Workflow Interdependence Analysis of Projects in Business Ecosystems

This article contributes to engineering project research by studying how projects relate to their surrounding context. The article presents a framework for the analysis of workflow interdependencies in a project that is situated in a business ecosystem. The analysis is used to reduce costly conflicts in the business ecosystem, and the framework shows how the project is positively impacted by the resolution of those conflicts. The framework elaborates James Thompson’s notion of pooled, sequential and reciprocal interdependence and distinguishes between compatible-reciprocal and contentious-reciprocal interdependencies. The relationship between interdependence types and their corresponding coordination and governance mechanisms, originally posited for interdependence between tasks and groups within a single organization, applies equally well to interdependence types and governance mechanisms across firm boundaries within a business ecosystem. We analyze a cargo vessel development project within the short sea logistics business ecosystem to illustrate how the proposed framework can remove unproductive workflow conflicts and enhance value creation.

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Research on Cross-Border Entrepreneurial Path of Core Enterprise Based on Ecological Advantage

Sustainability in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3495-3.ch004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 75-104

Author(s):

Dake Jiang ◽

Hong Zhang ◽

Lei Wang ◽

Jin Liu ◽

Linlin Chang

Keyword(s):

Interaction Model ◽

Academic Community ◽

Core Business ◽

Corporate Strategies ◽

The Core ◽

Cross Border ◽

Business Ecosystem ◽

Evolution Path ◽

Business Ecosystems ◽

The Relationship

In the business ecosystem, the core business niche is not occupied by a structural position; its objectives and strategies are easily dispersed, while the core business can't coordinate the business ecosystem elements. Therefore, the ecological advantages obtained by core enterprises in the process of self-organization evolution are not sustainable. To solve this problem, a possible way is to explore how core enterprises consolidate and form new ecological advantages from the perspective of cross-border business. However, the academic community has not discussed the evolution path of cross-border entrepreneurship in detail. For this reason, based on the perspective of ecological advantages, this chapter discusses the strategic path of cross-border entrepreneurship of core enterprises and constructs an interaction model between ecological advantages and core enterprises' cross-border entrepreneurial paths. The study broadens the understanding of the relationship between corporate strategies and business ecosystems, then provides theoretical value for subsequent research.

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Designing a business unit and creating the first ever responsive kitchen

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.c20.129 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Paolo FESTA ◽

Tommaso CORA ◽

Lucilla FAZIO

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Product Innovation ◽

Research Laboratory ◽

Direct Relationship ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Business Unit ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The Relationship

Is it possible to transform stone into a technological and innovative device? The meeting with one of the main stone transformers in Europe produced the intention of a disruptive operation that could affect the strategy of the whole company. A contagious singularity. By intertwining LEAN methodologies and the human-centric approach of design thinking, we mapped the value creation in the company activating a dialogue with the workers and the management, listening to people, asking for ambitions, discovering problems and the potential of production. This qualitative and quantitative analysis conducted with a multidisciplinary approach by designers, architects and marketing strategists allowed us to define a new method. We used it to design a platform that could let all the players express their potential to the maximum. This is how the group's research laboratory was born, with the aim of promoting the relationship between humans and stone through product innovation. With this goal, we coordinated the new team, developing technologies that would allow creating a more direct relationship between man and surface, making the stone reactive. The result was the first responsive kitchen ever.

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Determinants of the Relationship Between Strategic Performance and Shareholder's Value Creation: Beyond Financials

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.933300 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Marcelo J. Rossi

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Strategic Performance ◽

The Relationship

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Identifikation und Auswahl von Business Ecosystems*/Identification and selection of business ecosystems. Procedure and strategic and operative integration in industrial companies

wt Werkstattstechnik online ◽

10.37544/1436-4980-2019-04-92 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 (04) ◽

pp. 294-301

Author(s):

R. E. Geitner ◽

T. Bauernhansl

Keyword(s):

Value Proposition ◽

Business Ecosystem ◽

Industrial Companies ◽

A Value ◽

Basic Procedure ◽

Business Ecosystems ◽

Value Propositions ◽

Operational Integration ◽

A Company ◽

Selection Of

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung führt zu neuen und konvergierenden Produkt- und Dienstleistungen und effizienteren Prozessen. In Verbindung mit einem Wandel der Bedürfnisse führt sie darüber hinaus auch zu einem veränderten Nutzerverhalten und Nutzenverständnis der Kunden. Zur flexiblen und schnellen Umsetzung von passgenau individualisierten, oft branchenübergreifenden Wertangeboten und der Absicherung des Kundenzugangs wird es zukünftig wettbewerbsentscheidend sein, sich im richtigen Business Ecosystem – also der Gruppe von Akteuren die interagieren müssen, um ein entsprechendes Wertangebot zu realisieren und den entsprechenden Kundenzugang haben – zu bewegen und dieses mitzugestalten. Der Beitrag beschreibt das grundsätzliche Vorgehen zur Identifizierung und Auswahl relevanter Business Ecosystems sowie deren strategische und operative Einbindung in ein Unternehmen.   The ongoing digitization leads to new and converging product benefits and more efficient processes. In connection with a change in needs it also leads to a change in user behaviour and understanding of the benefits for customers. For the flexible and fast implementation of customized, individualized, often cross-industry value propositions and the safeguarding of access to customers, it will be crucial in the future to act and help to shape the relevant business ecosystems (group of actors that need to interact in order to realize a value proposition or to have access to customers). The article describes the basic procedure for identifying and selecting relevant business ecosystems and their strategic and operational integration into a company.

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Corporate governance and conglomerate diversification strategy – evidence from Vietnam

International Journal of Emerging Markets ◽

10.1108/ijoem-10-2016-0260 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 1578-1596 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Thi Xuan Trang Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Corporate Governance ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

Board Composition ◽

Governance Mechanisms ◽

Content Type ◽

Unrelated Diversification ◽

Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽

Control Devices ◽

Interest Alignment ◽

The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of internal corporate governance mechanisms, including interest alignment and control devices, on the unrelated diversification level in Vietnam. Additionally, the moderation of free cash flow (FCF) on these relationships is also tested. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a balanced panel data set of 70 listed companies in both stock markets, Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange and Hanoi Stock Exchange, in Vietnam for the years 2007–2014, which gives 560 observations in total. Findings The results show that if executive ownership for CEOs is increased, then the extent of diversification is likely to be reduced. However, the link between unrelated diversification level and executive stock option, another interest alignment device, cannot be confirmed. Among three control devices (level of blockholder ownership, board composition and separation of CEO and chairman positions), the study finds a positive connection between diversification and blockholder ownership, and statistically insignificant relations between the conglomerate diversification level and board composition, or CEO duality. Additionally, this study discovers a negative link between diversification and state ownership, although there is no evidence to support the change to the effect of each internal corporate governance mechanism on the diversification level of a firm between high and low FCF. Practical implications The research can be a useful reference not only for investors and managers but also for policy makers in Vietnam. This study explores the relationship among corporate governance, diversification and firm value in Vietnam, where the topics related to effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms to public companies has been increasingly attractive to researchers since the default of Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin) happened in 2010 and the Circular No. 121/2012/TT-BTC on 26 July 2012 of the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance was issued with regulations on corporate governance applicable to listed firms in this country. Originality/value This research, first, enriches current literature on the relationship between corporate governance and firm diversification. It can be considered as a contribution to the related topic with an example of Vietnam, a developing country in Asia. Second, the research continues to prove non-unification in results showing the relationship between corporate governance and conglomerate diversification among different nations. Third, it provides a potential input for future research works on the moderation of FCF to the effects of corporate governance on diversification.

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Development? Thinking the future through a urban-natural perspective

Nova Economia ◽

10.1590/0103-6351/3971 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (spe) ◽

pp. 1157-1186

Author(s):

Harley Silva ◽

Jakob O. W. Sparn ◽

Renata Guimarães Vieira

Keyword(s):

Human Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

Current Development ◽

Alternative Development ◽

The Future ◽

The Relationship ◽

Urban Utopia ◽

Traditional Communities

Abstract: This article offers a theoretical discussion on urbanization, nature and development and some of the links and interdependencies that connect these concepts. The focus is on some of the underlying dynamics and issues of our current development project defined as capitalist industrialization. The article illustrates the role of cities for human development and then argues that the relationship between society and nature could be - and indeed already has been - thought from a different perspective. Finally, the article discusses the transition from “campesinato” (peasantry) to traditional communities as product of extensive urbanization, as form of resistance and as potential blueprint for an alternative development and, potentially, for the Lefebvrian urban-utopia.

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From Culture 1.0 to Culture 3.0: Three Socio-Technical Regimes of Social and Economic Value Creation through Culture, and Their Impact on European Cohesion Policies

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10113923 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 3923 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Pier Sacco ◽

Guido Ferilli ◽

Giorgio Tavano Blessi

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

Value Creation ◽

Cultural Policy ◽

Policy Design ◽

Economic Value ◽

Cultural Participation ◽

Social Value Creation ◽

Open Question ◽

The Relationship

We develop a new conceptual framework to analyze the evolution of the relationship between cultural production and different forms of economic and social value creation in terms of three alternative socio-technical regimes that have emerged over time. We show how, with the emergence of the Culture 3.0 regime characterized by novel forms of active cultural participation, where the distinction between producers and users of cultural and creative contents is increasingly blurred, new channels of social and economic value creation through cultural participation acquire increasing importance. We characterize them through an eight-tier classification, and argue on this basis why cultural policy is going to acquire a central role in the policy design approaches of the future. Whether Europe will play the role of a strategic leader in this scenario in the context of future cohesion policies is an open question.

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Modeling and Visualizing Smart City Mobility Business Ecosystems: Insights from a Case Study

Information ◽

10.3390/info9110270 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 270 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Anne Faber ◽

Sven-Volker Rehm ◽

Adrian Hernandez-Mendez ◽

Florian Matthes

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Design Science ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Ecosystem Models ◽

Business Ecosystem ◽

Proactive Management ◽

Business Ecosystems

Smart mobility is a central issue in the recent discourse about urban development policy towards smart cities. The design of innovative and sustainable mobility infrastructures as well as public policies require cooperation and innovations between various stakeholders—businesses as well as policy makers—of the business ecosystems that emerge around smart city initiatives. This poses a challenge for deploying instruments and approaches for the proactive management of such business ecosystems. In this article, we report on findings from a smart city initiative we have used as a case study to inform the development, implementation, and prototypical deployment of a visual analytic system (VAS). As results of our design science research we present an agile framework to collaboratively collect, aggregate and map data about the ecosystem. The VAS and the agile framework are intended to inform and stimulate knowledge flows between ecosystem stakeholders in order to reflect on viable business and policy strategies. Agile processes and roles to collaboratively manage and adapt business ecosystem models and visualizations are defined. We further introduce basic categories for identifying, assessing and selecting Internet data sources that provide the data for ecosystem models and we detail the ecosystem data and view models developed in our case study. Our model represents a first explication of categories for visualizing business ecosystem models in a smart city mobility context.

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Distrust And Dominance In Managing Alternative Work Arrangements: A Micro-Analytic Test Of Transaction Cost Theory

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v22i3.1422 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Terry R. Adler ◽

Gabriel D. Isaacs ◽

Robert L. Steiner

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

Transaction Cost ◽

Value Creation ◽

Transaction Cost Theory ◽

Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽

Font Size ◽

Alternative Work Arrangements ◽

Work Arrangements ◽

Alternative Work ◽

The Relationship

Organizations that successfully outsource may see better value-creation in creating a sustainable competitive advantage.  The objectives of this study were threefold:  a) provide a framework for studying the effects of perceived distrust that leads to dominance, b) analyze how opportunism parlays into the concept of dominance, and c) determine if the relationship between outsource partners varies by analyzing transaction characteristics.  Our research shows that firms should take caution to fully understand the effects that contract size has on a firm’s resources.

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The relationship between corporate governance and financial performance of small corporations in Australia

Journal of Business Systems Governance & Ethics ◽

10.15209/jbsge.v9i2.716 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yongqiang Li ◽

Anona Armstrong ◽

Andrew Clarke

Keyword(s):

Corporate Governance ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Small Firms ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Governance Mechanisms ◽

Latent Constructs ◽

Equation Modelling ◽

Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽

The Relationship

This paper examines a widely explored but yet to be confirmed relationship between two latent constructs - corporate governance and financial performance of small corporations in Australia. Prior studies have either focused on larger organisations or isolated corporate governance mechanisms in small firms. However, few have examined how corporate governance mechanisms, as a bundle, relate to small corporations. This study fills this gap by empirically analysing the aforementioned relationship using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Based on 387 responses from small corporations, the results show that corporate governance bundles measured by the extant literature, has a negative impact on the financial performance of small corporations. The result calls for a stakeholder approach to the governance needs of small corporations.

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