Incumbent companies sometimes innovate and attempt to revitalise old technology-based products, in decline after technological change, by improvements of their technical performance and/or extensions of their lifetime into the market. The name of this innovation approach is "sailing ship...

<i> Postfordismo e terziario: il caso di una impresa di comunicazione a rete</i> (di Francesco Schiavone) - ABSTRACT: Il postfordismo e la specializzazione flessibile sono da almeno un venten-nio fra i principali temi dell’economia d’impresa. Sviluppatisi in seno all’analisi sulle imprese...

Il rapido cambiamento tecnologico, di fatto caratterizzante tutti i settori industriali dell’economia odierna, sembra essere, potenzialmente, un fattore determinante per l’attivazione della <i>user innovation</i> in alcuni gruppi sociali. Il presente studio ambisce ad investigare il fenomeno della...</i>

Il paper propone un'integrazione metodologica tra la teoria Williamsoniana dei costi di trnasazione e la Resource-based View nello studio delle problematiche relative alla governance nelle reti esterne di imprese, che porti all'utilizzo di una metodologia di ricerca bifronte; dopo un'introduzione...

One of the best known features of the Italian entrepreneurial system is undoubtedly the industrial district, a network of small and medium size enterprises; the object of this survey is to study the integration between the strategic network, identified by the relationship between the companies...

<em>The Growth Strategies of the European Electricity Firms after Liberalisation</em> - The paper stresses how the recent directives of European Commission (aimed at liberalising the European electricity industry) affected the growth strategies of the main European electricity companies during the last...

The paper underlines the division of labour principle for understanding the development of the entrepreneurial process within a social network; the principal background premise is that the two crucial factors affecting the entrepreneur when he is creating a new business are his previous...

The paper underlines the division of labour principle for understanding the development of the entrepreneurial process within a social network; the principal background premise is that the two crucial factors affecting the entrepreneur when he is creating a new business are his previous...