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The balance between exploitation and exploration: leveraging on bundles of organizational solutions
No full textThis paper aims to contribute to this literature by disentangling the specific set of organizational solutions that support firms in achieving exploration and exploitation. The research question we aim to answer is the following: which bundles of organizational solutions impact on both exploration and exploitation orientations?
To address this research question a qualitative approach was chosen (Yin, 1994). A multiple case study was carried out across four medium enterprises located in Northeast Italy. The firms analyzed are leading companies in their sectors and in order to sustain their competitiveness they are refocusing the innovation
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process from an efficiency-driven approach towards one which is more based on experimentation activities. Consequently these cases represent an appropriate setting to investigate the impact of an extensive set of organizational solutions on exploration and exploitation orientations
Innovation, complementarity and performance in micro/small enterprises
No full textThis paper aims to give an empirical contribution to the debate on new organizational forms by means of an analysis of the organizational evolution of not yet well analysed set of firms, micro/small enterprises and suggests a system of measurement which is linked to the literature on complementarity (Milgrom and Roberts 1990).
The paper, by means of a survey on a significant sample of 147 Italian micro/small firms, investigates firstly the diffusion of a set of organisational and technological innovations.
Secondly the question was asked whether in micro/small firms entrepreneurs invest in only one type of innovation or if there is a simultaneous adoption of complementary innovations.
Finally the relationship between the adoption of a set of complementary innovations in micro/small firms and the dynamic of firm performance (turnover and product innovation) has been investigated
EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION: DO ACTUAL BEHAVIORS MATCH INDIVIDUALS’ PERCEPTIONS?
No full textResearch on contextual ambidexterity assumes that an organization’s capacity to pursue simultaneouslyexploration and exploitation leverages on organizational solutions encouraging a balance between thesetwo learning orientations. However, still limited attention has been devoted to the investigation ofcontextual ambidexterity at the individual level of analysis. Starting from this gap, this paper addresses thefollowing research questions: How do individuals perceive the learning orientation requested to them bytheir job? Do individuals’ behaviors match their perceived orientation? How does thematching/mismatching between perceptions and behaviors can be explained? To address these issues amultiple case study across 16 managers and assistants of R&D and Sales units of four mediumenterprises located in Northeast Italy was carried out. Our findings show that the perceptions and theactual behaviors, as component of the personal ambidexterity, are distinct and independent. Perceivedand actual orientations emerge in various different combinations creating a mismatch at individual level aswell as some inconsistencies between different hierarchical levels and business units. The determinants ofthese inconsistencies can be explained by considering the individuals’ working experiences, their expertise and motivation and also the decisions and changes in the firm processes in which individualshave been involved
Application of photovoltaic technologies on the roofs of buildings with GIS software = L’applicazione delle tecnologie fotovoltaiche integrate sulle coperture degli edifici con software GIS
No full textPer pianificare l’utilizzo di tecnologie che sfruttano energia rinnovabile su un territorio, in particolare quelle che riguarda il solare, si possono utilizzare i software GIS (Sistemi Informativi Geografici) che consentono di analizzare e rappresentare un dato geo-riferito.
In questo studio è stato approfondito il tema dell’utilizzo delle tecnologie fotovoltaiche negli ambienti urbani considerando le ombre portate dall’orografia del territorio e anche quelle del contesto costruito; in particolare sono state valutate le potenzialità delle applicazioni integrate sulle coperture degli edifici. L’analisi si è basata su: l’utilizzo di sistemi informativi geografici e dati LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging), l’impiego di software per la ricostruzione tridimensionale degli edifici e per la valutazione dell’irradiazione solare incidente (Ecotect versione 5.5).
Dopo una breve descrizione di alcune applicazioni GIS sul fotovoltaico effettuate in Italia e nel mondo, in questo lavoro viene presentata una metodologia di calcolo che consente la valutazione del potenziale fotovoltaico sulle coperture degli edifici con la definizione di un metodo semplificato che è stato verificato sulla base di un monitoraggio effettuato dalla Provincia di Torino.
Questo lavoro è scaturito da uno stage che ha visto la collaborazione tra il Politecnico di Torino e il CSI Piemonte
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Leveraging on projects to strategically organize open innovation
No full textThe chapter proposes a project-based view on open innovation in contexts where knowledge is dispersed and the locus of innovation does not reside inside a single organization. After a review of studies on the organization of innovative labour and the role of new product development projects, the chapter shows that a main gap in this literature is the underestimation of the project-level of analysis.
The chapter discusses how innovative projects could be conceived as a strategic site where the organization of the external network of knowledge sources takes place.
It analyzes the main factors explaining firms’ propensity to design open innovation project-by-project. Adopting a contingency approach, it reviews recent research on the project features affecting inbound choices in innovative organization and on the relation between project choices and the knowledge-base of the firm. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of the chapters of the book and how they address some key theoretical and empirical open issues
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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