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A caval donato... Aspetti relazionali nel crowdfunding di progetti culturali
No full textNell’ambito dell’ormai consolidata economia della conoscenza, un trend crescente riguarda fenomeni come il comportamento condiviso, i movimenti collettivi e l’impegno civico. Questi portano alla partecipazione di un numero crescente di attori a processi innovativi. In questo scenario si inserisce il crowdfunding, che può essere definito come l’impegno collettivo di molti individui che fanno rete e mettono a disposizione delle risorse finanziarie per sostenere gli sforzi intrapresi da altre persone o organizzazioni. In questo modo, i singoli progetti sono finanziati attraverso la raccolta di piccoli contributi da un gran numero di individui. Ciò consente agli innovatori e agli imprenditori di utilizzare le loro reti sociali per la raccolta di capitale (De Buysere, 2012). Storicamente, l’origine dei crowdfunding risale alla fine degli anni ’90, con i primi siti dedicati alle campagne di raccolta di fondi, soprattutto per scopi benefici, che utilizzavano la rete come strumento per espandere le campagne di raccolta fondi tradizionali. Oggi, il crowdfunding sta mostrando trend di crescita molto interessanti e offre una alternativa di finanziamento particolarmente importante per le industrie culturali e creative. Gli effetti del crowdfunding sulle organizzazioni sono importanti e vanno analizzati da una duplice prospettiva. In primo luogo, da una prospettiva volta verso l’interno delle organizzazioni interessate, un efficace utilizzo dello strumento non può prescindere dalla dotazione di competenze adeguate, che riguardano in particolar modo l’ambito digitale (Marchegiani, 2017a). In secondo luogo, secondo una prospettiva inter-organizzativa, questo metodo di raccolta di fondi può attivare relazioni che se ben gestite possono accelerare il finanziamento dei progetti aziendali, richiedendo nuovi comportamenti da parte dei diversi attori e un cambiamento importante nella relazione tra gli investitori e coloro che ricevono finanziamenti. In ogni caso, nell’ambito dei settori culturali e creativi e in particolar modo per le organizzazioni che gestiscono beni culturali, può essere necessario promuovere un vero e proprio cambiamento organizzativo
From Mecenatism to crowdfunding: engagement and identification in cultural-creative projects
No full textThe aim of the research is to analyse the behaviours of potential micro-investors and their willingness to participate in crowdfunding campaigns to sustain cultural and creative projects. The author proposes a quantitative approach, through a first exploratory survey and second an experimental design. This experiment designed alternative crowdfunding schemes and posted them online to solicit behaviours by the potential crowdfunders. The vast majority of respondents would contribute to projects with minimum amounts of crowdfunding, whatever the economic model adopted, or even not bring any financial contribution. This methodology puts in evidence that content variables and context variables are important. The results show that crowdfunding is a viable model to overcome the public expenditure liabilities related to the valorization of cultural heritage, given that specific conditions are satisfied. First, risk perceptions must be mitigated with full disclosure of information. Second, two clusters of potential crowdfunders can be engaged using different approaches
The two-sided coin of innovative mobile telecommunications market
No full textTechnological convergence, digitalization of
contents, alongside with the miniaturization of the
devices have rendered the mobile phone a powerful
instrument in the hand of the end-costumer. Moreover,
an even greater effect has been provoked in the supply
side of the market. In fact, operators urge to pay
attention to the market for complementary assets. We
argue in this paper that, in light of the recent
innovations, the mobile telecommunication market has
become a two-sided market, and that the mobile
network operators should reshape their competitive
behavior accordingly
Lenient performance evaluations cause less damage than severe ones
No full textBoth hurt employee performance, but severity errors impact the perception of organisational justice, write Lucia Marchegiani, Tommaso Reggiani and Matteo Rizzoll
Business Outcomes of Outsourcing
No full textThis chapter moves from the definitional setting reported in Chapter 1 (“Outsourcing, Offshoring and the structure of the firm”) and it is logically divided into two parts. The first part draws on some previous research conducted on antecedents, processes and outcomes of outsourcing, both in general (Marchegiani et al., 2012) and applied to specific activities of the value chain (Gospel & Sako, 2010; Giustiniano et. al., 2014). The second part will instead focus on some aspects related to organizational design (i.e. company’s boundaries, coordination mechanisms) and labour issues (i.e. human reactions: “angry orphans”, hidden costs and loss of competences and competitive advantage)
Information, Knowledge, Attention: ICTs and innovative organizations
No full textInformation and Communication Technologies are becoming more and more pervasive in the life of human beings and of business organizations. This book explores the evolution of this relation and study the effects of technological innovations on the strategic management and on the organization of firms. With a specific focus on the mobile telecommunication industry, the book sheds lights on the processes of value creation in an interconnected world. Phenomena like co-creation, coopetition, and crowdsourcing are explored and the evolution of business models is investigated with rigor
The Information Economy: Technological Innovation and Innovative Forms of Organizations
No full textThe first notion of Information Age can be traced back to the early 80’s, when the advent of more and more refined technological applications for the Information processing, alongside with social transformation, gave rise to the fancy that a complete new world was about to be born. Likewise, the whole arrays of Managerial Systems have been reshaped by the rise of the Information Economy. The Interconnected world (Watts, 2003) has become indeed a commonly used expression. This impels a deep investigation about what happens in a large complex system of interconnected agents
Innovazione e Internazionalizzazione: tendenze e legami nel processo di crescita dell’impresa
No full textL’apertura ai mercati internazionali e la propensione all’innovazione non sono più scelte strategiche opzionali per le imprese che competono nell’attuale contesto economico. In un momento di sviluppo economico integrato a livello mondiale, e con tassi di innovazione tecnologica e non crescenti a ritmi crescenti, le imprese devono dotarsi di risorse, competenze, conoscenze e reti di relazioni adatte a sostenere l’internazionalizzazione e l’innovazione. Questo imperativo strategico coinvolge sia imprese grandi che PMI; prescinde dai settori di riferimento e dalla localizzazione geografica. Nel dettaglio, il lavoro di ricerca qui presentato si focalizza sull’analisi dei legami di rinforzo esistenti fra i processi strategici di innovazione e internazionalizzazione, in modo da offrire un ampio approfondimento teorico ed empirico dei comportamenti competitivi e del posizionamento delle imprese laziali in merito all’innovazione e internazionalizzazione.The opening to international markets and the propensity to innovation are not an option for companies competing in today's economy. The integrated economic development worldwide, and the high rates of technological innovation require companies to acquire resources, skills, knowledge and networks of relationships suited to support the internationalization and innovation. This strategic imperative involves both large companies and SMEs, unrelated to the target sectors and geographical location. In detail, the research presented here focuses on the analysis of the existing ties between the strategic processes of innovation and internationalization, in order to provide a broad theoretical and empirical study of behavior and the competitive positioning of companies in relation to innovation and internationalization
“It’s the social network, baby: opportunities and threats for organizations involved in business social networks”,
No full textEngaging with the crowd: the potential impact of crowdfunding on cultural heritage valorization
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