Purpose: This paper studies the impact of ICT on the productivity of the activities of the firm in the supply chain focusing on the actual use of these technologies instead of on the mere ICT investment. Approach: Approaching the research goal with the theoretical framework of the Theory of the...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the unclear relationship between industry structure and Open Innovation. The focus of the study is on firms that received external help to develop their products or that helped third parties in developing their products. The hypotheses were tested on a...

This study explores the existence of different P2P adoption rates at the national level. Adopting a new approach, focusing on the supply side of the entertainment markets, the paper analyses the impact of the current processes of concentration both in the music industry and in the retail...

Traditional closed business models have recently shown their limitations. In this paper we explore the role of key resources, and how they can be aggregated into open business models. We first examine how the nature of key resources influences the development of these models. We pay particular...