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Il Ruolo della fairness nelle alleanze coopetitive
No full textCoopetition concerns interorganizational relationships between competitors. We explore rising conflicts in these relationships between two competitors and ask this question: To what extent and under which conditions does the perceived unfairness of the rival partner’s actions lead to the escalation of conflicts, the deterioration of the interorganizational relationships and sanctioning of the rival’s behavior
Competence 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
The competitiveness of entrepreneurial firms from a network perspective
No full textAn organizational perspective of interfirm relations introduces the notion of organizational contingencies on the link between a firm’s strategy and performance. In this sense a central question is how differ- ent competitiveness effects are related, for example firm-competitiveness effects and firm-constellation effects and how this interplay is effected by processes in time
Many roads lead to rome. A configurational analysis of strategies for new venture creation
Full text linkAssessment and development of coachability in entrepreneurship education
Full text linkAs coaching and alumni mentoring are used to develop student startup talent the coachability of students becomes an enabling factor for reflection- and action-based learning methods in entrepreneurship education. There is limited research on how to assess and develop coachability, especially in entrepreneurship education. This paper aims to narrow the gap. This study adopts a competency-based approach by devising competency assessment tools, undertaking a coachability survey and using Behavioral Event Interviews. It thus adopts a mixed method design, combining quantitative and qualitative techniques.
Our exploratory research shows that coachability has a positive relationship with educational outcomes and that coachability competencies, such as self-awareness and flexibility, are important. We show that coachability can be developed through experiential learning and that such learning enables the acquisition of competencies, such as transferring learning into action and taking initiative. The opportunity to develop coachability through entrepreneurship education fosters the design of experiential learning and strengthens students' coachability competencies, thereby aiding graduates’ capacity to attract venture funding. We make an original contribution to assessing coachability by adopting a multi-method and multi-perspective approach and provide a way of creating greater impact when assessing and developing coachability
Make it work - The challenge to diversity in entrepreneurial teams: A configurational perspective
Full text linkTeams and timing are considered decisive for firm survival. We investigate the impact on firm survival of entrepreneurial team composition, in terms of diversity, and the speed of entering markets. Unlike research analysing the effects of low or high diversity, our research understands new venture teams as configurations of multiple, concurrent dimensions of diversity by untangling it in variety, separation, and disparity. By identifying distinct survival and failure configurations, we demonstrate that team variety is functional for firm survival if challenged by separation or disparity
How to acquire legitimacy and become a player in a regional innovation ecosystem? The case of a young university
Full text linkUniversities are recognized as a particular type of public organization. Due to the important role they are acquiring in the development of regional economies, universities are facing significant pressures to become more entrepreneurial and similar to private sector organizations. This new role requires universities to engage in substantial change activities in order to get legitimacy from their ecosystem. Change management literature has mainly assumed that changes in public-sector organizations are the result of top-down initiatives as well as the exercise of political clout. Instead, the role of agency and bottom-up dynamics in explaining change in public-sector organizations is still overlooked. Based on a longitudinal case study of a young university in Italy, this research explores its bottom-up process of internal transformation to become more entrepreneurial and fully legitimized in its local innovation ecosystem. In doing so, we contribute to existing literature in several ways. First, we add a process lens for understanding the transformation of a public actor not from the perspective of environmentally imposed changes processes, but through proactive interactions, role definition and activities. Second, we demonstrate that the entry of a key actor in a regional system unfreezes the existing equilibrium, by changing the distribution of competences and the awareness of other actors’ activity. Third, we show that bottom-up processes favouring bandwagon effects are particularly appropriate for change processes of public institutions that are not affected by a substantial crisis (as usual trigger for change processes)
Outlier antecedents, processes, and consequences in the emergence of new ventures
No full textWe investigate whether differences in individual opportunity cost influence the choice of a new venture’s strategy and, subsequently, how that strategy effects venture outcomes. Analyzing longitudinal data from a representative sample of nascent ventures with fuzzy-set Qualitative
Comparative Analysis techniques, we identify six distinct strategy configurations, of which two are exclusive to outlier entrepreneurs (those individuals with the highest opportunity costs). Our findings demonstrate that global strategies focused on internationalization and innovation are
central to the emergence and growth of outlier entrepreneurs, whereas those with much lower opportunity costs improve their chance for successful emergence with more local strategies
The proposed engineering laboratory at the Kansas State Agricultural College
No full textCitation: Lechner, Christian Dagobert. The proposed engineering laboratory at the Kansas State Agricultural College. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1898.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: After a great deal of labor, the Kansas State Agricultural College, as able to secure from the legislature of the state a fund which was sufficient to build a laboratory, but not large enough to supply it with the proper engineering laboratory equipments. When we consider what the true meaning of a laboratory is, its value cannot be overestimated, as a helper in developing the science with which it is connected. The science of engineering has grown upon experimental data, and hence it is necessary that there should be place equipped with expensive apparatus in order that the experimental side of the science may receive its proper attention and be carried out to proper satisfaction. If this is supplied, it not only furnishes a large field for the student, but also for the professor in charge, to carry out experiments and to make deeper research for facts, which will upbuild the science. All persons that have a fairly clear idea or understanding of science, are competent to understand such experiments, and to work at them until they get satisfactory results. The word laboratory is often misunderstood by some people
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