Purpose of the paper: The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship dynamics of innovation networks in the business of High Technology applied to Cultural Goods (HTCG) in Tuscany, in order to analyze the relevance of the actors’ position and their centrality in the networks. The study contributes to the wide research strand...
Purpose of the paper: Italian firms are increasingly drawn to modify their own competitive positioning. Traditional network relations, such as industrial districts or subcontracting value chains, are not themselves sufficient to generate this repositioning, since they are not designed to achieve a strategic goal, but tend to emerge spontaneously. We focus on an evolutionary path,...
While the management literature provides much evidence of the role of weak network ties in a variety of organizational outcomes, it has paid relatively little attention to examining the processes which lead to the emergence of such ties. In this paper we begin to fill this gap by theorizing and empirically testing to what extent,...
Per le piccole medie imprese (PMI) il contesto internazionale rappresenta una sfida da affrontare facendo leva sulla mobilitazione e sulla condivisione di risorse e competenze di altri attori. Questo subordinato alla definizione di relazioni strategiche che incidano sulla struttura della filiera, sia allinterno del sistema Paese dorigine, sia allestero. Tali considerazioni sono supportate da una...
Il saggio tratta del fenomeno delloutsourcing, oggi uno dei principali fattori di cambiamento nel mondo delle imprese. Gli interrogativi a cui si cercato di dare una risposta sono essenzialmente i seguenti: In che misura il ricorso alloutsourcing pusoddifare il crescente fabbisogno di flessibilitdelle imprese? Dove si stanno ricollocando le nuove frontiere delloutsourcing, cioi confini tra...
In una visione sistemica dellimpresa, si ritiene che il processo di Supply Chain Management (SCM) rappresenti la spina dorsale dellazienda e che una efficace ed efficiente gestione della catena di fornitura, dal punto di vista organizzativo e manageriale, sia un requisito essenziale nel conseguimento del miglior livello di servizio per il cliente, da cui dipende...
The European production system is characterised by small and medium enterprises for which the environment of reference is the local system rather than a world wide one. Moreover, two matters should assume a particular importance: cultural characteristics of subjects (which are to be found inside and outside the organisation) and the local community that creates...
This paper underlines the close relationship between knowledge and networks, even going so far as to argue for the importance of organising the production of knowledge in a network, and stressing the fact that networks are the ideal models for the development of knowledge itself. The paper, after pausing to consider the salient points concerning...
This work aims at analyzing the strategic dimension of industry-trade relationships, where it is to the advantage of both industry and trade to replace traditional market relations with cooperation. After a review of the existing literature, the various ways industry and trade can manage their relations are considered and the conditions in which such collaboration...
