Resources and Capabilities for Academic Spin-Offs’ Development. An Empirical Analysis of the Italian Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 355-371
Author(s):  
Stefania Migliori ◽  
Francesco De Luca
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Italian Context

Resource-based view of innovation activity in SMEs: an empirical analysis based on the global competitiveness project

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lívia Lukovszki ◽  
András Rideg ◽  
Norbert Sipos
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the corporate functions that contribute most to the innovation success of SMEs with limited resources. After a systematic literature review, the authors used a unique primary data set of 784 SMEs from eight countries. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression were used to show the data set peculiarities. The logistic regression targeted the presence of innovative products and services in sales by 11 dummy variables and 4 principal factors describing SMEs’ different resources and capabilities. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a resource-based product innovation model that is synthesising the impact of the company resources and capabilities and of the innovation activity of the company on the actual innovation performance. The authors carry out an empirical analysis of the characteristic features of innovation activity in an international sample of SMEs. Findings The results show that two corporate functions play a crucial role in the effectiveness of innovation for SMEs as follows: management and research and development (R&D). In addition, although of lesser importance, the effect of the marketing function also appears significant. The binary logistic regression had 84.2% of explanatory power. Originality/value From a scientific point of view, the SME-focussed, complex and synthesising RBV model of innovation construction and literature review can be used as a reference point for future researches. From a practical point of view, the analysis is useful for those SMEs, which want to gain a competitive advantage through innovation. Indeed, the results show that in the case of SMEs, a company wishing to innovate must invest in three corporate functions for innovation to be effective as follows: management, R&D and marketing.

Strategies and approaches green advertising: an empirical analysis of the Italian context

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Testa ◽  
Fabio Iraldo ◽  
Sara Tessitore ◽  
Marco Frey
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Green Advertising ◽  
Italian Context

scholarly journals The Drivers of the Sustainability of Spanish Wineries: Resources and Capabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10171
Author(s):  
María Carmen García-Cortijo ◽  
Juan R. Ferrer ◽  
Juan Sebastián Castillo-Valero ◽  
Vicente Pinilla
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Cox Models ◽  
Marketing Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article aims to determine which of a firm’s resources are drivers of its decisions on sustainability policies. For this purpose, it analyses four of the resources that the literature has linked with sustainability: (1) marketing resources, (2) technological resources, (3) innovation resources and (4) financial resources. The study focuses on Spain, which has the largest surface area under vine in the world. The database for the empirical analysis was drawn up from a survey among wineries carried out during 2020 and 2021. A total of 411 observations were valid. From the quantitative analysis, based on Box–Cox models, it can be concluded that adopting sustainability policies requires placing stress on innovation and on the capacity for communicating such innovations so that consumers perceive them as a change for the better; having greater technological or financial resources seems to be insufficient and of little importance. The results indicate that promoting funding and resource availability as basic tools should be reviewed in sustainability policies for wine firms.

scholarly journals The Internationalization of Oil&Gas Family Businesses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Testa
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Industrial Districts ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The World ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
Oil Gas

The internalization of family businesses – i.e. of the companies that implement it – can be stimulated by numerous reasons: one of these is linked to the target markets, not in terms of market development, but of resource to be used / exploited. What makes the oil companies distinguishing is that: they follow the territory and the exploitation of the underground resources, wherever they are in the world. In the Italian context, this characteristic of oilfield companies is very noticeable due to the scarcity of underground resources, which characterize our territory. We propose an empirical approach. It has been considered the case of a specific Italian Oil&Gas family firm. The study consists of: a first part, in which an analysis of the main economic and managerial literature, both national and international, was made (on internationalization, SMEs and family businesses, industrial districts, oilfield environment); a second part, in which an empirical analysis was developed: interviews have been conducted with the owners and top management of the company, in order to study and analyze the firm development strategies.

scholarly journals Do stock option plans affect the firm’s performance? An empirical analysis on the Italian context

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Alessandro Giosi ◽  
Silvia Testarmata ◽  
Marco Caiffa
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Stock Option ◽  
Incentive Contracts ◽  
Italian Context ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This study investigates the impact of stock option plans, defined as share-based incentive contracts provided by companies to their employees, on the value relevance of accounting information. The purpose of this study is to analyse the extent to which the value relevance of accounting information is affected by the adoption of stock option plans. Using panel data, the empirical analysis shows that the value relevance of accounting information is affected by the adoption of stock option plans. They are seen by the market as a “cost” and not as an opportunity or an attempt to align different interests. In addition, the research results show that the market performance does not seem affected by the design of the stock option plans. However, the firm’s market performance appears to be more related to the structure of the stock option plans in companies with a higher market capitalization. Thus further research is needed to deeper investigate the impact of the design of the stock option plans and the effect of the endogenous characters

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