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Mirroring Back: How Middle-Sized Multinational Enterprises Innovate by Internationalization
No full textThe strategies of internationalization have been one of most relevant topics in managerial literature in the last decade. Although new perspectives are flourishing, and new approaches integrate different knowledge and competences of several disciplines theoretical frameworks build on large size multinationals show some limits to be applied in studying medium sized organization.
The research question is how medium size multinational enterprises (MMNE) innovate leveraging the international exposure? In our first exploratory research we try to demonstrate that, “one size does not fit all” and the results sustain the internationalization theory based on replication versus adaptation. The first study provides a framework and some preliminary evidence to comprehend how and why the MMNEs internationalization strategies deviate from the strategies of the multinational and global companies (MNC). The second field study provides an explanation of major factors that influence the innovation of business models generated by internationalization in a dynamic and growing foreign market. We outline these consequences of international learning in a set of action that defines the “mirroring back” effects. The final research question is whether internationalization strategy may amplify the organizational capabilities extending the innovation by internationalization and if this effect happens in midsize firms.
Our research is focused on MMNEs in China. Two reasons drive us to consider these markets: first, the relevance of Chinese economy in the global competitive arena; second, the speed of the institutional changes in a rapid and persistent economic growth (Pontiggia and Vescovi, 2013)
Senza tradizione non c’è innovazione: dalle strategie relazionali con il mercato all’innovazione disruptive
No full textL’innovazione disruptive è quella che rompe le regole della competizione e fonda le basi per un il vantaggio competitivo futuro. Gli studi di Salvio Vicari insegnano che per raggiungere l’innovazione disruptive l’impresa deve prima saper ascoltare il mercato. La strategia relazionale con il mercato fornisce allora le condizioni abilitanti della innovazione disruptive, condizioni che l’impresa deve assicurarsi per poter valorizzare l’evoluzione tecnologica.
Attraverso una analisi della letteratura dei principali filoni di marketing che si sono occupati delle strategie relazionali con il mercato, questo scritto propone sei condizioni abilitanti della tradizione di marketing al servizio dell’innovazione dell’impresa.
Anche l’innovazione più dirompente non nasce dal nulla, ma ha sempre alla base una lunga tradizione di ascolto del cliente. L’analisi della letteratura condotta evidenzia così che cambiano i filoni di ricerca, cambiano le etichette, cambiano le prospettive, cambiano anche le mode, ma la centralità del cliente è, e resta, l’essenza del marketing
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
L'evoluzione del pensiero scientifico di Salvio Vicari
No full textIl capitolo sintetizza l'evoluzione del pensiero scientifico e della ricerca del professor Salvio Vicari, ripercorrendo i suoi studi, dai primi contributi in tema di imprese commerciali e distribuzione ai lavori più recenti riferiti alle risorse, al valore e all'innovazione
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