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Percorsi evolutivi e soluzioni strategiche per la continuità aziendale
No full textQuesto volume è rivolto ai tanti imprenditori preoccupati della continuità della loro azienda familiare e in difficoltà nell'affrontare un passaggio generazionale che assai di frequente costringe a fare i conti con problemi complessi e, a volte, apparentemente insolubili
Quando successione fa rima con innovazione: come esplodere il potenziale aziendale con il passaggio generazionale
No full textEsterno ma non troppo: successione con amministratore delegato non familiare ma insider all’azienda
No full textThe Adoption of ICT in Small And Medium-sized Family Business. The Role of Younger Generation
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to understand if the involvement of younger generation in small and medium-sized family firms can encourage a process of technological innovation, realized through the introduction and use of Information and Communication Technology. Younger entrepreneurs, that we call digital successors, compared to their predecessors, has a higher level of education and, living in an era dominated by electronics and digital information, should be able to exploit the new technologies in business organization and management. The new generation has skills, energy and innovative spirit necessary to start the process of technological innovation. From the methodological point of view, this work is based on a qualitative research involving two case studies. In both the family firms analyzed the involvement of the younger generation promoted the adoption of ICTs. This study is proposed as an initial moment of reflection to better identify some hypothesis to be tested with further investigations and a quantitative analysis.ICT, digital entrepreneur, family business, small and medium enterprises, technological innovation, generational change
"It-could-work!" Multistakeholder governance mechanisms for firms' regeneration: An opportunity for SMEs in times of crisis
No full textThis study addresses workers buyouts as a form of governance suitable for designing and implementing solutions to business crises from a socially responsible and multistakeholder perspective. In recent years, there have been repeated phases of economic crisis that have led to increased business crises, resulting in great damage to society as a whole as well as the real lives of the people involved. Business crises affect managers and employees working at firms in crisis, which in turn impacts their families. Using a single case study approach, this research focuses on the governance changes leading to a workers buyout and the formation of a cooperative firm. It explores in depth the conditions that enable the start-up of a workers buyout and the critical issues faced by the new form of governance. In particular, the study focuses on how external stakeholders can play a crucial role in a firm’s entrepreneurial relaunch. The findings show that the experience of a workers buyout can represent a meaningful model for relaunching on a new entrepreneurial path that offers new opportunities to a firm, its managers and its workers from a multistakeholder and sustainable perspective
The Role of Serial Crowdfunding in Startup Firms’ Innovative Activities
No full textCrowdfunding (CF) has attracted increasing attention from researchers and many studies have been conducted in order toshed light over a variety of aspects of the phenomenon, especially when a start-up is involved in.Recently, CF has been investigated also in the light of the “seriality” of CF campaigns, i.e. the participation to more than one campaign by the startup. The existing studies in this stream of research, focus mainly on how “serial CF” affects the management of the subsequent campaigns and their performance, thus adopting a merely “tactical” perspective on the phenomenon. More importantly, there is a lack of in-depth studies over the actual processes characterizing serial CF and its role in innovation strategies and practices.Consistently with the above mentioned gaps in literature, the main goal of this paper is thus to analyze more in depth the role of serial CF in innovation strategies adopted by start-up firms, shedding light on the micro-processes involved, in line with the recent call for exploring the “non-financial” dimension of CF.To this aim the paper adopts a qualitative methodology based on an exploratory case-study of a company actively exploiting multiple CF campaigns mostly as opportunities for innovation. The case offers offers insights over the role of serial CF in innovation processes
Innovative SMEs’ circular economy practices amidst the COVID-19 crisis: A policy incentives focus
No full textSpecific interventions enabling innovative SMEs to access finance during crisis are of extreme relevance for their survival. Governments’ incentives related to SMEs during the pandemic have generally focused on grants, deferral of tax and debt payments, and the extension or simplification of the provision of loan guarantees to enable SMEs accessing credit (OECD, 2020). At the European level, policy response to crisis is routed towards the establishment of a Recovery plan for the years 2021-2027 that will prioritize specific funds for the transition to a green climate-neutral economy.
Regarding the SMEs’ context, the transition toward sustainability has also been widely recommended by European Institutions due to their relevant environmental impact (Bontoux and Bengtsson, 2015). Thus, COVID-19 pandemic could represent an opportunity for SMEs to innovate their strategy around sustainability and survive the crisis (Pencarelli et al., 2020; IbnMohammed et al., 2021; Prieto-Sandoval et al., 2021). To the actual state of the art, the role of public policies to provide financial supports to sustainability innovation in time of COVID-19 crisis is under-investigated, especially when focusing on innovative SMEs. Based on this premise, and considering the Italian context, this study aims at analyzing how COVID19-related incentives issued through the Law 77/2020 (Recovery Decree) focused to innovative SMEs have supported circular economy (CE) as sustainability-oriented innovations
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