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STRATEGIA D'IMPRESA
No full textIL LIBRO E' STATO FORNISCE UNA EFFICACE GUIDA PER CHI INTENDA APPROFONDIRE GLI STUDI IN TEMA DI STRATEGIA DI IMPRESA. E' STATO SCRITTO CON L'OBIETTIVO DI COPRIRE TUTTE LE AREE DI INTERESSE PRIVILEGIANDO UN APPROCCIO STRUTTURATO CHE COMPENDIA TEOSIRA, EVIDENZE EMPIRICHE E CASI PRATIC
Le scelte di localizzazione delle attività a valore aggiunto nei settori high tech. Il caso del pharma biotech in Italia
No full textIl contributo proposto si inquadra nel più vasto filone di ricerca relativo alla riconfigurazione delle attività della catena del valore alla scala internazionale. Tale tematica è divenuta di sempre più pressante attualità a seguito dei processi dell’effetto combinato dell’avvento della globalizzazione - che ha portato ad una sempre più spinta integrazione dei mercati di sbocco – e dell’adozione di architetture reticolari alla scala internazionale (a titolo esemplificativo, si veda la tabella 1 in cui si sono riassunti i principali contributi di riferimento).
Nell’ambito di tale filone di ricerca, si propone di concentrare l’attenzione sul settore delle biotecnologie, che si caratterizza per una serie di elementi che impattano significativamente sia sul comportamento strategico degli attori economici in esso operanti sia sui sistemi economici dei paesi in cui questi operano
Serial entrepreneurship and born-global new ventures. A case study.
No full textBased on a longitudinal case study, we aim to understand how serial entrepreneurs can foster the development of born-global ventures. We consider a born-global start-up as the final stage of the learning process for a serial entrepreneur, advancing propositions regarding the importance of prior entrepreneurial experience for born-global venture creation and growth. We suggest that the serial entrepreneur’s previous entrepreneurial experiences could substitute for the lack of knowledge, opportunity recognition and social networks of a born-global start-up. Thus, we recognize the necessity of a shift in the unit of analysis, from born-global start-up to global serial entrepreneur, suggesting to follow a dynamic approach when the born-global start-up issue is discussed
The Role of Failure in the Entrepreneurial Process: A Systematic Literature Review
Full text linkFailure is a crucial event that can occur at any time during the entrepreneurial/start-up process. Understanding what influences the failure or survival of new ventures is increasingly attracting the interest of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, mainly because of the role that startups play in innovation. Studying failure events presents a series of challenges that scholars should bear in mind when approaching this topic, starting from the definition of terms to the lack of data to analyze such events. The literature on business failures is scattered among different fields of research and lacks a comprehensive framework. We address this gap performing a systematic literature review. 74 papers focusing on new ventures’ failure have been reviewed and analyzed to identify the main causes of failure. In doing so, we identify four main categories of causes of new venture failure. Namely, I) resources, with a specific focus on human and financial capital; II) strategic/managerial decisions; III) product-related aspects; and IV) contextual/environmental-related issues. By providing an up-to-date systematization of recently published contributions on the topic, we aim to provide practical implications for entrepreneurs/practitioners and future research directions to researchers in the field
Serial entrepreneurship and born-global new-ventures. A case
No full textDuring the last decade in a lot of different countries a new type of firms - Born Globals firms (BGs) or International New Ventures (INVs) - have emerged in opposition to the traditional view of internationalization. BGs address the internationalization issue at the early stage, targeting foreign markets since inception. This model has been increasingly attracting the attention of international business researchers (Jolly et al. 1991; Oviatt et al. 1991; Knight & Cavusgil 1996; Madsen & Servais 1997; Autio et al. 2000; Knight & Cavusgil 2005). Even if the born global phenomenon has been studied according to different perspectives of analysis, the lack of a clear conceptualization of BGs makes it difficult to perform a valid comparative empirical research (Rialp et al., 2005), since earlier research emphasized only the importance of understanding the internationalisation process and the evolution of BGs over time (Jones, Coviello, 2005). In this paper, we prefer to follow an international entrepreneurship (IE) approach in discussing the topic concerning born global firms (Acs, Dana, Jones, 2003). The development of IE as a field of research is likely to be particularly challenging both theoretically and methodologically due to its inherent complexity, since it demands a difficult integration of perspectives from international business literature and entrepreneurship theory, both of which are already strongly multidisciplinary. In fact, while the majority of empirical studies on international entrepreneurship are conducted in mature, low-tech industries with low entry barriers (Rarep, 2005), born global firms are normally conceptualized as small and technology oriented companies (Rialp et al., 2005). Moreover, as shown in a lot of recent studies (Coviello, Jones, 2004; Harris, Wheeler, 2004) the McDougall and Oviatt’s (2000) definition of IE is not specific to small new firms at early stages in the internationalization process, but rather it enables research emphasis to be placed on the international activities of all firms, regardless of age, size or industrial sector. At the same time, in the IE field, several authors (Shane, Venkataraman, 2000; Zahra et al., 1999) have noted both the scarcity of holistic and multidisciplinary theoretical approaches to born global phenomenon and the absence of an international business theory able to fully explain the development of international entrepreneurship. While entrepreneur and entrepreneurial behaviour is the common denominator of born global research, however the individual entrepreneur is not studied in depth (Andersson and Evangelista, 2006).
This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of born global start-ups focusing on the natural born entrepreneur. In this way, the lack of a durable previous international experience of born global start-ups doesn’t exclude that this process of learning may occur at the individual level. Thus, in this paper we specifically focus on (individual) habitual entrepreneurs so to empirically verify if habitual entrepreneurs possess some peculiar competences able to assure to the start-ups that they establish a consolidated multinational presence. In other words, our interest for born natural entrepreneur allows us to analyse the born global start-up as a stage in the learning process of entrepreneur. The research objective is to investigate this research problem at one specific entrepreneurial context and, based on the findings, develop a potential interpretative framework for testing at subsequent contexts of analysis. More in detail, this paper reports on findings of a detailed longitudinal study at one born multinational start-up, Funambol, founded by an habitual entrepreneur
Location of value added activities in hi-tech industries. The case of pharma-biotech firms in Italy
No full textLocation of value added activities in hi-tech industries. The case of pharma-biotech firms in Italy
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