Trial by market: the Brightstar incubation experiment

Established firms accumulate a significant body of knowledge, expertise and capabilities that are often secondary to their central revenue generating activities. How do they leverage this expertise in non-core technology into future value creation opportunities? In this paper we examine an attempt by the telecommunications firm BT to create value from the accumulated knowledge within its laboratories by setting up an incubator. While conceived by the board as a mechanism for leveraging the value of non-core technology into the workplace, corporate support for the incubator was withdrawn after only three years and prompted the incubator to partner with a venture capital firm, NVP, in the spin-out of ventures. Through analysis of this single case we observe how entering into such a relationship reduces the transaction costs of accessing complementary resources, capabilities and competences, while simultaneously reducing a number of the risks associated with venturing for both parties. Partnering with the venture capitalist allows the established firm to get its intellectual property into the market, for it to be tested by the market and further developed. �� 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Why the World Suddenly Cares About Global Supply Chains

The global value chain (GVC) concept has gained popularity as a way to analyze the international expansion and geographical fragmentation of contemporary supply chains and value creation and capture therein. It has been used broadly in academic publications that examine a wide range of global industries, and by many of the international organizations concerned with economic development. This note highlights some of the main features of GVC analysis and discusses the relationship between the core concepts of governance and upgrading. The key dynamics of contemporary global supply chains and their implications for global production and trade are illustrated by: (1) the consolidation of global value chains and the new geography of value creation and capture, with an emphasis on China; (2) the key roles of global supermarkets and private standards in agri-food supply chains; and (3) how the recent economic crisis contributes to shifting end markets and the regionalization of value chains. It concludes with a discussion of the future direction of GVC analysis and a potential collaboration with supply chain researchers. �� 2012 Institute for Supply Management, Inc.

What���s in a name: Dimensions of social learning in teacher groups

Induced by a literature review, this paper presents a framework of dimensions and indicators highlighting the underpinning aspects and values of social learning within teacher groups. Notions of social networks, communities of practice and learning teams were taken as the main perspectives to influence this social learning framework. The review exercise resulted in four dimensions: (1) practice, (2) domain and value creation, (3) collective identity and (4) organization. The indicators corresponding to these dimensions serve as the foundation for understanding social learning in practice. The framework of dimensions and indicators can be of assistance for researchers as well as teacher groups that aim to assess their views on social learning and analyse whether these views fit the learning goals of the group, or that adjustments are required. In this way, learning processes within groups of teachers can be improved.

De la cooperativa agroalimentaria a la "learning netchain". Hacia un planteamiento teorico interorganizativo e interpersonal

Se propone un planteamiento te��rico/conceptual para determinar si las relaciones interorganizativas e interpersonales de la netchain de las cooperativas agroalimentarias evolucionan hacia una learning netchain. Las propuestas del trabajo muestran que el mayor grado de asociacionismo y la mayor cooperaci��n/colaboraci��n vertical a lo largo de la cadena est��n positivamente relacionados con la posici��n horizontal de la empresa focal m��s cercana del consumidor final. Esto requiere una planificaci��n y una resoluci��n de problemas de manera conjunta, lo que est�� positivamente relacionado con el mayor flujo y diversidad de la informaci��n/conocimiento obtenido y diseminado a lo largo de la netchain. Al mismo tiempo se necesita desarrollar un contexto social en el que fluya la informaci��n/conocimiento y las nuevas ideas de manera informal y esto se logra con redes personales y, principalmente, profesionales y con redes internas y, principalmente, externas. Todo esto permitir�� una mayor satisfacci��n de los socios de la cooperativa agroalimentaria y de sus distribuidores y una mayor intensidad en I+D, convirti��ndose la netchain de la cooperativa agroalimentaria, as��, en una learning netchain.

An exploration of business model development in the commercialization of technology innovations

Research on business model development has focused on the relationships between elements of value conceptualization and organization having a linear sequence in which business models are first designed and then implemented. Another stream of research points to business model development with these elements interacting in a cyclical manner. There is a need to improve our understanding of the connective mechanisms and dynamics involved in business model development, particularly from the challenging perspective of commercializing innovations. The aim of this paper was to explore business model development during the commercialization of innovations through a case-based qualitative study. This study found from four case studies that specific elements of business model development, representative of the conceptualization of value and organizing for value creation, integrate in a dynamic and cyclical process in the commercialization of technology innovations. The study provides empirical evidence that adds new insights to literature on sequential and more interactive processes of business model development. It also contributes to literature on business model development and particularly how it relates to the commercialization of innovations.

Cocria����o de valor na distribui����o tur��stica: a for��a que vai modelar o neg��cio das ag��ncias de viagens independentes em Portugal

O contexto Darwiniano em que vivem as Ag��ncias de Viagens Independentes (AVI) em Portugal, imp��e uma estrat��gia de colabora����o em rede entre os diversos players do setor, numa inovadora e interativa filosofia de coopeti����o interorganizacional. Atualmente as contendas negociais n��o s��o mais entre empresas individuais, mas entre alian��as de m��ltiplas empresas e os fornecedores com quem interagem. Os constrangimentos, os conflitos e os obst��culos contextuais e transacionais que as AVI enfrentam, s��o considerados como um dos principais motivos que as impelem a integrar redes de coopeti����o Interorganizacionais. Foi dado maior enfoque ao setor das AVI, em Portugal, por possu��rem um peso significativo no mercado (69% em 2011), e ao tipo de alian��a ��� Grupo de Gest��o de ag��ncias de viagens (por representar 44% dessas AVI). Pretende-se nesta tese efetuar um estudo de caso da ���Alian��a RAVT���, e construir um mosaico de ideias que possam explicar a realidade de cria����o de valor entre os parceiros dentro da rede. Ser�� apresentado um modelo de neg��cio designado por ���e-Marketplace P2P com Cocria����o de valor��� para Grupos de Gest��o, elencando as premissas que obrigam �� reconfigura����o das regras de neg��cio e das rela����es dentro da constela����o de atores, visando mobiliz��-los no incremento de novas maneiras de cocriar valor.

Educa����o intercultural e educa����o Soka : pontes de dial��go na interven����o com a comunidade de refugiados

Relat��rio de est��gio de mestrado, Ci��ncias da Educa����o (Educa����o Intercultural), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Educa����o, 2014

The motives and performance of cross-border acquirers from emerging economies: Comparison between Chinese and Indian firms

During the recent decade, the world has witnessed the rapid growth of MNEs from emerging economies. Their increasing participation in cross-border mergers and acquisitions has raised great attention in the extant literature. This study evaluates the value creation from these cross-border transactions from two representative emerging countries, namely China and India, and determines factors that result in the different performance of these international acquisition activities. Cross-border acquisitions conducted by these countries��� companies indeed lead to significant shareholder wealth creation. Furthermore, Indian shareholders are more likely to benefit from deals in small cultural distance countries, while Chinese investors gain from the cross-border expansion of manufacturing companies. Location also affects the performance of cross-border acquisitions, with acquisitions into developed countries generating higher returns to shareholders. Our sample consists of 203 Indian and 63 Chinese cross-border deals over the period 2000���2010 and our results hold after controlling for various deal-level and firm-level characteristics.

Acrescentar valor �� organiza����o com a auditoria interna

Disserta����o de Mestrado Apresentado ao Instituto de Contabilidade e Administra����o do Porto para a obten����o do grau de Mestre em Auditoria, sob orienta����o de Doutora Alcina Portugal Dias

Aplica����o da filosofia Lean management:caso de estudo, aplicado �� manuten����o de edif��cios

Trabalho Final de Mestrado para obten����o do grau de Mestre em Engenharia da Manuten����o

Sustainable Development Action Plan at ISEP - From Concept to Engineering Practice

Some of the main challenges in Incorporating Sustainable Development practices into Engineering Education reside in establishing the bridge between concept and application. In particular the relation between value creation and the knowledge economy, innovation and entrepreneurship, as the main vehicles to a relevant application of the sustainable development concept, is not yet part of the majority of the engineering curricula in schools. Porto Polytechnical Engineering School (ISEP), a Global Reporting Initiative training partner in Portugal, as just presented its Sustainable Development Action Plan, with the main objective of creating a new kind of engineers, with Sustainable Development at the core of their degrees. The plan has several issues like publish an annual sustainability report, sustainable buildings, minimization of energy consumption and water policy, waste management, sustainable mobility, green procurement, EMAS certification, research and postgraduate activity and promotion of lectures and seminars in Sustainable Development.

A gest��o do risco em institui����es banc��rias: uma an��lise com recurso a medidas de avalia����o da performance ajustadas ao risco

Disserta����o de Mestrado apresentado ao Instituto de Contabilidade e Administra����o do Porto para a obten����o do grau de Mestre em Auditoria sob orienta����o do Mestre Carlos Mota

Proposta de aplica����o do sistema de custeio baseado em atividades numa empresa de presta����o de servi��os aduaneiros

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado ao Instituto de Contabilidade e Administra����o do Porto para a obten����o do grau de Mestre em Contabilidade e Finan��as, sob orienta����o de Am��lia Cristina Ferreira da Silva

Crowdsourcing innovation: a strategy to leverage enterprise innovation

Innovation is recognized by academics and practitioners as an essential competitive enabler for any company to survive, to remain competitive and to grow. Investments in tasks of R&D have not always brought the expected results. But that doesn't mean that the outcomes would not be useful to other companies of the same business area or even from another area. Thus, there is much knowledge already available in the market that can be helpful to some and profitable to others. So, the ideas and expertise can be found outside a company's boundaries and also exported from within. Information, knowledge, experience, wisdom is already available in the millions of the human beings of this planet, the challenge is to use them through a network to produce new ideas and tips that can be useful to a company with less costs. This was the reason for the emergence of the area of crowdsourcing innovation. Crowdsourcing innovation is a way of using the Web 2.0 tools to generate new ideas through the heterogeneous knowledge available in the global network of individuals highly qualified and with easy access to information and technology. So, a crowdsourcing innovation broker is an organization that mediates the communication and relationship between the seekers - companies that aspire to solve some problem or to take advantage of any business opportunity - with a crowd that is prone to give ideas based on their knowledge, experience and wisdom. This paper makes a literature review on models of open innovation, crowdsourcing innovation, and technology and knowledge intermediaries, and discusses this new phenomenon as a way to leverage the innovation capacity of enterprises. Finally, the paper outlines a research design agendafor explaining crowdsourcing innovation brokering phenomenon, exploiting its players, main functions, value creation process, and knowledge creation in order to define a knowledge metamodel of such intermediaries.

Cria����o de valor em fus��es e aquisi����es horizontais

O aumento verificado nos ��ltimos anos em fus��es e aquisi����es (F&A) resulta da op����o dos gestores para fazer face ao aumento da press��o competitiva e ou �� necessidade de crescimento r��pido. A literatura sobre os efeitos dos processos de F&A �� diversificada e as conclus��es s��o contradit��rias. Neste trabalho pretendemos verificar se o processo de F&A se traduz na cria����o de valor para o acionista da empresa adquirente. Como m��trica de avalia����o utilizamos o m��todo de an��lise dos fluxos de caixa atualizados ou o Discounted Cash-Flow (DCF). Para o efeito efetuamos um estudo de caso que vai incidir sobre uma empresa seguradora portuguesa ��� A Lusitania Companhia de Seguros, S.A. ��� que recentemente adquiriu, por fus��o por incorpora����o, a Real Seguros, S.A. Efetuamos uma an��lise de natureza quantitativa atrav��s dos dados do relat��rio e contas e encontramos evid��ncia de que o desempenho diminuiu ap��s a transa����o.