1,720,966 research outputs found
Innovation ecosystems and Corporate Social Responsibility: Which dynamic capabilities are needed?
Get PDFThis study investigates the dynamic capabilities (DCs) required by firms to implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies grounded in innovation ecosystems (IEs), an emerging approach that integrates multi-level, multi-actor collaboration for pursuing systemic impact. While IE-based CSR strategies hold significant potential, they involve managing the inherent complexities of IEs, in terms of actors, structures, relations, governance and strategies. To do so, firms need to have specific DCs, representing the skills, resources, and capacities to manage IE-based CSR strategies. Although the literature exploring DCs for sustainability strategies and ecosystem management is expanding, there are still no contributions addressing DCs needed for firms to manage IE-based CSR. To address this gap, we conceptually frame and then explore through a single case study analysis the micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities (MofDCs) useful in enacting IE-based CSR strategies. Our
analysis identifies fifteen critical sensing, seizing and reconfiguring MofDCs: many of them are novel compared to the literature, thus specific to IE-based CSR strategies. Also, we find out that these MofDCs play a pivotal role in facing the complexities characterizing such CSR approach. This study contributes to the growing literature at the intersection of CSR and IEs: by keeping the theoretical lens of DCs, it uncovers which skills, processes and resources firms need to enact CSR strategies grounded in IEs. Therefore, we contribute to the literature on DCs in sustainability-related settings, by focusing on sustainability strategies at the ecosystem-level. Practically, this study offers a framework for managers seeking to navigate the complexity of IE-based CSR strategies
Reliability and maintenance in high-power grid-connected photovoltaic systems: a survey of critical issues and failures
No full textIn the last ten years, after the first Italian feed-in-tariff, it has been observed that during the operation and maintenance of large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic systems, several unexpected problems may occur whose solution calls for specific strategies not initially planned at the design stage. Based on information gathered from more than 80 plants located in Italy, this work outlines the most widespread issues, the principal typologies of failures and unexpected events that occur in photovoltaic plants and tries to propose the best ways to solve them
L'individuazione di nuovi sbocchi per il legno post consumo attraverso la rete infrastrutturale di Rilegno (riutilizzare)
No full textHow to measure the innovation ecosystems' shared value? A balanced approach
Get PDFMeasuring shared value created in innovation ecosystems is increasingly relevant, but complex, given the multidimensional and multistakeholder nature of both these concepts. Therefore, despite academics and practitioners show high interest in this issue, the literature lacks the introduction and application of a tool that could be used to effectively measure the shared value created in innovation ecosystems. The present research inserts in this gap, by developing an integrated approach to design a shared value balanced scorecard for innovation ecosystems, grounding on the most recent literature both on innovation ecosystems performance measurement and on shared value creation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
- …
