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How to Improve Competitiveness of Tourism Destinations by Data Driven Reputation Management
No full textPublic control and strategic governance in state-owned public utilities: empirical evidence from Italian listed firms
No full textThe present research investigates the governance of Italian public utilities whose top management is engaged in balancing the conflicting pressures of the business model and the social functions. In this regard, public control appears to influence only the form of ownership structure. Conversely, the nature of the public management mechanisms does appear to substantially affect the management side of these organizations.
With reference to and in line with the best practices, as acknowledged by international literature on corporate governance, interesting predictions emerge, in relation to the degree of ownership concentration and dominance exercised by the government within the company. Corporate governance and board composition are further found to represent good proxies of the level of public management discretion in the decision-making process.
The research sheds light on the subject of managing conflicting demands, top management’s autonomy and the preservation of the significant role of the public as well, in relation to public utilities organisations. It is an original study with Italy in its focus, but with international significance, which reframes managerial debates concerning privatization and public utilities functioning
Italian Craft Firms Between Digital Manufacturing, Open Innovation, and Servitization
No full textThis paper focuses on craft firms that have contributed to the creation of a
strong image of Italy in the world and encouraged the development of industrial
districts and small firms in the country over the past decades. However, ongoing
economic, technological, social, and cultural changes in recent years have made it difficult for these firms to survive: since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008 until 2015, almost 94,400 craft workshops have closed, which amounts to a 7.26 % rate of decrease. In order to face these challenges, craft entrepreneurs must be innovative and review the ways in which they provide value to customers. By means of a qualitative explorative analysis, this study aims to analyze recent strategic directions undertaken by some Italian craft firms and identify the opportunities derived from them. It highlights three directions in particular: (1) to embrace the use of digital technologies, rather than viewing them as a threat to the firm’s future, (2) to involve
customers in the design and production processes and expand the firm’s network, and (3) to offer a wide range of services in relation to their products. Following all three of these strategic paths will help craft firms to survive and increase their competitive advantage by capturing opportunities offered by new technologies and new ways to produce. This paper concludes that mixing ancient and digital knowledge in an open context of collaboration will allow craft entrepreneurs to positively look to the future
Comparing supply chain risks for multiple product categories with cognitive mapping and Analytic Hierarchy Process
No full textThe risk management framework includes the practice of keeping safety stocks and safety lead time buffers. However, in today's high-tech and highly globalized world where competition is so fierce and paramount that managing and mitigating the risk by creating a more resilient supply chain has become indispensable for any organization. Assessing and managing the supply chain risks become very important in this context and one such risk assessing tool is Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP supports managers in identifying the risk indicators, assessing the impact of undesired events and the varied cause and effect relationships along the chain, and thus prioritizing the objectives of the supply chain, hence arriving at the selection of the best supplier from various alternatives. Thus, the objective of this paper is to identify and assess supply chain risk across multiple product categories using cognitive maps and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodolog
Humanoid robot adoption and labour productivity: a perspective on ambidextrous product innovation routines
No full textThe increasing presence of humanoid robot adoption has generated a change in explorative and exploitative routines. If the explorative routines provoke creativity and critical thinking which are delivered by humans, exploitative routines induce repetitive actions and mimic activities which are executed by humanoids. This has raised the need for a better balance between both routines involving an ambidextrous dynamic process. Here, product innovations play a relevant role in enhancing such balance and labour productivity. If, from the conceptual standpoint, this phenomenon has already been explored, there is still the need to empirically analyse it. We thus offer a meso-analysis of twenty-four countries located in Europe through the lens of the Service Robot Deployment (SRD) Model and the conceptual lens of organizational ambidexterity. By a regression methodology, the results show that humanoid robot adoption is still not affecting labour productivity which, by contrast, is positively and significantly connected with both radically new and marginally modified/unchanged production of innovative routines.
Our original contribution, which falls in the field of Human Resources Management and Artificial Intelligence, is that humanoids are not directly impacting labour productivity but indirectly through the generation of both new and marginally modified (or unchanged) routines. This situation persuades senior leaders to achieve a balance between exploitative and explorative product innovation routines
Humanoid robot adoption and labour productivity: a perspective on ambidextrous product innovation routines
No full textThe increasing presence of humanoid robot adoption has generated a change in explorative and exploitative routines. If the explorative routines provoke creativity and critical thinking which are delivered by humans, exploitative rou-tines induce repetitive actions and mimic activities which are executed by humanoids. This has raised the need for a better balance between both routines involving an ambi-dextrous dynamic process. Here, product innovations play a relevant role in enhancing such balance and labour pro-ductivity. If, from the conceptual standpoint, this phenom-enon has already been explored, there is still the need to empirically analyse it. We thus offer a meso-analysis of twenty-four countries located in Europe through the lens of the Service Robot Deployment (SRD) Model and the con-ceptual lens of organizational ambidexterity. By a regression methodology, the results show that humanoid robot adop-tion is still not affecting labour productivity which, by con-trast, is positively and significantly connected with both radically new and marginally modified/unchanged produc-tion of innovative routines.Our original contribution, which falls in the field of Human Resources Management and Artificial Intelligence, is that humanoids are not directly impacting labour productivity but indirectly through the generation of both new and mar-ginally modified (or unchanged) routines. This situation per-suades senior leaders to achieve a balance between exploitative and explorative product innovation routines
Culture 4.0. The role of digital innovation in cultural and Creative industries development
No full textIndustry 4.0 is increasingly at the centre of managers' agendas but despite efforts, it still represents a chimera for many areas, curbed by the lack of a culture of innovation, operational vision and digital leadership, very confused about actual return on digital investments. The main development procedures of such stage are for smart manufacturing, i.e. the total digitization of industrial processes, integration and interconnection between different aspects of production and between departments and functions.
Focusing on the cultural industry, three are the main impacts emerging from the application of industry 4.0 processes could have on the cultural and tourist industry:
1. The first concerns the smart management of cultural industries, i.e. the digitization of engineering processes. The Conservation - both the preservation of tangible heritage through digital technologies and the preservation of digital cultural content - is perceived as a matter of paramount importance throughout the world, being so closely linked to the true essence of human culture.
2. The second, linked to Smart Conversation and Creative Enabling Technologies. In fact, the creative sphere applies cultural contents to areas of experience where other important goals exist: a design object can be very original, but at the same time, if it is a chair or laptop, it must be possible for the user to sit comfortably or process data quickly, ergonomically and effectively. From one hand, if it is true that the machines will replace most of the current work and tasks because they can do it better, faster and less resources (McKensey, 2017), on the other hand creativity is a singularity character of uniqueness for the value proposition that will take not only social and educational value but also economic value.
3. The third, relating to the close correlation between culture, creativity and the development of soft skills, which most of the professional figures in the future cannot do without (WEF, 2016). The World Economic Forum estimates that within a five-year period the most sought-after soft skills can change concretely. The first position will remain unchanged: to make it a master, even in 2020, will be the problem solving capability.
In a scenario dominated by new technologies, new products and new working methods, therefore, the entrepreneurial creativity seems to be a much appreciated benefit from the companies and HRM companies.
Finally, it not be overlooked that Italy is mainly composed by SMEs under a family control. For this reason, we do not have to be satisfied with some best practices, but we must act in a systematic way in Italy
From Sustainability coercion to Social Engagement: The turning role of Corporate Social Responsibility
Full text linkAs widely recognized, sustainability is a multi- and trans-disciplinary domain potentially able to influence actions, decisions, and behaviors at all the levels of socio-economic organizations. Reflecting upon the pervasive nature of sustainability domain, the paper proposes an overview about the evolutionary path of strategies and approaches for sustainability. Adopting a deductive approach, the main purpose of the paper is to underline in which ways the shifting from a coercive approach to a participatory approach in strategies for sustainability - made possible by the spread of Corporate Social Responsibility practices - has contributed to the emergence of sustainable innovation domain. The concept of Social Engagement in sustainability debate is proposed with the aim to underline that sustainable innovation is effectively possible only in the case in which all the levels of socio-economic organizations are engaged in the debate about sustainability and - as a consequence - they are effectively able to understand and promote the value of an innovation able to combine and satisfy society, economy, and environment needs
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