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Retail stores openings as a market entry strategy for SMEs. Empirical evidence in the Italian fashion industry
No full textLo sviluppo nel retail come modalità di internazionalizzazione delle PMI manifatturiere. Il caso della moda
No full textCompetence Attrition: A linguistic theory of the effects of external competence acquisition for organizations
Full text linkWhat happens to old competences in organizations when new competences are acquired? In this paper, we propose a competence attrition theory to explain the effects of acquiring new competences on previously acquired ones. While the presumed positive role of available competences for the acquisition of new competences has been the subject of extensive research, the potentially negative effect of the acquisition of external competences on the availability and use of existing competences has not been sufficiently theorized. We aim to do so by extending existing learning and absorptive capacity theories with insights from linguistics on competence attrition. Specifically, informed by parallel patterns in language acquisition and attrition, we develop a set of focused propositions on competence acquisition and attrition in organizations. We end the paper by discussing the implications of our theorizing for existing theory and research
What does happen when Chinese speak Italian? A cross-border acquisition case in the Italian luxury yachting industry
No full textInternationalization through e-commerce. The case of multibrand luxury retailers in the fashion industry
No full textBusiness network dynamics in cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms. A case in the luxury yachting industry
No full textRetail stores openings and customer experience in international markets. The case of Italian luxury manufacturing companies
No full textConsumer Ethnocentrism, National Identification, and Cosmopolitanism
Full text linkIn a context of reduced consumption and an increasing presence of foreign products, this study examines asymmetric relationships in the consumer
ethnocentrism (Ce) construct, analyzing the formation of attitudes toward the purchase of domestic versus foreign-made products as behavioral
outcomes of Ce and the marginal impact of cosmopolitanism and national identification as its antecedents. Although relationships among these
constructs have been well established in the literature, previous research has not specifically examined their marginal impact. Overall, the results
confirm that the explanatory power of Ce and its sources is not symmetric. The Ce construct seems more capable of explaining consumers’ positive bias toward home products than a negative bias against foreign products. Similarly, the results suggest the role of cosmopolitanism in decreasing
Ce, but its predictive capacity is weak compared with the sentiment of national identification. The findings provide a deep understanding of the
Ce construct, introducing the concept of «asymmetric ethnocentrism» and suggesting a modification of Shimp and Sharma’s original definition of Ce.
The findings also highlight the notion that the opposite of national identity is not the cosmopolitan orientation and suggest further investigation
of the xenophile phenomenon as a new antecedent of Ce
The IMP research on business networks: a systematic literature review and research agenda
Full text linkMore than 40 years of Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) research have revealed that in b2b markets, business exchange is carried out in continuous buyer–seller relationships. This involves direct and indirect interaction and dynamics resulting in significant related social and material investments and in extensive interdependencies that confer on the business landscape a market-as-network structure. Since the introduction of this ideas, research on business networks has been richly alimented by researchers of the IMP community. Yet, we do not have a clear overview of what this literature has covered in the last twenty years (in the period 2002–2022), in parallel with the many changes that have affected business landscape. With this study, we aim to examine what is the status of the last 20 years of IMP literature specifically dealing with the business networks level of analysis (45 articles) and to offer key directions for imminent research in this domain while analyzing and synthesizing extant literature
Navigating through turbulent times: global and local actors in the luxury fashion supply chain
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