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Inequality and marginalisation: social innovation, social entrepreneurship and business model innovation: The common thread of the DRUID Summer Conference 2015
No full textNowadays societies face many societal challenges, among which increasing inequality and marginalisation. This paper uses this key to read the discussion undertaken during the DRUID Conference 2015 ‘Relevance of Innovation’, held at LUISS Business School (Rome, IT). We focus on the speeches, sessions, and debates that were hosted at the conference. We expand them and build on them to advance scholarly discussion on how social innovation, social entrepreneurship and business model innovation can be used to face inequality and marginalisation. The main idea we place at the centre of the discussion is empowerment of marginalised individuals by social innovation initiatives and social entrepreneurial ventures. Business model innovation is seen as instrumental to this, being a crucial tool to foster hybrid organisations and institutions able to merge the social and economic dimensions.Nowadays societies face many societal challenges, among which increasing inequality and marginalisation. This paper uses this key to read the discussion undertaken during the DRUID Conference 2015 ‘Relevance of Innovation’, held at LUISS Business School (Rome, IT). We focus on the speeches, sessions, and debates that were hosted at the conference. We expand them and build on them to advance scholarly discussion on how social innovation, social entrepreneurship and business model innovation can be used to face inequality and marginalisation. The main idea we place at the centre of the discussion is empowerment of marginalised individuals by social innovation initiatives and social entrepreneurial ventures. Business model innovation is seen as instrumental to this, being a crucial tool to foster hybrid organisations and institutions able to merge the social and economic dimensions
Creativity and the community Reflexivity and creation in the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community
No full textThe recent expansion of the processes through which knowledge is created has generated new networks, connecting a wider series of actors who compete, cooperate, and innovate together, both on the technical side, enhancing the features and functionality of the products, and on the “intangible�? or “symbolic�? side, creating the “sense�? assigned to the product by the consumers. This has raised questions on the categories we can use to understand knowledge creation in these networks and communities. What category should be used to analyze these processes without distorting their nature, i.e., keeping tied together the individual and the social interaction, the technical and the intangible sides of innovation?
Creativity and the community. Reflexivity and creation in the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community
No full textBeing for Profit, Non-profit, or Both? The Risk Advantage of Social Enterprises in the Face of Shocks
No full textSocial enterprises experience tensions triggered by the incorporation of both a commercial and a socio-environmental logic. This may threaten their functioning during ordinary times. Yet, in the face of shocks, their dual nature may prove an advantage compared to their for-profit and non-profit counterparts. Building on research on institutional logics and uncertainty, we theorize that these organizations, in view of the knowledge, resources, competencies and relations they possess in both economic and social domains, face less risk compared to for profit and non-profit organizations when shocks call them to deal with unexpected demands from both spheres. We believe such theorization could talk to literature on hybrid organizations and risk, on for-profit and non-profit organizational forms, and on ethical issues in the creation of social impac
INNOVAZIONE SIMBOLICA E COMUNITÀ DI CONSUMATORI
No full textL’articolo discute del ruolo dei consumatori e delle comunità di pratica nei processi di in- novazione delle imprese, mettendo in evidenza le dinamiche sociali connesse alla produ- zione e scambio di conoscenza entro le comunità. Rispetto all’attenzione data da studi e ricerche all’innovazione tecnologica, viene approfondita l’innovazione di natura simbolica e i processi creativi sottostanti legati alla sfera comunitaria.The paper discusses about the role of consumers and communities of practices in firms’ innovation processes, by emphasizing community-based social dynamics related to knowledge production and sharing. Despite the attention given by prior studies on techno- logical innovation, the paper is oriented to explore symbolic innovation and creativity pro- cesses linked to communities
Anti-counterfeiting strategy unfolded: A closer look to the case of a large multinational manufacturer
Full text linkResearch Summary: We examine in detail how one large mobile phone manufacturer develops its anti-counterfeit strategy and seizes counterfeit products on the market. We couple qualitative data (observations from 150 counterfeit sales points worldwide, two focus groups, a survey with 151 respondents, interviews with 90 informants) with econometric analysis of 3,333 fights the focal firm undertook against more than 2,000 counterfeiters in 75 countries over 6 years (2006–2011). We focus on firm's seizure of counterfeit products when consumers' safety is at risk. As the firm is more sensitive to product safety than counterfeiters, we found that the firm generally performs larger seizures when unsafe products are involved, but this is less true in the firm's main market, likely because higher profitability offers higher incentives to counterfeiters. Managerial Summary: In companies' fight against counterfeiters, product safety plays a pivotal role. We suggest that companies have a particularly high incentive to seize counterfeit products when the product carries potential safety risks, because the occurrence of safety issues seriously harms its reputation. This research explores the anti-counterfeit strategy undertaken by a large manufacturer operating in the market of mobile phones and in the market of ancillary products (e.g., batteries and chargers). Results show that larger seizures occur in the ancillary rather than in the mobile phone market because while authentic companies have high incentives to seize mobile phone and accessories, as both involve safety risks, counterfeiters have a greater incentive in the main market and thus put less effort in ancillary markets
MNC strategies to limit spillovers: How subsidiaries manage knowledge breadth to decrease spillovers
No full textThe aim of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the speed at which knowledge flows from foreign to domestic firms. The focus is not on whether a knowledge spillover occurs, but on the time an MNC subsidiary’s knowledge takes to spread in the surroundings. Filling the gap in the literature regarding spillover speed in International Business by means of the insights from Innovation Studies, with particular reference to the literature on search, we propose a conceptual model where the speed of local knowledge diffusion is influenced by the technology sourcing strategies of subsidiaries. We then test our model using a database covering 1394 US patents from foreign MNC subsidiaries in the semiconductors sector. We find that not only does the breadth of the set of subsidiary knowledge sources slow down local knowledge diffusion, but the delay is mainly related to the diversity of global and internal sources used by the subsidiary, hinting at strategies that MNCs can use to further protect their knowledg
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