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Il sistema impresa orientato alla gestione per processi: il Business Process Re-engineering
No full textHow Digital Technologies Enable Business Model Innovation in the Energy Sector: An Empirical Study of Italian Energy Service Companies
No full textThe evolution of digital technologies has been expanding the business opportunities that firms can tap by leveraging such technologies. Business model innovation triggered by digital technologies allows firms to extend the scope of products and services they offer and create new markets. This trend is particularly relevant in the energy sector. However, little is known about how actually energy firms' business models evolve because of the adoption of digital technologies. Therefore, this article aims at shedding light on the business model innovation process enabled by digital technologies in the energy sector. To this aim, eight Italian energy service companies that innovated their business model by adopting digital technologies are analyzed. The empirical analysis allows to spot an archetypal business models innovation process enabled by digital technologies in the energy sector. The study contributes to the literature on business model and business model innovation by highlighting how digital technologies may promote the evolution of business models and by spotting an archetypal business models innovation process that can be implemented accordingly. It also contributes to the emerging literature on digital transformation, by showing how digital technologies can be exploited by energy firms to improve their value creation, delivery, and appropriation mechanisms
Transferring Knowledge through Cross-Border Communities of Practice
No full textThe aim of this chapter is to explore the use of Cross –Border Communities of Practice (CCoP) as
way for managing knowledge in a global socio-economic environment, mainly referring to the rising
economies. In doing so, some important issues related to cross-border knowledge transfer have been
investigated, taking into account the impact that cultural diversities have on individuals’ propensity to
cooperate, as well as on their attitude to transfer and to share knowledge. The Authors explain the role
that Global Managers have as “cultural bridges” in multicultural teams, thus enabling the last ones’
transformation into a CCoP. With reference to both the opportunities and challenges that characterize
the rising economies, CCoP arises as the best suitable way to transfer knowledge at international level,
when firms from developed countries encounter firms from emerging countries
Il sistema impresa orientato alla gestione per processi: il Business Process Re-engineering
No full textHow Digital Technologies Enable Business Model Innovation in the Energy Sector: An Empirical Study of Italian Energy Service Companies
No full textThe evolution of digital technologies has been expanding the business opportunities that firms can tap by leveraging such technologies. Business model innovation triggered by digital technologies allows firms to extend the scope of products and services they offer and create new markets. This trend is particularly relevant in the energy sector. However, little is known about how actually energy firms’ business models evolve because of the adoption of digital technologies. Therefore, this article aims at shedding light on the business model innovation process enabled by digital technologies in the energy sector. To this aim, eight Italian energy service companies that innovated their business model by adopting digital technologies are analyzed. The empirical analysis allows to spot an archetypal business models innovation process enabled by digital technologies in the energy sector. The study contributes to the literature on business model and business model innovation by highlighting how digital technologies may promote the evolution of business models and by spotting an archetypal business models innovation process that can be implemented accordingly. It also contributes to the emerging literature on digital transformation, by showing how digital technologies can be exploited by energy firms to improve their value creation, delivery, and appropriation mechanisms
The influence of cultural dimensions on corporate social responsibility: reflections about Italian firms
No full textEnvironmental pollution, economic over-exploitation of natural resources, and growing social and economic inequalities have attracted academicians and practitioners’ interest on the role of firms as actors able to influence societal and environmental dynamics trough the economic flows. Since the preliminary definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provided by Robert Edward Freeman in 1984, a challenging debate has attracted multiple research streams in order to depict the role of firms in social, environmental, and economic balance for a sustainable development. With the aim to enrich the ongoing debate, the paper focuses the attention on the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions as a way for depicting elements and variables able to influence firms’ commitment in CSR strategies. Six propositions are formulized for investigating the relationships between firms’ commitment to CSR and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions from managerial point of view and they are discussed with reference to the Italian firms. Secondary data from Hofstede insight platform (https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/) are collected and discussed for tracing possible implications and future directions for researchers and practitioners interested in the domain of CSR in Italy
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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