveraging their innovation capabilities and dynamic capabilities. In this study, we examined how organizational innovation capabilities and dynamic capabilities can influence organizational performance, taking into account cases when innovation projects do not yield beneficial outcomes to organizations. Building on the dynamic capability view and the notion of innovation capability, we developed a conceptual model and subsequently validated it by conducting a survey on a sample of organizations across multiple manufacturing and service industries that are based in India. By applying PLS-SEM, we found that different contextual factors including commercial viability and technological feasibility play a critical role towards innovation failure and success. In its turn, innovation failure negatively influences organizational performance
Competitiveness and sustainability in the paper industry: The valorisation of human resources as an enabling factor
Get PDFThe concepts of green economy and circular economy are changing the strategies and operating practices of many companies, as the manufacturing sector must be able to strike a balance between technological challenges, sustainability demands, and digitization opportunities. This study focuses on the paper sector and aims to assess which actions could enable a company in the sector to be more competitive. The method used is multi-criteria decision analysis, and eight alternatives are compared (virgin fiber, recycled fiber, renewable energy, waste, wastewater, digitization, human resources, and customer relations) through a competitiveness indicator. The results show that the criterion considered most relevant is health and safety, highlighting how the social sphere plays a fundamental role. Regarding competitiveness indicator, human resources management is seen as the most important parameter, showing how their valorization can be an enabling factor for a manufacturing company to be both sustainable and competitive. However, all the other combined alternatives can provide a winning mix. It emerges that only raw materials are of minor importance. Social changes affecting the paper industry both internally and externally reveal that underestimating this dimension of sustainability can be counterproductive. For this reason, eight different actions are proposed that can support green and competitive human resource management
Examining the role of intellectual capital on knowledge sharing in digital platform-based MNEs and its impact on firm performance
Get PDFNon-market strategies are strategies that happen outside the marketplace. Despite their increasing relevance, they have been overlooked when studying digital platform-based enterprises. To address this gap, our study focuses on digital platforms and builds and tests hypotheses in relation to digital platform based MNEs. First, we identify several antecedents and consequences of the adoption of non-market strategies by digital platform-based multinational enterprises (MNEs). Secondly, after conducting a survey on 11 digital platform-based MNEs, we deploy the PLS-SEM technique to analyze the data. We find that intellectual capital positively influences digital platform-based MNE subsidiaries' knowledge sharing and seeking. This, in turn, positively influences coordination and cooperation that ultimately positively affect firm performance. This study makes several contributions. First, it suggests that the evolution of digital platform-based MNEs involves also non-market strategies. Second, it finds that intellectual capital is among the most relevant antecedents of the adoption of non-market strategies by digital platform-based MNEs. Third, it reveals that the adoption of non-market strategies by MNE subsidiaries is conducive to highest levels of firm performance for digital platform-based MNEs themselves. Last, it finds that coordination and cooperation represent enablers of the relationship between knowledge transfer and firm performance
Data for: Blockchain Adoption Challenges in Supply Chain: An Empirical Investigation of the Main Drivers in India and the USA
No full textThe folder has two datasets 1. One for supply chain professionals with at least three years of experience in the area of blockchain in India2. Another of for supply chain professionals with at least three years of experience in the area of blockchain in the US
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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