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Processi Innovativi e Orientamenti Strategici nelle PMI siciliane. Un'analisi multidimensionale
2010
In 1959, Penrose highlighted how the firm's organisation of economic activity is based on its perception about the adjustment of production to the market, more than on objective evaluation. So, he underlined not just the importance to identify the nature of the determinants of firm behaviour, but also how the assessment of these factors must consider the production context where they originate. Now, this context for Penrose has to be considered as an image in the mind of the entrepreneur of the possibilities and restrictions. In line with this view, and with the recent approach to innovation policies, this work analyses the survey data collected in 2008 on the innovation needs of Sicilian f…
Cybernetics of Value Cocreation for Product Development
2017
In marketing theory, the shift from the paradigm of value creation to value ‘cocreation’ calls for a deeper grasp of the interactions between producers and customers. Marketing studies have widely focused on the value cocreation concept, but so far, the mechanism through which consumers can be involved in the process of value cocreation through product development had found little space in marketing studies. In this theoretical paper, we aim to fill this gap and pave the way towards a better understanding of the mechanisms of value cocreation for product development through second-order cybernetics. We conceive the market arena as a physical or virtual place where communications of value pro…
Crowdfunding performance, market performance, and the moderating roles of product innovativeness and experts' judgment: Evidence from the movie indus…
2023
Reward-based crowdfunding (CF) has emerged as a method to solicit funds for innovative projects. Yet, little is still known about the ability of reward-based CF to act as a signal in the eyes of future consumers, and thus boost the future market performance of new products that innovators intend to commercialize using the campaign funds. In addition, scant research has clarified the boundary conditions that can magnify or weaken the efficacy of this CF signal. Given the relevance of reward-based CF for supporting innovation, understanding when the CF campaign performance works as an effective signal is of great interest, especially in business settings characterized by high product quality …
Acting Agentically at Work: Developing a Short Measure of Professional Agency
2021
Although professional agency has become an increasingly crucial issue in work organizations, investigators lack a brief instrument to measure it. This paper introduces a short measure to explore professional agency at work. Our aim was to shorten the original 17-item Professional Agency Measure, while also exploring its usability for cross-validating questionnaire datasets, and investigating the relationship between professional agency and work engagement. Three dimensions of professional agency emerged, with three items per dimension, across the domains of healthcare, real estate services, and information technology (all within Finland). All the dimensions (Influencing at work, Participati…
Product market regulation, innovation and productivity
2014
Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing industries. We pay particular attention to the vertically-induced influence of product market regulation (PMR) of key input sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a differentiated effect of this type of PMR depending on whether countries are technological leaders or laggards in a given industry and for a given time period. Contrary to the most widespread policy claims, the …
ICT demand behaviour: An international comparison
2009
This study aims to provide some empirical explanations for the gaps in ICT diffusion between industrialized countries, especially European countries vis-à-vis the United States. The panel data cover eleven OECD countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. These annual macroeconomic data span the 1981-2005 period.The analysis provides some original results: (i) the impact on ICT diffusion of the level of education and market rigidities has changed over time. The correlation of ICT diffusion, positive with the level of education and negative with market rigidities, increased over time (in absolute terms)…
Amor y misoginia. A propósito de "amor fou" de Marta Sanz
2019
En este breve texto abordamos una aproximación a las relaciones amorosas, la misoginia romántica y su vinculación con las relaciones asimétricas de género en sociedades occidentales contemporáneas, a partir del análisis discursivo de la novela Amor Fou de la escritora Marta Sanz (2018). Todo discurso narrativo imaginado es, simultáneamente, producto de la realidad social e histórica en la que se inscribe y productor de las representaciones simbólicas hegemónicas que sustentan relaciones instituidas de desigualdad entre los distintos agentes sociales. Desde esta perspectiva, el análisis que proponemos de esta ficción narrativa se inscribe en el cruce de algunas renovaciones epistemológicas y…
Estructura Competencial y de utilización de las TIC y su relación con las variables personales y contextuales clave en el profesorado no universitario
2022
La Sociedad del Conocimiento supone nuevas competencias que ha de fomentar el sistema educativo. El profesorado, como actor principal de la integración de las TIC en el aula, ha de adquirir y dominar las Competencias TIC de forma que prepare al alumnado en la cultura digital. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en determinar la dimensionalidad y la relación estructural de las competencias TIC (tecnológicas, pedagógicas y éticas) que posee el profesorado de Educación Primaria y Educación Secundaria de la Comunidad Valenciana, junto con la incidencia de los factores personales y contextuales sobre tal estructura. Se ha empleado un diseño correlacional, con una muestra compuesta por 1.002 pro…
Repressió de Normalistes i renovació / involució pedagògica
2014
La majoria dels estudis que, fins ara, s’han publicat al voltant de la depuració franquista del cossos docents han aduït com causa de sanció la seva participació en una pedagogia progressista. Però la investigació que estem duent a terme sobre el professorat de les Normals del País Valencià, ens duu a interrogar-nos sobre si la renovació pedagògica ha estat un càrrec decisori a l’hora d’imposar les sancions, perquè de l’anàlisi de les seues pràctiques escolars, de les seues publicacions i del seu procés depurador, hem arribat a la conclusió que la renovació pedagògica ha estat comuna a professors de signe ideològic contraposat i en cap cas es va aduïr com un sarg en contra. És la nostra int…
Adopció de la innovació per part des docents de Ciències de la Salut de la Universitat de València respecte al projecte OCW
2012
La Universitat de València es va adherir a finals del 2008 a la iniciativa Open Course Ware (OCW), que és un projecte editorial a gran escala format per un repositori obert de recursos educatius d’educació superior, desenvolupat pel Massachusetts Institute of Technology i que s’ha estès a diverses universitats arreu del món. L’OCW és un dels diferents projectes d’innovació educativa que impulsa la Universitat de València per tal d’afavorir el procés d’ensenyament-aprenentatge, centrant-lo en l’alumnat, com a un dels pilars fonamentals en que es basa l’Espai Europeu d’Educació Superior. Malgrat ser un projecte ambiciós i de reconegut prestigi, a hores d’ara, la implicació dels docents en el …