Co-opetition models for governing professional football

In recent years, models for co-creating value in a business-to-business context have often been examined with the aim of studying the strategies implemented by and among organisations for competitive and co-operative purposes. The traditional concepts of competition and co-operation between businesses have now evolved, both in terms of the sector in which the businesses operate and in terms of the type of goods they produce. Many researchers have, in recent times, investigated the determinants that can influence the way in which the model of co-opetition can be applied to the football world. Research interest lies in the particular features of what makes a good football. In this paper, the aim is to conduct an analysis of the rules governing the “football system”, while also looking at the determinants of the demand function within football entertainment. This entails applying to football match management the co-opetition model, a recognised model that combines competition and co-operation with the view of creating and distributing value. It can, therefore, be said that, for a spectator, watching sport is an experience of high suspense, and this suspense, in turn, depends upon the degree of uncertainty in the outcome. It follows that the rules ensuring that both these elements can be satisfied are a fertile ground for co-operation between clubs, as it is in the interest of all stakeholders to offer increasingly more attractive football, in comparison with other competing products. Our end purpose is to understand how co-opetition can be achieved within professional football

Le politiche per l'innovazione in Sicilia: origini, attività e limitazioni

Policies for Innovation in Sicilia: Origins, Activities and Limits. This article examines origins, activities and limitations of the regional policies for fostering innovation conceived and implemented in Sicily during the last decade, by focusing on three relevant sectors of Sicilian economy: agrifood, industrial manufacturing and tourism. The study moves from the observation of the mounting relevance that innovation diffusion policy has assumed in regional territorial contexts, which have the greatest meaning in times of global-local dialectic (“glocalization”). In particular, the leading hypothesis is that for Sicilian micro, small and medium-sized firms operating in international settings, innovation is a key-strategy for surviving in markets that are increasingly wider, more deregulated and competitive

Unveiling the modal capability lifecycle: the coevolutionary foundations of the firm’s effectiveness in capturing strategic opportunities

Moving from the assumption that firm strategy is a fundamentally dynamic process of coevolutionary gap bridging between capability space and opportunity space (i.e., the strategy gap), this theoretical paper focuses on some of the factors leading to a successful closure of the strategy gap. In more detail, drawing on the received concept of Capability Lifecycle (CLC), it introduces the notion of Modal Capability Lifecycle (MCLC). The MCLC is defined as the statistical prevalence, for a generic firm ‘F’ in a given time period, of capabilities that are in a particular stage (i.e., 80% of the capabilities of the firm ‘F’ could be in a founding stage rather than in the maturity one). Accordingly, the study advances a novel connection between the Modal Capability Lifecycle for the generic firm ‘F’ and its effectiveness and success in closing the strategy gap given the opportunity space conditions and ultimately in constantly securing a collection of strategic opportunitie

Dynamic gap bridging and realized gap set development: the strategic role of the firm in the coevolution of capability space and opportunity space

Building on the hypothesis that firm strategy is fundamentally a dynamic process of gap bridging between capability space and opportunity space, this article investigates upon the strategic role of the firm in influencing the coevolution of the capability space and the opportunity space. In more detail, it contributes to strategy literature by introducing and discussing a typological distinction of a few dynamic gap sets (i.e., potential gap set, realized gap set, deliberate gap set, emergent gap set), which are deployed in a comprehensive conceptual framework underscoring the causes and consequences of the gap sets evolution. Additionally, the framework proposed is able to shed new light on the distinction between deliberate and emergent strategies and to reconnect them to the objectives of innovation and execution they are aimed to achieve. This intellectual effort proffers a way of synthesizing the dichotomy, already familiar to strategy analysis, between strategy formulation and strategy implementation and to enhance the hermeneutic and interpretive capacity of the conceptual backbone. In an integrative fashion, whereas strategy formulation refers to the firm’s mindful predisposition of the capabilities required to bridge the strategy gap between capabilities and opportunities, strategy implementation is concerned with the ‘real’ operational closure of the strategy gap

Between Self-Organizing and Accelerating Networks: Untangling the multilevel of strategic networks

This paper aims to detect the crucial determinants and processes that shape the emergence and evolution of interfirm network cognitive morphology. We pinpoint three relatively distinct but coexistent levels which define the fundamental structure of the network: the microsystemic (or the single firm) level; the mesosystemic (or the groups of firms within the network) level; and the macrosystemic (or the overarching network) level. Then, we integrate the complex system perspective (Morin, 1977; Prigogine and Stengers, 1984; Anderson, 1999) applied to networks with studies regarding theoretical models that elucidate network structuring and dynamics cultivated in the new “science of networks” (Barabási, 2002; Buchanan, 2002; Watts, 2003) in such a way to typify the mesosystemic level as an accelerating network and the macrosystemic level as a selforganizing network. Finally, we represent multilevel network cognitive dynamics by means of a three-level cognitive shape that we term ‘network cognitive domain’ and dissect the correspondent multilevel governance scope of the network cognitive sub-domains

Learning to synthesize contradictions: An Austrian Approach to Bridging Time Concepts in the Theory of the Firm

By analysing the implcit assumptions regarding time underlying the theories of the resource based firm, and analysing the views they portray, we propose a theoretical framework which allows to bridge balue creation and value appropriation issues in strategy studies

Learning to synthesise contradictions: an Austrian approach to bridging time concepts in the strategic theory of the firm

Moving from an inquiry on the notions of time underlying strategy studies, in this paper we lay the groundwork for the elaboration of a multitemporal view of the firm. We draw on the Austrian process view in economic studies and on Nonaka's idea of synthesising capabilities to formulate a methodological framework which consents the elaboration of a multitemporal view of the resource-based firm, in which different time concepts are bridged and main actor behaviours crucial for prolonged firm success are encompassed. We then show how the multitemporal view of the firm which emerges from the deployment of the integration of the Austrian and Nonakian approaches consents the reinterpretation and maintenance of the concepts elaborated within both the static and the dynamic strategy literature and, eventually, also to expand our understanding of the causal relationships between strategic management and a number of other areas of inquiry in the management field

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCE BASED FIRM BETWEEN VALUE APPROPRIATION AND VALUE CREATION

Various authors have brought forth the idea that the increase in context turbulence and the relentless change in today’s economic and competitive environments have rendered it essential for an effective firm strategy to combine both value appropriation and value creation (Porter, (1996); Moran & Ghoshal, (1999); Venkataraman & Sarasvathy, (2001); Hitt et al., (2001b). Nonetheless, the methodological bases and the assumptions that characterize contributions concerning value appropriation and value creation are notably different and in many respects opposite to one another. These profound methodological differences hinder the possibility of a combined consideration of value appropriation and value creation issues within a coherent interpretative framework. By reinterpreting more conventional strategy studies in the light of the Austrian process view, this article builds a process framework which is able to consider and render mutually compatible both value appropriation and value creation within the unitary process of firm development. In addition, the use of the Austrian approach as an interpretative lens enables an evolution and extension of the resource-based theory that consents it, not only to grasp the mechanisms behind value appropriation, but also to suggest new ways of viewing post-industrial firm behavior that help to interpret its dynamic and proactive role in the value creation process