Every generation of managers experiments with new organizational forms – new business models and ... more Every generation of managers experiments with new organizational forms – new business models and the organizational structures and management processes required to support them. Much of the current experimentation with business and organizational models is occurring in knowledge-intensive industries such as biotechnology, computers, telecommunications, and medical and scientific equipment. Based on our ongoing research, the principal business model that we see emerging in these and similar industries can be called market exploration. Market exploration is a firm’s pursuit of opportunities created by intersecting technologies and markets. The market exploration process is complex, involving technology development, product development and commercialization in collaboration with customers and other firms, and the orderly development of markets which have large but unknown potential. Firms that want to be effective at market exploration must organize specifically for innovation – they must be able to build and manage an I-form organization. In this article, we show how many firms are moving towards and improving the I-form organization, and we discuss its purpose, key features, and benefits.
The search for sustainable alignments between economic, environmental and social goals at the per... more The search for sustainable alignments between economic, environmental and social goals at the personal, organizational and societal level has been a key task of scholars from different disciplines....
What is the role of business organizations and competition in overcoming the current crisis of ca... more What is the role of business organizations and competition in overcoming the current crisis of capitalism? Following the call for revisiting “the implicit assumptions about what drives managerial a...
The search for sustainable alignments between economic and social goals at the personal, organiza... more The search for sustainable alignments between economic and social goals at the personal, organizational and societal level has been a key task of scholars from different disciplines. Yet, the domin...
The aim of this book is to investigate the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the co... more The aim of this book is to investigate the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the contribution of entrepreneurship to development at the regional level.
This book aims to investigate the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and on the relationship... more This book aims to investigate the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development at the regional level. Based on the policy and academic interest in clusters and entrepreneurship, Chapter 1 formulated the research questions to guide this inquiry. These research questions also provided the unit and level of analysis (Chapter 1), guided the literature review and theoretical elaboration (Chapter 2), and set the basis for building the model and formulating the hypotheses (Chapter 3) of this research. All of these elements are the criteria used to define the research design of the study, according to the principle that ‘the problem under investigation properly dictates the methods of investigation’ (Trow, 1957: p. 33).
This study aims to answer three research questions in order to understand and explain the impact ... more This study aims to answer three research questions in order to understand and explain the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the relationship between entrepreneurship and regional development: Is the level of entrepreneurship in regions with clusters higher than that of regions without clusters? Is the relationship between the level of entrepreneurship and regional development stronger in regions with clusters than in regions without clusters? If regions with clusters are associated with different levels of entrepreneurship and stronger relationships between entrepreneurship and regional development, what factors explain those differences?
This book aims to make a theoretical and practical contribution to meet the need for studies on t... more This book aims to make a theoretical and practical contribution to meet the need for studies on the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and the relationship between entrepreneurship and development at the regional level of analysis.
Every generation of managers experiments with new organizational forms – new business models and ... more Every generation of managers experiments with new organizational forms – new business models and the organizational structures and management processes required to support them. Much of the current experimentation with business and organizational models is occurring in knowledge-intensive industries such as biotechnology, computers, telecommunications, and medical and scientific equipment. Based on our ongoing research, the principal business model that we see emerging in these and similar industries can be called market exploration. Market exploration is a firm’s pursuit of opportunities created by intersecting technologies and markets. The market exploration process is complex, involving technology development, product development and commercialization in collaboration with customers and other firms, and the orderly development of markets which have large but unknown potential. Firms that want to be effective at market exploration must organize specifically for innovation – they must be able to build and manage an I-form organization. In this article, we show how many firms are moving towards and improving the I-form organization, and we discuss its purpose, key features, and benefits.
The search for sustainable alignments between economic, environmental and social goals at the per... more The search for sustainable alignments between economic, environmental and social goals at the personal, organizational and societal level has been a key task of scholars from different disciplines....
What is the role of business organizations and competition in overcoming the current crisis of ca... more What is the role of business organizations and competition in overcoming the current crisis of capitalism? Following the call for revisiting “the implicit assumptions about what drives managerial a...
The search for sustainable alignments between economic and social goals at the personal, organiza... more The search for sustainable alignments between economic and social goals at the personal, organizational and societal level has been a key task of scholars from different disciplines. Yet, the domin...
The aim of this book is to investigate the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the co... more The aim of this book is to investigate the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the contribution of entrepreneurship to development at the regional level.
This book aims to investigate the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and on the relationship... more This book aims to investigate the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and on the relationship between entrepreneurship and development at the regional level. Based on the policy and academic interest in clusters and entrepreneurship, Chapter 1 formulated the research questions to guide this inquiry. These research questions also provided the unit and level of analysis (Chapter 1), guided the literature review and theoretical elaboration (Chapter 2), and set the basis for building the model and formulating the hypotheses (Chapter 3) of this research. All of these elements are the criteria used to define the research design of the study, according to the principle that ‘the problem under investigation properly dictates the methods of investigation’ (Trow, 1957: p. 33).
This study aims to answer three research questions in order to understand and explain the impact ... more This study aims to answer three research questions in order to understand and explain the impact of clusters on both entrepreneurship and the relationship between entrepreneurship and regional development: Is the level of entrepreneurship in regions with clusters higher than that of regions without clusters? Is the relationship between the level of entrepreneurship and regional development stronger in regions with clusters than in regions without clusters? If regions with clusters are associated with different levels of entrepreneurship and stronger relationships between entrepreneurship and regional development, what factors explain those differences?
This book aims to make a theoretical and practical contribution to meet the need for studies on t... more This book aims to make a theoretical and practical contribution to meet the need for studies on the impact of clusters on entrepreneurship, and the relationship between entrepreneurship and development at the regional level of analysis.
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