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Challenging Challenge: The Ambivalent Impact of Challenge on Intrinsic Motivation Effectiveness in Digital Co-Creation
2017
While most literature on co-creation shows a consistently positive impact of challenge on motivational processes, the authors of this study examine situational ambiguous effects. Consequently, the exalted status of challenge in practice and research is called into question. This research combines psychological needs inferred from Self-Determination Theory with challenge derived from Flow Theory to explore direct and interactive effects on motivation and participation in digital co-creation. As an example of concrete consumer innovation the authors applied the concept of Threadless in order to test propositions for co-creation settings. Threadless is a real online platform that calls up for …
Co-creation in networks of SMEs: a conceptual model of the co-creation process
2021
Abstract The ability to adopt new digital technology is a very challenging endeavour, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), who because of resource poverty are dependent on external input and cooperation with other companies. Recent research has indicated that co-creation among SMEs is a promising way to overcome such limitations. However, there has been very limited research on the co-creation process, and we have little understanding about how SMEs would go about to establish and run a co-creation network. We propose a conceptual model based on our review of the literature and our empirical findings from investigating co-creation in four networks. The results expand ou…
On the relationship between knowledge creation and economic performance
2015
An empirical two-equation dynamic panel-data model system with fixed effects is proposed to analyze the relationship between knowledge creation and economic performance across regions over time. Estimates of the model for Spanish regions show that (i) knowledge creation depends on local R&D effort, on the amount of knowledge in use, and on knowledge creation in neighboring regions; and (ii) assimilation of new knowledge depends on local knowledge creation and on assimilation of knowledge in neighboring regions. Both processes include region-specific context fixed effects and region-specific time effects, representing region-specific dynamic influences. The results imply that (a) efficie…
Innovation and knowledge creation: perspectives on the SMEs sector
2013
Purpose – The paper aims to look at small to medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs') approach to learning and innovation.Design/methodology/approach – The first research direction focuses on the internal and external sources for learning used in the innovation process. A second research direction focuses on the main types of innovation SMEs engage in along with some of the obstacles or constraints identified within the innovation process. In order to answer the research questions set, the authors conducted a survey among 161 Romanian SMEs from various economic sectors and covering different geographical areas.Findings – Romanian SMEs display a learning orientation related to innovation, using bes…
Decoding the dynamics of value cocreation in consumer tribes. An Agency Theory approach
2017
In the last decade, marketing studies have tried to define methodologies, models, and tools to support organizations in developing pathways “oriented to” and “based on” the value cocreation. To shed light on these dynamics, using the interpretative lens offered by Agency Theory, this study investigates the sociocultural and cognitive/figurative roots of the process of emergence of consumer tribes in which and by which value cocreation takes place. This paper offers a possible advancement in knowledge useful to define approaches, models, and instruments able to better explain and manage the dynamics of value cocreation.
Managerial practices driving knowledge creation, learning and transfer in translational research: an exploratory case study
2014
Despite its growing popularity in the biomedical literature, the particular phenomenon of translational research management has not been addressed from an organizational and strategic perspective yet. Our study aims to fill this gap by identifying a set of managerial practices that could influence how knowledge is created, amplified and transferred from biomedical research both to clinical practice and the productive sector. As a result of the theoretical review, we have proposed a preliminary model to guide our empirical work. We have developed an exploratory case study to gather organisational information from an outstanding translational research center. The results obtained from the ana…
Knowledge Representation in Travelling Texts:from Mirroring to Missing the Point
2014
<p><em>Today, information travels fast. Texts travel, too. In a corporate context, the question is how to manage which knowledge elements should travel to a new language area or market and in which form? The decision to let knowledge elements travel or not travel highly depends on the limitation and the purpose of the text in a new context as well as on predefined parameters for text travel. For texts used in marketing and in technology, the question is whether culture-bound knowledge elements should be domesticated or kept as foreign elements, or should be mirrored or moulded—or should not travel at all! When should semantic and pragmatic elements in a text be replaced and by w…
How can knowledge sharing reduce barriers for entering the Chinese market? : A study on Business Region Kristiansand China Forum
2018
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2018 Konfidensiell til / confidential until 01.07.2023
Verso l’«inesplorato fondo dell’io». De Roberto e la psicologia fin de siècle
2021
Il saggio mira ad analizzare le modalità con cui Federico De Roberto rappresenta e indaga il «fondo dell’incosciente», sulla scia delle acquisizioni della scienza e della psicologia coeve. A interessare lo scrittore non sono esclusivamente le dinamiche dell’ereditarietà, bensì i meccanismi occulti della psiche. I personaggi derobertiani sono agiti da impulsi irrazionali e involontari, che non riescono a governare ma che ne determinano i comportamenti. Inoltre, in anticipo sul Modernismo, De Roberto ritiene che qualsiasi raffigurazione verosimile del reale risulti sempre parziale, perché filtrata attraverso la lente deformante della soggettività. Nel trattato L’Amore. Fisiologia - Psicologia…
Experiencia docente iberoamericana sobre metodología de la investigación a través de videoconferencia
2013
Les noves tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació (TIC) són eines valuoses que utilitzades correctament afavoreixen el procés 'ensenyament- aprenentatge en tots els nivells del sistema educatiu . En els últims anys l'ús de la videoconferència com a eina de les TIC en el sector universitari ha vingut en augment a causa del potencial educatiu i social de connectar processos i experiències entre professors i estudiants situats en diferents parts del món. La videoconferència ha transformat la forma en què la pedagogia i l'aprenentatge es duen a terme a l'aula universitària . L'article descriu una experiència educativa entre dues països iberoamericans sobre la implementació de l´assignatur…