Progettazione organizzativa e implementazione delle strategie

Il capitolo affronta il tema della traduzione organizzativa delle strategie mediante la progettazione delle strutture e dei meccanismi operativi, con particolare riferimento alle strategie di corporate, a complemento di quanto descritto nei capitoli precedenti. Il raggiungimento dei risultati strategici auspicati, infatti, passa attraverso la conduzione delle strutture di responsabilit\ue0 e dei sistemi operativi che influenzano i comportamenti delle persone, orientando obiettivi e comportamenti individuali verso l\u2019efficienza e l\u2019efficacia. Alla formulazione delle strategie si deve pertanto affiancare una fase di definizione delle forme e dei meccanismi organizzativi, in grado di favorire l\u2019agevole assegnazione di sotto-obiettivi specifici (individuali e collettivi), il coordinamento tra persone e/o gruppi. Il capitolo presenta le soluzioni organizzative strumentali all'implementazione delle strategie, classificandole come verticali o orizzontali rispetto ai rapporti gerarchici che si vengono ad instaurare all'interno dell\u2019impresa

Exploring the links between idea generation and motivation

The adoption of specific idea management programs is becoming a strategic asset for organizations as they are increasingly trying to adopt specific organizational solutions to detect, fertilize, evaluate and promote new idea generation within and across their boundaries. The centrality of ideas generation is linked to its vital characteristic of being the main source for new products, services, processes, and drivers of change. This papers deals with the controversial role of general organizational setting and closely focuses on the rewards mechanisms that can further nurture creativity. We submit that understanding of the motivational drivers as well as acknowledging the importance of the organizational settings for individual learning behavior and idea generation is crucial in order to distill the links between idea generation and incentive structures. Consistently, we will conduct a theoretical understanding of the phenomenon in order to explain how new ideas can be nurtured through the adoption of a routine system aligned with general human resource management policy

New Idea Generation and Individual Motivation: A conceptual framework

The adoption of specific idea management programs is becoming a strategic asset for organizations as they are increasingly trying to adopt specific organizational solutions to detect, fertilize, evaluate and promote new idea generation within and across their boundaries. The centrality of the ideas generation is linked to its vital characteristic of being the main source for new products, services, processes, and drivers of change. This papers copes with the controversial role of the general organizational setting and closely focuses on the rewards mechanisms that could further nurture creativity. By formulating a set of propositions, the paper submits that the understanding of the motivational drivers and the organizational settings is paramount to distill the links between idea generation and incentive structures. This paper aims also to critically analyze and assess the impact of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on idea generation both at an individual and team level, and develop a framework within which explore the necessary change to be adopted by firms in managing the idea generation. What is new to the field is the recognition of the impact of the individual locus of control on creative performance. In this vein the paper sees its ultimate aim in uncovering the dynamics of individual and collective motivation related to creativity, considered as the main source for innovation. The paper concludes that new ideas could be nurtured through the adoption of routine system aligned with the companies human resource management policy

Networks, Clusters, and Small Worlds: Are they related?

In recent years, many industries have seen the rise of new inter-organizational forms. Among those new forms, organizational networks, clusters, and small worlds are attracting increasing interest, both in academic research and management practice. While economic theory considers such forms to be market failures, organization theory highlights their potential positive effects on the participating organizations. The organizational literature often uses the terms “networks”, “clusters”, and “small worlds” as synonymous even though there are differences between them. Moreover, given the sometimes-spontaneous emergence of these organizational forms, the extent to which they can be designed is not always clear. This article discusses the characteristics of networks, clusters, and small worlds; their operational parameters; and how these organizational forms are related. Further, we identify the role of design in these types of organizations

Localized networks and innovation in the life-science sector. Inter-cluster and intra-cluster dynamics

The paper investigates the impact of clusters, or localized networks involving industrial, academic and institutional players, in the life-science setting and aims to enrich the line of inquiry into cluster-based innovation by applying a social network analysis (SNA) approach. The cluster concept has been defined in ambiguous ways, corresponding to a large variety of spatial and organizational concrete configurations. We try to understand which of these configurations - i.e. what structural and nodal network characteristics of the cluster - are best suited to maximize the likelihood of clusters' innovation, from an intra-cluster and intercluster perspective. Quantitative methods are applied to relational and nodal data, using SNA and a regression model. The work sheds light on the factors that give rise to differential innovative outcomes across different clusters

The Impact of Outsourcing on Business Performance: An Empirical Analysis

Corporate decisions related to \u201cmake or buy\u201d have significantly changed over the last 20 years, since the rush towards concentration on core business of the 1980s has progressively lost grasp. Although long-term alliances and mega deals are replacing the existing spot contracts, both academic literature and managerial practices still lack appropriate models for coping with such decisions. As a consequence, the traditional accounting approach, extensively based on emerging costs and cost savings, seems to be less and less effective in the governance of such phenomena. On the other hand, the managerial literature still suffers significant gaps in modeling the relations between outsourcing and business performance. The attention paid to the subject in past decades has not been matched by the rigor in assessing the actual impact on business performance. This paper aims to fill some of the existing gaps by presenting an original empirical study based on the analysis of the impact of outsourcing decisions on business performance

Clusters and Innovation in the Life Sciences

The paper presents a conceptual framework which faces clusters, or localized networks, in the life-science domains. Amongst the various lenses, it focuses on the relationship -if any- interlacing structural settings (clusters) and innovation by referring to the broader field of network theory approach. The final aim of the paper is to contribute to the extant literature by creating a theoretical framework able to describe the effects of intra-cluster and inter-cluster structural and nodal network characteristics upon the clusters' innovative performance. The work sheds light on the factors influencing different innovative performance across different domains in the life-science field

Triple Helix and Innovation in the Life-Science Industry

The paper analyses the impact of the "TripleHelix" on innovation by assuming a network theoryapproach. The aim is to build a theoretical framework toimprove the understanding of the effect of clustersinvolving industrial, academic and institutional playerson the cluster's innovation. In particular the work isfocused on intra-cluster and inter-cluster structural andnodal characteristics in the life-science industry

THE MATRIX: TECHNO-HUMAN ACTORS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS AS A VEHICLE FOR IS RESEARCH DISSEMINATION

A variety of theoretical foundations and methodologies populate the IS field of research. At odds, there is a general uniformity in the ways of presenting the outcome of research. As a result, traditional empirical research structures and wording may inadequately conveys research results to the relevant audience or undermine the potential impact of IS studies. To overcome such limitations, alternative genres of research are sought. In our paper, we posit that albeit narratives and ethnographies have been somewhat applied in IS, a promising genre is offered by modern cinematography, as popular movies and their screenplays can offer an understandable and yet explicative frame to discuss IS related issues and to develop a sort of situated knowledge and critical observation. We offer an example of this representation analysing the information infrastructures and sensemaking processes by means of the popular movie “The Matrix”

Made in Carcere: Scaling a Social Enterprise Business Model

"Officina Creativa" (Creative Workshop) is a social enterprise giving female convicts a second change: to produce fashion accessories branded as \u201cMade in Carcere\u201d (Made in Jail). The case deals with the struggles and the challenges that the founder of the company had to deal with as the business started to flourish and gaining social legitimation. Some questions were crowding her mind: Was it really possible to further scale up the organization\u2019s operations and impact? And if so, how? And why growing was so difficult for the organization