Intangibles, such as corporate reputation, are increasingly considered the major source for value creation and company success. Given the importance of having a strong corporate reputation, new strategic and operational approaches are emerging to manage it, such as stakeholder-based practices....

The sustainable development and the global corporate responsibility have emerged recently as relevant factors both at a business level and with reference to the society in general. Global markets impose new and complex systems of corporate governance aimed at a generic retrieval of effectiveness...

The promotion of new approaches to the development of knowledge and the production of education services, which respect the Europe 2020 strategies, is the precondition for the economic development of the entire country, upholding the principles of inclusion and sustainability. The scarcity of...

In global markets, firms should be connected to a plurality of external actors to acquire knowledge for sustainable competitive advantage. Over the last decade, knowledge management scholars have highlighted the opportunity to acquire a wide spectrum of knowledge from clients, not limited to...

TIn today's global economy new opportunities for growth and development are opening up for businesses, particularly those of a limited size. Projecting one's area of activity onto the global markets was once seen as one of the many strategic options open to businesses, but today it has become a...

The machine tool industry has a leading role in the Italian manufacturing system, and it is between the few industrial branches in which Italy keeps an international primary level role, being the 4th world producer and the 3rd world exporter. The branch innovation process has a threefold hybrid...

In global markets a new typology of firm is emerging. Such new kind of firm has been defined second mover as it combines strategies of innovation and imitation. The purpose of this paper is to identify which external factors of network system positively influence the business performance of a...

In open markets where competition is strong, innovation loses its role of 'ideological hierarchy' over imitation; both have the common goal of maximising company profitability, with the constraint of optimising performance results in the very short term. With these objectives and result...

With globalisation, since the early 80's, the companies compete in open markets with articulated, widespread and highly interconnected organisations (business networks). The competitive upgrading imposed by global markets determines particular organisational and strategic priorities for...

Even prior to the recent financial and economic slowdown many enterprises had adopted Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies to improve their relationships with customers, who are becoming more and more sensible to ethical values. Recently, companies are increasingly promoting social...