Identity Management for Wireless Service Access

In a digital home a so-called multi-play system integrates networked entertainment and communications systems. Using a mobile phone, all those services can be controlled and used ubiquitously—from everywhere, at any time. Not much research has been conducted in the field of integrated communication offers. The novelty of this study is in that it addresses the ubiquitous communication system, called the multi-play service, from the perspectives of both the customer preference and operator strategy and transforms this into valuation of resources and capabilities. This chapter provides a framework to connect the customer value preferences to firm resources. The aim of the framework is to connect customer and resource-based strategies together. As a result of the analysis the authors reveal the most important resources in contrast to the customer value preferences.

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Inscribing Interpretive Flexibility of Context Data in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-960-1.ch067 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1079-1097

Author(s):

Magnus Andersson ◽

Rikard Lindgren

Keyword(s):

Identity Management ◽

Point Of View ◽

Service Access ◽

Wireless Service ◽

Context Data ◽

Proximity Services ◽

Computing Environments ◽

Remote Services ◽

Research Questions ◽

Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Ubiquitous access and pervasive computing concept is almost intrinsically tied to wireless communications. Emerging next-generation wireless networks enable innovative service access in every situation. Apart from many remote services, proximity services will also be widely available. People currently rely on numerous forms of identities to access these services. The inconvenience of possessing and using these identities creates significant security vulnerability, especially from network and device point of view in wireless service access. After explaining the current identity solutions scenarios, the chapter illustrates the on-going efforts by various organizations, the requirements and frameworks to develop an innovative, easy-to-use identity management mechanism to access the future diverse service worlds. The chapter also conveys various possibilities, challenges, and research questions evolving in these areas.

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Identity Management for Wireless Service Access

Handbook of Research on Wireless Security ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-899-4.ch008 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 104-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammad M.R. Chowdhury ◽

Josef Noll

Keyword(s):

Wireless Networks ◽

Wireless Communications ◽

Identity Management ◽

Point Of View ◽

Service Access ◽

Wireless Service ◽

Proximity Services ◽

Remote Services ◽

Research Questions ◽

Ubiquitous Access

Ubiquitous access and pervasive computing concept is almost intrinsically tied to wireless communications. Emerging next-generation wireless networks enable innovative service access in every situation. Apart from many remote services, proximity services will also be widely available. People currently rely on numerous forms of identities to access these services. The inconvenience of possessing and using these identities creates significant security vulnerability, especially from network and device point of view in wireless service access. After explaining the current identity solutions scenarios, the chapter illustrates the on-going efforts by various organizations, the requirements and frameworks to develop an innovative, easy-to-use identity management mechanism to access the future diverse service worlds. The chapter also conveys various possibilities, challenges, and research questions evolving in these areas.

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Discovering a Rosetta Stone for Firm-Side Authenticity: An Empirical Investigation

International Journal of Marketing and Business Communication ◽

10.21863/ijmbc/2016.5.1.026 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ian Parkman ◽

Samuel Holloway

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Identity Management ◽

Academic Research ◽

Corporate Identity ◽

Organizational Contexts ◽

Rosetta Stone ◽

Innovation Capacity ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

Four Quadrant

While most academic research has considered authenticity from the consumers perspective, this paper proposes and tests a new empirical operationalization of Beverlands (2005) widely cited proposition that firm-side authenticity is…partly true and partly rhetorical (p.1008). Our study presents a model based on the Competitive Advantage (CA) that results from congruence between the partly true aspects of the firms internal culture, resources, and capabilities measured as Innovation Capacity (IC), alongside Corporate Identity Management (CIM) as the organizations partly rhetorical outwardly-directed corporate branding and marketing promotions activities. Our findings are interpreted through a four-quadrant Rosetta Stone framework for evaluating firm-side authenticity across organizational contexts and environments describing how high-IC/high-CIM (i.e., Authentic) firms create differentiation from low-IC/low-CIM Inauthentic organizations and low-IC/high-CIM Faux Imitators competitors who attempt to compensate for their lack of IC through increased investments in CIM.

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Secure Identity Management for Pseudo-Anonymous Service Access

Security in Pervasive Computing - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-32004-3_6 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 48-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Michael Hitchens ◽

Judy Kay ◽

Bob Kummerfeld ◽

Ajay Brar

Keyword(s):

Identity Management ◽

Service Access

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Resources and capabilities through the lens of value (co-) creation: a literature review

International Journal of Innovation Science ◽

10.1108/ijis-09-2016-023 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 230-253 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alexandra França ◽

João Ferreira

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Model ◽

Customer Value ◽

Dynamic Capabilities ◽

Conceptual Development ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

Superior Performance ◽

Content Type ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

Critical Interpretation

Purpose Involving customers to create value is an important strategy for firms to compete, satisfy customized demands and gain competitive advantage. This potentially important alternate viewpoint for strategic management aims to widen avenues of business opportunities. Design/methodology/approach To date in the strategy discipline, profuse research has been undertaken to identify the typology of resources/capabilities that explain firm’s unique competitiveness and superior performance. However, very little research has been undertaken to explain how firms attempt to create customer value, how resources become valuable for customers maximizing benefits and how investments in dynamic capabilities allow the firm to (co) create value. This paper is intended as a contribution to the ongoing conceptual development of resources and capabilities (RC) through the lens of value co-creation and provides initial guidance for future empirical studies. Findings The authors organize and integrate the diverse body of past literature relating to RC and, in doing so, develop a synthesized conceptual model. A critical interpretation of previous literature relating to RC and co-creation reveals how little attention has been paid to these connections and what exists is only partial. Originality/value The authors develop a first initial constructing of the past theory which is subsequently refined and strengthened into a conceptual model advancing on theoretical development in the field.

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Do blockchain and circular economy practices improve post COVID-19 supply chains? A resource-based and resource dependence perspective

Industrial Management & Data Systems ◽

10.1108/imds-09-2020-0560 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Santosh Nandi ◽

Joseph Sarkis ◽

Aref Hervani ◽

Marilyn Helms

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Resource Dependence ◽

Future Research ◽

Organizational Size ◽

Firm Resources ◽

Content Type ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

The Relationship

PurposeUsing the resource-based and the resource dependence theoretical approaches of the firm, the paper explores firm responses to supply chain disruptions during COVID-19. The paper explores how firms develop localization, agility and digitization (L-A-D) capabilities by applying (or not applying) their critical circular economy (CE) and blockchain technology (BCT)-related resources and capabilities that they either already possess or acquire from external agents.Design/methodology/approachAn abductive approach, applying exploratory qualitative research was conducted over a sample of 24 firms. The sample represented different industries to study their critical BCT and CE resources and capabilities and the L-A-D capabilities. Firm resources and capabilities were classified using the technology, organization and environment (TOE) framework.FindingsFindings show significant patterns on adoption levels of the blockchain-enabled circular economy system (BCES) and L-A-D capability development. The greater the BCES adoption capabilities, the greater the L-A-D capabilities. Organizational size and industry both influence the relationship between BCES and L-A-D. Accordingly, research propositions and a research framework are proposed.Research limitations/implicationsGiven the limited sample size, the generalizability of the findings is limited. Our findings extend supply chain resiliency research. A series of propositions provide opportunities for future research. The resource-based view and resource-dependency theories are useful frameworks to better understanding the relationship between firm resources and supply chain resilience.Practical implicationsThe results and discussion of this study serve as useful guidance for practitioners to create CE and BCT resources and capabilities for improving supply chain resiliency.Social implicationsThe study shows the socio-economic and socio-environmental importance of BCES in the COVID-19 or similar crises.Originality/valueThe study is one of the initial attempts that highlights the possibilities of BCES across multiple industries and their value during pandemics and disruptions.

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Modelling effect of valuable resources on franchise outlet performance: Dynamic sensing capability as mediator

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences ◽

10.4102/sajems.v22i1.2706 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jilson Zimuto ◽

Rachel Maritz

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

South African ◽

Fast Food ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Model ◽

Firm Resources ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Strong Base ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

Cross Sectional Design

Background: Competitive advantage and superior firm performance depend on resources and dynamic capabilities.Aim: This study aims to provide insight into the franchising industry where research on the value-dynamic sensing capability-performance relationship as part of the resource-based theory (RBT) seems to be novel. Drawing on the RBT, this study examines how valuable resources and dynamic sensing capability impact franchise outlet performance.Setting: Based on a cross-sectional design, a sample of 224 South African franchise outlet managers and owner-operators in the fast food and retailing categories was surveyed.Methods: Hypotheses were tested using a single-level structural equation model for value, dynamic sensing capability and performance.Results: The results contribute to research on RBT in the context of franchises by providing support for the assumption that firm resources and capabilities improve performance.Conclusion: The findings are expected to provide a strong base from which franchise managers and owner-operators can strategise for competitive advantage in an emerging economy like South Africa.

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Advancing conceptualisation of university entrepreneurial ecosystems: The role of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms

International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1177/0266242618821720 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 289-310 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Albert N Link ◽

Riikka M Sarala

Keyword(s):

Entrepreneurial Firms ◽

Demand Side ◽

Firm Resources ◽

Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Entrepreneurial Firm ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

Knowledge Intensive

University entrepreneurial ecosystems are increasingly important in facilitating innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities in today’s knowledge-based economies. However, we have an incomplete understanding of the demand side of university entrepreneurial ecosystems regarding the role of the entrepreneurial firm as the key user of university knowledge. We propose that use of university knowledge positively influences entrepreneurial firm performance and that the entrepreneurial firm’s resources and capabilities facilitate its ability to create value from university knowledge. We test our hypotheses on survey data of 3853 knowledge-intensive entrepreneurial firms from 10 European countries. Our study contributes to an increased understanding of the economic, societal and technological contributions of universities by empirically illustrating the role of firm resources and capabilities as moderators of value in university entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Resource Redeployment

10.1093/obo/9780199846740-0206 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Adjustment Costs ◽

Future Research ◽

Firm Boundaries ◽

Firm Resources ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

Internal Markets ◽

Expected Performance ◽

Efficient Resource ◽

Resources And Capabilities ◽

Corporate Advantage

Firm resources and capabilities provide a basis for competitive advantage over rivals. By providing a platform for profitable expansion or contraction of firm boundaries, they also underlie corporate advantage—where a corporate parent creates more value than its individual businesses could generate if they were not part of the corporate parent. This article clarifies our current understanding of resource redeployment—one mechanism through which resources might contribute to corporate advantage. Resource redeployment involves a partial or complete withdrawal of resources (and capabilities) from one use and reallocation to another opportunity inside the firm. It typically refers to redeployment of non-financial resources, such as tangible, intangible, and human capital, as we do so here. Capital might also be redeployed, but since its redeployment entails few or no sunk adjustment costs it deserves separate attention, and is only discussed briefly below to highlight similarities with resource redeployment. Resource redeployment represents an explicit preference for internal markets over external markets. Flexibility is a primary benefit for firms having potential for resource redeployment, if they can pursue opportunities more efficiently than firms relying on external markets. Having more flexibility to redeploy should inspire firms to enter markets at lower levels of expected performance and exit markets at higher levels of expected performance. More generally, firms should expand and retrench from markets more fluidly than firms lacking potential for efficient resource redeployment. While this mechanism for corporate advantage has been recently explicated in the literature, it has important precedents. Empirical examination of resource redeployment is just underway. Finally, it is important to clarify how corporate advantage tied to resource redeployment differs from other determinants of corporate advantage. Each of these issues is discussed below, along with future research opportunities.

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