Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations in Italy

On the Choice and Success of Competitive Strategies

“…2 See, in particular, Porter (1990: 482-507), Pavitt and Patel (1999), Estevez-Abe et al (2001), Hall and Soskice (2001a: 36-44), Vitols (2001), Amable (2003), Casper and Matraves (2003), Casper and Whitley (2004); see also, Lindgaard Christensen (1992), Freeman (1992), Walker (1993) and Hollingsworth (2000). 3 See Estevez-Abe et al (2001: 175-176) and Amable (2003: in particular 102-114, 197-213); see also, Porter (1990: 421-453), Malerba (1993) and Trento (2005). 4 For proponents of this argument, see Hall and Soskice (2001a: 17-21), Vitols (2001: 355-359), Hall and Gingerich (2004) and Casper (2007).…”

The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on the High-Tech Industry

“…Considering that the BM concept is intrinsically linked to the exploitation of opportunities (DaSilva & Trkman, 2014), such as the ones brought by novel technologies (Spieth & Schneider, 2016), the new contingency created by the I40 calls for BM that have the capacity to collect data from the customer side in order to deliver products better tailored, priced and delivered to customer or segment needs along the entire lifecycle of the product (Kagermann et al, 2013;Porter & Heppelmann, 2014). In this process, the relationships among SMEs inside the production chain are crucial (Trento, 2005;Tresca, 2013). I40 offers new technologies to make interactions and the BM can originate new solutions in one of the three business model elements: value creation, value offer and value capture.…”

Contrasting the resource-based view and competitiveness theories: how pharmaceutical firms choose to compete in Germany, Italy and the UK

“…13 See in particular Amable (2003), Casper and Matraves (2003), Casper and Whitley (2004), Estevez-Abe et al (2001), Hall and Soskice (2001a: 36-44), Pavitt and Patel (1999), Porter (1990: 482-507) and Vitols (2001); see also Lindgaard Christensen (1992), Freeman (1992), Hollingsworth (2000) and Walker (1993). 14 See Amable (2003: in particular 102-14, 197-213) and Estevez-Abe et al (2001: 175-6); see also King and Wood (1999: 376), Malerba (1993), Porter (1990: 421-53) and Trento (2005). 15 For examples, see Dalum (1992), Fagerberg (1992), Hancké and Herrmann (2007) and Keck (1993: 133-7); see also Amable (2003: 200-9), Porter (1990: 179-541) and Sinn (2005).…”