Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the evolving and articulated role of purchasing as a “mediator” between the company’s customers and suppliers, thus showing the opportunities connected to the evolution of purchasing from a business function to a strategic business for companies....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of “formalization” in business networks as an instrument of industrial policy. Formalization in business networks is not a debated topic but it can affect organizational and inter-organizational dynamics considerably. The aim of the...

Purpose This paper explores the most recent contributions to interpreting customer-driven supply chains (CDSCs) under the IMP lens, focusing on the main characteristics that emerged from a review of the relevant literature. The purpose of this paper is to offer a holistic interpretative...

Il saggio sintetizza i risultati della ricerca pubblicata nel volume "Un tesoro emergente. Le medie imprese italiane dell’era globale", curato da Riccardo Varaldo, Daniele Dalli, Riccardo Resciniti e Annalisa Tunisini e pubblicato da FrancoAngeli. La ricerca si è focalizzata sull’analisi...

Collaborative innovation has led to the development of the concept of 'innovation networks' - defined as evolving systems of mutual dependency, based on resource relationships in which systemic character is the outcome of interactions, processes, procedures and institutionalization.When...