Il contratto di rete: caratteristiche, genesi ed efficacia dello strumento

Il primo volume della nostra nuova collana è stato pubblicato!

Introduzione by Lisa Balzarin, Anna Moretti e Anna Cabigiosu

Capitolo 1: Il contratto di rete: inquadramento teorico negli studi manageriali, by Anna Moretti e Francesco Zirpoli

Capitolo 2: Il coordinamento organizzativo nei contratti in rete, by Anna Comacchio e Elena Bruni

Capitolo 3: Leadership e imprenditorialita nel processo di aggregazione delle imprese, by Vladi Finotto

Capitolo 4: La similarita nei contratti di rete, by Lisa Balzarin e Stefano Li Pira

Capitolo 5: La contrattazione collettiva nella rete di imprese: spunti per una efficace implementazione, by Gaetano Zilio Grandi e Giuseppe Antonio Recchia

Capitolo 6: Il contratto di rete in Italia: uno sguardo d’insieme, by Lisa Balzarin e Anna Cabigiosu

Capitolo 7: Le relazioni banche – reti, by Antonio Proto

Capitolo 8: Reti di imprese, contratti di rete e pubblica amministrazione, by Salvatore Russo

Capitolo 9: I contratti di rete del settore agroalimentare, by Christine Mauracher

Considerazioni conclusive: studiare le reti d’impresa come opportunita di sviluppo e competitivita, by Anna Cabigiosu e Anna Moretti

The Network Organization A Governance Perspective on Structure, Dynamics and Performance

New book by Anna Moretti

This book explores the basic traits of inter-organizational networks, examining the interplay between structure, dynamics, and performance from a governance perspective. The book assumes a novel theoretical angle based on the interpretation of networks as multiple systems, and advances the theory in the realm of network effectiveness and failure. Composed of two parts, theoretical and empirical, The Network Organization clarifies the literature on networks, offering a systematic review, and provides a new perspective on their integration with other streams of research focusing on under-studied issues such as agency, micro-dynamics, and network effectiveness. The second part proposes the analysis of the tourism destination of Venice, with a specific focus on the network between the Venice Film Festival, the hospitality system, and the local institutions. By exploring the pervasion of networks in modern social and economic life, this book will be valuable to students, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.

http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319520926#otherversion=9783319520933

http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319520926#otherversion=9783319520933

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Dynamic patterns in similarity-based cooperation: an agent-based investigation

by Caterina Cruciani, Anna Moretti, and Paolo Pellizzari

Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, First Online: 28 April 2015

DOI: 10.1007/s11403-015-0155-7

 

Abstract

Understanding what motivates and fosters collective actions has major implications in the governance and management of organizations, in the regulation and design of public policies, and has long attracted the interests of scholars and practitioners in business and economics. This paper deals with how groups of agents emerge in a dynamic contest characterized by lack of formal structure and uncertainty regarding the possible individual outcomes, focusing on the features of the cooperators and on the dynamics emerging among them. Through the development of a stylized agent-based model we start by showing how similarity in values can be a successful driver for cooperation but are also able to highlight the limits of such process, by looking at how and how much agents cooperate with similar others. A second-version of the model, where memory of past interactions has a role, introduces further dynamics and is able to create successful and relatively stable groups.

Successive changes in leadership in the worldwide mobile phone industry: The role of windows of opportunity and firms’ competitive action

by Claudio Giachetti and Gianluca Marchi

Research Policy, Published online before print October 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/00487333

We take a historical perspective to gain insight into the determinants of changes in industrial leadership in the global mobile phone industry from the beginning of the 1980s to 2012. The theoretical foundation of our analysis is (a) the concept of ‘windows of opportunity’ proposed by industry evolution studies, i.e. changes in the technological, regulatory and consumer demand environment offering latecomers the opportunity to overtake leading rivals, and (b) the concept of ‘action aggressiveness’ proposed by the competitive dynamics literature, i.e. the extent to which a firm forcefully takes a large number and a wide variety of actions to outperform its competitors. We show that the potential for leadership changes is greater for firms that are able to undertake ‘aggressive’ competitive actions at the time when ‘significant’ windows of opportunity are open. In particular, we analyze the determinants of two leadership changes: (1) in the second half of the 1990s, when the US giant Motorola lost its number one position, dethroned by its Finnish competitor Nokia; and (2) in the first half of the 2010s, when Samsung of South Korea caught up with Nokia.

Measuring Modularity: Engineering and Management Effects of Different Approaches

by Anna Cabigiosu and Arnaldo Camuffo

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Published online before print Novembre 2016

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7737009/

While a variety of “product” modularity measures have been proposed and empirically used, little comparative research has been conducted on the characteristics and efficacy of such measures. This study explores how the use of diverse modularity measures affects the analysis of the “mirroring” hypothesis. Particularly, this study analyzes the relationship between “product” modularity measures and the degree of: 1) buyer–supplier integration in new product development; 2) supply chain configuration. The empirical results suggest which of the analyzed measures of modularity are preferable, question the overall utility of such measures to really understand the organizational implications of complex technological systems, and point to alternative measurement approaches.

BY CA’ FOSCARI STUDENTS

We welcome the new section of IOS blog titled “By Ca’ Foscari students” reach of news and food for thought about innovation and strategy in multiple fields: robotics, big data, Internet of things, cyber security, sharing economy, augmented reality and may others! Soon we will also add original articles by our students.

Best papers of the Department of Management

Congratulations to our colleagues Alessandra Perri, Marco Tolotti and Stefania Funari that received the Department Prize for the best research products 2015.

Our members Marco Tolotti and Stefania Funari received this special mention for these articles:

Marco, Corazza; Stefania, Funari; Riccardo, Gusso An evolutionary approach to preference disaggregation in a MURAME-based creditworthiness problem in APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING, vol. 29, pp. 110-121, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494614006292

Pellizzari, Paolo; Sartori, Elena; Tolotti, Marco OPTIMAL POLICIES IN TWO-STEP BINARY GAMES UNDER SOCIAL PRESSURE AND LIMITED RESOURCES in ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEM, vol. 18, pp. 1550020, http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0219525915500204

 

Red queen competitive imitation in the UK mobile phone industry

by Claudio Giachetti, Joseph Lampel and Stefano Li Pira

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, vol. Published online, http://amj.aom.org/content/early/2016/08/01/amj.2015.0295

This paper uses Red Queen competition theory to examine competitive imitation. We conceptualize imitative actions by a focal firm and their rivals along two dimensions: imitation scope, which describes the extent to which a firm imitates a wide range (as opposed to a narrow range) of new product technologies introduced by rivals, and imitation speed, namely the pace at which it imitates these technologies. We argue that focal firm imitation scope and imitation speed drive performance, as well as imitation scope and speed decisions by rivals, which in turn influence the focal firm performance. We also argue that the impact of this self-reinforcing Red Queen process on firms’ actions and performance is contingent on levels of product technology heterogeneity – defined as the extent to which the industry has multiple designs resulting in product variety. We test our hypotheses using imitative actions by mobile phone vendors and their sales performance in the UK from 1997 to 2008.