Questo studio indaga se e come la comunicazione interna incide sullo sviluppo dei capitali intellettuale e relazionale, risorse critiche per raggiungere posizioni competitive difendibili. In particolare esplora come i contesti delle comunità di pratica rappresentino condizioni comunicazionali...

Lo studio propone l’analisi delle motivazioni d’acquisto di prodotti di seconda mano ed individua alcuni segmenti di domanda. Specificamente, si individuano quattro motivazioni principali (la motivazione edonistica, quella critica, quella basata sul collezionismo, quella economica) e tre...

To better understand and explain processes of economic transformation, this paper proposes a new concept, “innovative opportunities”. Our interpretation of opportunities is based on an understanding of innovation in a business context, stressing perception and uncertainty during the choices...

Web-enabled tools for ideation are becoming increasingly diffused in companies, but their true impact on innovation performance has been questioned. A factor that can explain some of the so far missing performance of these firm-internal systems for ideation is a lack of attention to the...

This paper examines the impact of social capital on the quality of ideas generated by individuals at work. Two dimensions of social capital are investigated—the degree (i.e. size) of individuals' networks of ideation relations, and the structural holes (i.e. gaps between nodes) of those...

This book addresses the critical issue of how and why European universities are changing and learning to compete. Anglo-Saxon universities particularly in the US, the UK and Australia have long been subject to, and responded to, market-based competition in higher education. The authors argue...

In this paper, we examine the impact of technology licensing-in on firm invention performance. Studying a sample of 266 licensees and matched non-licensees using a two-part model specification, we find that licensees are more likely to introduce inventions than their non-licensee counterparts....

The relative importance, and specific role, of academic entrepreneurship in society has long focused upon productivity in terms of the commercialisation of research. Public policy is an instrument used in different countries to stimulate start-up companies, including attempts to influence...