The focus of this paper is on the evolution of international production by Japanese electronics firms. In the first two parts, I trace the development of Japanese production networks in Asia through three different periods. Each of these periods reflects fundamentally different strategic...

Two types of motivations exist in terms of regulatory focus: a promotion orientation concerned with advancement and achievement and a prevention orientation concerned with safety and security. The central premise of this research is that promotion-focused and prevention-focused players differ in...

These latest years have seen both an increasing development of Users Generated Content (UGC) on the Internet and a growing number of free transactions of these contents through online communities. The video game industry shares this general trend and we shall examine it in detail through the...

This work analyzes features and industrial structure of the Italian videogame market. The first section contains sales data readings, both synchronicand diachronic, that point out significant traits and features of the field ingeneral. The obtained results definitely confirm all the trends of...

This research aims at studying the impact of individual strategies, vertical collaboration and coopetition strategies on product innovation. The empirical study focuses on the video game industry and, more particularly on the strategies adopted by publishers to develop innovative products. This...

The digital creative industries exemplify innovation processes in which user communities are highly involved in product and service development, bringing new ideas, and developing tools for new product uses and environments. We explore the role of user communities in such co-innovation processes...

This paper offers an extensive review of conceptual and quantitative studies on the implications of business-to-consumer (b2c) e-commerce on mobility. To create a more comprehensive understanding of the mobility implications we also discuss the complementary side: freight transport. Most studies...

L’integrazione tra diversi canali di vendita è una delle decisioni strategiche più attuali nel settore del commercio al dettaglio. Questo lavoro si propone di analizzare alcuni dei fattori esogeni ed endogeni influenti sulle decisioni d’integrazione multicanale del retailing europeo....