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Dalla funzione sociale all'etica ed alla responsabilità sociale dell'impresa. Il pensiero di Sergio Sciarelli
No full textUn'analisi dell'evoluzione del pensiero sui temi dell'etica e della responsabilità sociale d'impres
Exploring entrepreneurial characteristics, motivations and behaviours in equity crowdfunding: some evidence from Italy
No full texturpose: This study explores entrepreneurial decision-making in the equity crowdfunding (ECF) context, and it aims to shed some light on the relationship among three aspects: entrepreneurial characteristics (i.e. entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial self-efficacy), entrepreneurial motivations (i.e. promotion, improvement of networking and acquisition of product and market knowledge) and entrepreneurial behaviours (i.e. campaign characteristics in terms of communication and offerings). Design/methodology/approach: The hypotheses testing and analysis were conducted using the partial least squares approach to structural equation modelling, and data were collected from the overall population of Italian ECF platforms. Findings: Our results highlight that entrepreneurial characteristics may be central in ECF because of their significant impact on some motivation entrepreneurs have to adopt ECF, which in turn have an impact on meaningful campaign characteristics that can influence ECF performance. Originality/value: The current literature is mainly focused on investors' decisions, while a neglected perspective until now has been that of entrepreneurs. This study is among the first to focus on entrepreneurs in the ECF context, and, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first study to investigate the entrepreneurial decision-making process. The added value of this research lies in the analysis of the entrepreneurial aspects underlying entrepreneurial decisions to use ECF. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited
Network Approach and Stakeholder Management
Full text linkRecent economic crises show that enterprises cannot be managed focusing only on economic
values instead managers should acknowledge their own enterprises' responsibilities toward the
society as a whole. Stakeholder Management Theory can help managers accomplishing this very
same daunting task. This theory demands managers to reckon the reciprocal influences linking
other social actors to the enterprise activities and to understand the relative effects. While most
of the works in this theory has been geared towards defining, identifying and managing each
single dyadic relationship some other scholar have highlighted the need to focus on the
stakeholder network to correctly assess each stakeholder's role and to fully grasp the long term
effects enterprise's action will have.
In this paper after a review of the main topics in stakeholder management theory, we classify the
various approach to Stakeholder Management Theory to identify relevant theoretical
contributions and to highlight how the theoretical gap can be crossed using the tools of Social
Network Analysis and embracing the network approach to stakeholder management
La social network analysis per lo studio dell'innovazione nelle reti di imprese
Full text linkObiettivo del paper: Il contributo sviluppa un modello teorico per comprendere come l’analisi delle reti sociali, possa essere utilizzata nello studio delle dinamiche innovative all’interno delle reti di imprese.
Metodologia: Il modello teorico è stato sviluppato applicando elementi di metodo della social network analysis al sistema di competenze manageriali e risorse relazionali delle reti di imprese al fine di analizzarne l’impatto sui processi innovativi. Il modello di equazioni strutturali, tuttora in fase di verifica empirica, è stato rifinito attraverso un confronto preliminare con altri ricercatori che si occupano di queste tematiche.
Risultati: Nella fase attuale del progetto di ricerca, il risultato principale è dato dalla definizione del framework di analisi.
Limiti della ricerca: Il modello teorico è basato, in parte, sullo studio delle reti sociali e, quindi, ne eredita le principali limitazioni. In particolare il modello è indirizzato, prevalentemente, allo studio dell’innovazione nelle reti d’impresa strutturate e che operino per un fine riconosciuto e comune.
Implicazioni pratiche: Il modello può fornire una chiave di lettura dei fenomeni innovativi all’interno delle reti d’impresa, con particolare riferimento alle dinamiche relazionali all’interno dei distretti tecnologici.
Originalità del lavoro: Il modello è in fase di verifica su un Distretto Tecnologico in Campania nell’ambito di un progetto regionale di ricerca
Sustainability and stakeholder approach in Olivetti from 1943 to 1960: a lesson from the past
No full textPurpose of the paper: The sustainable enterprise focuses on its stakeholders’
interests. Today this perspective is a central one in the dialogue on enterprise goals and
on the nature of the firm but it was already clear in the past history of some enlightened
entrepreneurs like Adriano Olivetti. This important entrepreneur was able to balance
economic responsibility and social ones in his managerial model and he showed that the
pillars of sustainability, as we call them today, were internally coherent.
Methodology: We apply an interpretative framework (Carroll’s pyramid) to analyze
the entrepreneurial choices by Adriano Olivetti according to the various perspectives of
Corporate Social Responsibility. Our analysis is based upon Adriano Olivetti’s texts and
the transcriptions of his speeches, his biographies, and on interviews to managers that
were active during the years of Adriano Olivetti’s administration of the Olivetti Group
or later experienced the values left in the company after his untimely death.
Findings: This article highlights how their extraordinary experience has
demonstrated the full compatibility between social and economic responsibilities.
Moreover, the article proves that the various dimensions of corporate social responsibility
are tightly connected. Finally, it shows how good stakeholder management practices are
a successful strategy.Research Limits: The article’s main limitation is that it is mostly based on anecdotal
evidence and secondary sources.
Practical implications: The analytical framework we employ can be useful in
driving responsible management processes for modern managers and entrepreneurs.
Originality of the paper: This article proposes two modified versions of a classic
model on corporate social responsibility
Market-driven capabilities and strategic alliances to support toSustainable Development in Small Agricultural Enterprise
No full textIl paper presenta un'analisi sviluppata secondo i principi del MDM (Market-driven management) il valore delle competenze relazionali nelle aggregazioni di piccole imprese agricole italiane
Network Centrality and Homophily in Stakeholder Relationship Management: The Effects on a Social Enterprise’s Decision-Making Process
Full text linkManaging relationships with all the stakeholders is a central issue in Social Enterprises' management; these enterprises, operating across the faded boundary between for profit and not for profit sectors, overcome having limit scarce resources dotation trough relationships with other organizations in order to reach success in the society.
In our paper, we have studied the capability of this class of enterprises to create and sustain relationships on the basis of the concepts and principles of Stakeholder Theory, that according enterprises' survival capacity is linked to their manage ability those actors that affects or are affected by enterprise actions in their decision-making. Our empirical studies have focused on the social network, defined trough a snowballing process (degree = 3), insisting on a Social Cooperative in Naples with two world shops and one wholesale warehouse.
Each node in the Social Cooperative's egonetwork has been tested for two classical measures of Social Network Analysis (Wasserman & Faust, 1994; Scott, 1991): centrality and proximity. These tests have been later used to compare actors and to analyze if more central or more homophilous actors, those who share similar interests, are better able to influence the social cooperative.
Our paper highlights that homophily can better explain stakeholders' effects on the outcomes of strategic decision-making processe
Entrepreneurial Teams in Equity Crowdfunding
No full textEntrepreneurial teams (ETs) consist of at least two people who have various interests, such as financial, and a commitment to the future and success of a business. ETs play a crucial role in business development and contribute to build robust, resilient, and enduring businesses. They assume strategic importance in the context of equity crowdfunding (ECF), where they have significant effects in the three phases of ECF, namely, the precampaign, during the campaign, and postcampaign phases
Alliances and Sustainability in Agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises
No full textThe role and effects of small agricultural enterprises on sustainable development processes in
rural areas has been studied both in developing countries (Ruben, Slingerland & Nijhoff 2006;
Latouche 2007) and in developed ones (McCullough, Pingali & Stamoulis 2008; Tasch 2009).
Agricultural enterprises in developed countries have found to face several problems that drive
them towards a more intense, and often less sustainable, way of growing crops.
Maybe the most relevant of these problems is that these enterprises have to face in the modern
markets is derived from the increased centrality the modern big food retailers have in the food
supply chain. These distributors not only demand a stable and large supply of fresh, raw and
processed material but they ask producers to be able to esensure year-round availability in order
to stipulate contract with them (Reardon, Timmer & Berdegue 2008).
As small farmers cannot assure distributors on their ability to supply a large and continuous
stream of products by themselves they end up selling their crops to raw commodities' brokers
(Dolan & Humphrey 2002) that will further sell them down the value chain to distributors or to
industrial processors as well (Maloni & Brown 2006). In this way farmers become only small
players that have to operate in a more complex supply chain where they have a really small
negotiation power (King & Phumpiu 1996).
Sporlerder (1992) hold that agricultural small and medium enterprises have tried to address this
endemic weakness recurring to cooperation initiatives as a way to reduce risks while trying, at
the same time, to increase their negotiation power in dealing with the other tiers of the value
chain. The preferred partner for these initiatives have been other agricultural enterprises
(Farrell & Tozer 1996) but they have often involved even players in other stages of the value
chain (Holmlund & Fulton 1999). On the other hand the effect these alliances have on the
sustainability of agricultural practices have not been so obvious.
In this paper we try to deepen our understanding of the impact on sustainability each different
models of alliances by small and medium agricultural enterprises have using the Bioeconomy
model of sustainability (Passet 1996; Lethonen 2004), In particular we use the bioeconomy model to evaluate how the different agricultural alliances models are able to help these
entrepreneurs to manage their farms according to the hierarchical order of economical,
environmental and social dimensions developed in the model and how they can help them to
develop a set of competences and capabilities useful to create and sustain a competitive
advantage trough these alliances without dire effects on the other sustainability spheres.
In particular we open the paper discussing the differences between the Triple Bottom Line model
of sustainability (Elkington 1992, 1997) and the one proposed by Passet (1996). Later we focus
on the various impacts agricultural practices can have on sustainable development processes
both in the environmental sustainability sphere and in the social sustainability one. We follow on
presenting the various model of alliances agricultural enterprises and we classify them in six
different classes of alliances and agreements according to the kind of players participating in
them and how they can be used to change the existing structure of the value chain itself.
In this paper we use the lens of market-driven management (Shapiro 1988; Day 1994; Slater &
Narver 1999; Sciarelli, 2008) to build a theoretical frameworks to assess how the various
alliances model can help sustainable development processes.
In the end we adopt the multiple case study method to investigate what kinds of capabilities are
used in five successful Italian farmers’ alliances chosen according to a theoretical replication
model (Glaser & Strouss 1967; Yin, 1998) so to use the broadest set of experiences in this first
empirical test of the previously defined framework
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