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Data Warehouse-in-practice: exploring the function of expectations in organizational outcomes
No full textTraditionally, data warehouses (DW) have been counted among the most powerful problem-solving tools to enable easy
access to information and enhance the effectiveness of decision-making processes. Nevertheless, as noted by some authors, the outcome of any Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool is
emergent, since there will always be scope for improvisation in technology use. ICT tools are expected to be used in different ways, either ignoring certain properties, working around them, or inventing new ones that may go beyond or even contradict designers’ expectations and inscriptions. In order to cope with this, the term ‘‘technology-in-practice’’ is frequently used.
Adopting this perspective, the aim of the authors was to broaden the empirical basis of DW-in-practice, showing how different uses of the same tool could lead to different outcomes. We, therefore, examined DW-in-practice in three manufacturing and services organizations
Innovation and SMEs: misaligned perspectives and goals among entrepreneurs, academics and policy makers
No full textThe present research stems from the results of a survey on the innovativeness of a sample of Italian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). These results, largely based on self-reported data by entrepreneurs or managers, showed that the considered SMEs were important developers of radical innovations in contrast with data published by local institutions. This misalignment between the entrepreneurs’ opinions and the official data, that are typically defined and selected by academics and policy makers, motivated a new
research aimed at analyzing the intimate reasons for it. The research is rooted in the social construction of innovation perspective and is based on interviews with the three main innovation stakeholders, identified as: entrepreneurs, academics, and policy makers. The results show the existence of deeply different perspectives concerning innovation, starting from its definition, to the effective policies to promote
it, to the role of intermediary institutions and so on. Sometimes, these views show diverging goals among the stakeholders and, consequently, contrasting opinions on effective supporting policies. These results can partly explain the misalignment between the survey’s output and ‘‘institutional’’ data and, maybe, also the failure of many supporting initiatives that are largely documented by our
survey and also by literature. The aim of the paper is to investigate the different perspectives on innovation held by the considered stakeholders, highlighting the points of major contrast together with similarities in order to provide new insights into the problem
Knowledge domain and innovation behaviour: A framework for conceptualize KMSs in small and medium enterprises
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A knowledge management approach to organization competitive advantage: evidences from the food sector
No full textThis paper uses a comparative case study approach to investigate how two small Italian food producers manage their knowledge. The first company under consideration is mainly focused on marketing, while the second on the technology knowledge domain. This paper enriches the existing literature by documenting examples of how companies can successfully manage organizational knowledge on the basis of their relative knowledge domain. This research claims that not only knowledge domain but also innovation behavior seem to be the contingencies that mostly impact on knowledge management system features. In fact, the different combinations of the two variables have deeply different requirements in terms of knowledge management
Leveraging on knowledge: Knowledge management in a cluster of Italian small and medium enterprises.
No full textKnowledge management for gaining a sustainable competitive advantage: evidences from the Italian food sector
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