Accesso dell’utenza elettrica al libero mercato: strumenti e barriere

In vista della completa liberalizzazione del settore elettrico italiano, l’articolo analizza le potenzialità di aggregazione dell’utenza domestica, discutendo la nascita di un soggetto regionale che, per volume e strumenti gestionali, possa garantire interessanti prospettive di risparmio rispetto alla tariffa amministrata, così come avviene da anni per categorie d’utenza già idonee ma molto meno parcellizzate

How Firms Deal with Discontinuous Innovation

Management literature has highlighted that under discontinuous conditions, incumbents have encountered serious obstacles in identifying, developing, and commercializing innovations as traditional and validated ‘good’ approaches are not adequate, or even counterproductive. It is therefore necessary to identify and deploy the practices that organisations could apply for enhancing their capacity to manage innovation under such complex environmental conditions. Based on a comprehensive literature review on search practices and on the empirical background of the Discontinuous Innovation Lab - a research network covering around 180 firms in 12 countries - a questionnaire has been submitted to a 500 high tech Italian firm sample (respondents are R&D directors or general managers). This chapter analyses in detail the relations between search practices, their antecedents (culture, organizational context, R&D expenditure, market turbulence, etc.), and performance (in terms of competences and innovation)