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Strategie competitive in contesti di convergenza tecnologica e di mercato: il caso Apple ITunes music store
No full textEmprendimiento social como una fuerza para las sociedades más inclusivas e innovadoras: Un análisis y elaboración de perfiles de las empresas con fines sociales en España
Full text linkA lo largo de los meses entre abril y diciembre de 2015, el consorcio SEFORÏS encuestó a más de 1000 empresas con fines sociales en Hungría, Rumania, España, Portugal, Alemania, Suecia, Reino Unido, Rusia y China. Esto signifca que gracias a la cooperación diligente de las empresas con fines sociales y la financiación de la Unión Europea hemos sido capaces de poner en marcha una base de datos de tipo panel de las empresas con fines sociales más grande y rigurosa del mundo. Este informe presenta los resultados más importantes para España. Siempre que es posible, comparamos los resultados con los resultados de la encuesta SELUSI 2009, el predecesor del proyecto SEFORÏS. Este informe está diseñado para ayudar a las empresas con fines sociales establecer un punto de referencia para comparar su organización con otras empresas con fines sociales en España. Su objetivo consiste en ayudarles a posicionar mejor su organización (por ejemplo, captar lo que le distingue de las demás, detectar fácilmente las diferencias y similitudes respecto a las organizaciones del mismo sector). El informe también será útil para las organizaciones de apoyo y los responsables políticos para obtener una visión general de las empresas con fines sociales en España
Social Entrepreneurship as a Force for More Inclusive and Innovative Societies: An Analysis and Profiling of Social Enterprises in Spain. LUISS University Press
No full textSEFORÏS stands for “Social Entrepreneurship as a Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies”. It is a multi-disciplinary research programme, funded by the European Commission, that investigates the potential of social enterprise in the EU and beyond, to enhance the inclusiveness of societies through greater stakeholder engagement, promotion of civic capitalism and changes to social service provision. This Publication presents in detail the results coming from the data collected in Spain. Such a contribution is unique in its scope and depth – in our conversations with participating organizations, since it discussed a whole host of topics, ranging fromsocial enterprises’innovation habits to their perceptions of the market wherein they operate. It is unique in its methodology - we adopted a special type of snowball sampling method, called respondent driven sampling,which allowed us to survey a representative sample of social enterprises in Spain through tapping into networks of the contacted organizations. And it is unique in its rigor - we took a range of steps to ensure data quality. In conclusion this Publication provides awhole set of evidences regarding the novel experimentation carried out by social enterprises and their positive and creative impact in nowadays society in terms of inclusiveness and innovatio
On the role of dynamic leveraging in periods of discontinuous technological substitution
No full textStarting from the relevance of discontinuous technological substitution and the following possible criticalities in dealing with emerging technology, this thesis takes place with the aim of tackle the open issues concerning how successfully enter in a emerging technological domain and, in doing that, how to fruitfully leverage previous technological experience. Coherently with what introduce above aim I developed the thesis in two main parts. In the first parts, first of all, I give a general overview of the research projects I developed, mainly focusing on the research problems, research questions specifically addressed and the main contributions offer by the single papers. Second, I describe the methodology I used for development of the empirical analysis, with a specific focus on: the characteristic of the empirical settings and the reason of its choice; the kind of data collected; the procedures for develop the final dataset; the specification of the model used; the main variables used in the analysis used until nowadays. In the second parts I develop the focal papers of the thesis, which specifically concern the following issues: • What explain the success in an emerging technological domain? Our idea is that the success in an emerging technological domain may be explained by the characteristics of knowledge that firms develop and by the implemented processes of knowledge leveraging. Starting from the assumption that technological distance may differ on the base of knowledge proximity to the technological paradigm of the industry, we differentiate knowledge developed in terms of affected technological domains that knowledge is more likely to impact (i.e. knowledge specificity, knowledge complementarity in industry-‐related domains and knowledge complementarity in industry-‐unrelated domains). Base on the opposite effects that, by technological novelty and learning processes, technological distance has on innovative performance of new knowledge, this paper is aimed at the comprehension of the extent to which the specificity, rather 8 than the breadth of the knowledge developed, may affect firms’ technological performance in an emerging domain. Finally, a recent literature discussion has put in evidence the difference between firms’ previous technological experience and the dynamic firms’ capacity, in the face of a discontinuous technological shift, to actual leverage the output of this experience that is the knowledge developed by the firm. Therefore the second main focus concerns the identification of the more fruitful leveraging process firms may actually carry on during the development of new knowledge in an emerging domain.
• There is a need for solve what different streams of literature have jointly identified as a paradox: in the face of a discontinuous technological shift, incumbents’ competence endowments constitute the main obstacle, and at the same time, the main reason for their success. Extant literature has considered the effect of discontinuous technological shifts on firm competencies in a dichotomous manner. In order to address the apparent lack of conclusive results in this field, there is a need for a more nuanced perspective. Resolving the apparent contradiction between different existing literature streams calls for an explanation of the specific circumstances under which the leveraging of existing competencies constitute an advantage and when they instead are negative. In order to allow for this, we introduce the concept of architectural depth, which extends and nuances the role played by product architecture in periods of discontinuous technological change. Even in the case of technological substitution of a core component, some competencies may need to be renewed or created ex novo, whereas others can be maintained and leveraged. It is proposed that the ability of incumbents to implement a process of competence leveraging impacting on the way in which firms reorganize their competence endowments, can also be considered a manifestation of dynamic capabilities. Inresponse to the bulk of existing studies underlining the negative effect of drawing upon established firms’ competencies, we posit that competence leveraging under specific conditions can become a source of competitive advantage rather than a 9 constraint, and that the possibility of doing so is related to the architectural depth of incumbents’ product architectures.Starting from the relevance of discontinuous technological substitution and the following possible criticalities in dealing with emerging technology, this thesis takes place with the aim of tackle the open issues concerning how successfully enter in a emerging technological domain and, in doing that, how to fruitfully leverage previous technological experience. Coherently with what introduce above aim I developed the thesis in two main parts. In the first parts, first of all, I give a general overview of the research projects I developed, mainly focusing on the research problems, research questions specifically addressed and the main contributions offer by the single papers. Second, I describe the methodology I used for development of the empirical analysis, with a specific focus on: the characteristic of the empirical settings and the reason of its choice; the kind of data collected; the procedures for develop the final dataset; the specification of the model used; the main variables used in the analysis used until nowadays. In the second parts I develop the focal papers of the thesis, which specifically concern the following issues: • What explain the success in an emerging technological domain? Our idea is that the success in an emerging technological domain may be explained by the characteristics of knowledge that firms develop and by the implemented processes of knowledge leveraging. Starting from the assumption that technological distance may differ on the base of knowledge proximity to the technological paradigm of the industry, we differentiate knowledge developed in terms of affected technological domains that knowledge is more likely to impact (i.e. knowledge specificity, knowledge complementarity in industry-‐related domains and knowledge complementarity in industry-‐unrelated domains). Base on the opposite effects that, by technological novelty and learning processes, technological distance has on innovative performance of new knowledge, this paper is aimed at the comprehension of the extent to which the specificity, rather 8 than the breadth of the knowledge developed, may affect firms’ technological performance in an emerging domain. Finally, a recent literature discussion has put in evidence the difference between firms’ previous technological experience and the dynamic firms’ capacity, in the face of a discontinuous technological shift, to actual leverage the output of this experience that is the knowledge developed by the firm. Therefore the second main focus concerns the identification of the more fruitful leveraging process firms may actually carry on during the development of new knowledge in an emerging domain.
• There is a need for solve what different streams of literature have jointly identified as a paradox: in the face of a discontinuous technological shift, incumbents’ competence endowments constitute the main obstacle, and at the same time, the main reason for their success. Extant literature has considered the effect of discontinuous technological shifts on firm competencies in a dichotomous manner. In order to address the apparent lack of conclusive results in this field, there is a need for a more nuanced perspective. Resolving the apparent contradiction between different existing literature streams calls for an explanation of the specific circumstances under which the leveraging of existing competencies constitute an advantage and when they instead are negative. In order to allow for this, we introduce the concept of architectural depth, which extends and nuances the role played by product architecture in periods of discontinuous technological change. Even in the case of technological substitution of a core component, some competencies may need to be renewed or created ex novo, whereas others can be maintained and leveraged. It is proposed that the ability of incumbents to implement a process of competence leveraging impacting on the way in which firms reorganize their competence endowments, can also be considered a manifestation of dynamic capabilities. Inresponse to the bulk of existing studies underlining the negative effect of drawing upon established firms’ competencies, we posit that competence leveraging under specific conditions can become a source of competitive advantage rather than a 9 constraint, and that the possibility of doing so is related to the architectural depth of incumbents’ product architectures.LUISS PhD Thesi
Social Entrepreneurship as a Force for More Inclusive and Innovative Societies: An Analysis and Profiling of Social Enterprises in Spain
No full textEmprendimiento social como una fuerza para las sociedades más inclusivas e innovadoras: Un análisis y elaboración de perfiles de las empresas con fines sociales en España
No full textEmpowering the marginalized: il ruolo delle imprese ibride ad impatto sociale
No full textIn this work, we aim to tackle the challenge of empowering all those who are typically excluded from freely participating in the market, and who, as a result, find themselves marginalized and disadvantaged. Our goal is to enable them to participate freely in market dynamics that generate economic value, thereby facilitating personal development. We will conceptualize this challenge as “the empowerment of the marginalized.
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice, by James E. Austin and M. May Seitanidi. San Francisco: John Wiley and Sons, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1118531136
No full textStrategie competitive in contesti di convergenza tecnologica e di mercato: il caso Apple iTunes Music Store
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