Small-medium enterprises are the backbone of the majority of world-wide economies. They are flexible, short-time responding and generally own strong competencies in the field they compete in. On the downsides however, they tend to be locally-constrained and need to receive external inputs to keep themselves innovative and pro-actively exploit their available resources and potentialities – issues only partially addressed by leading political institutions (e.g. OECD). An effective “alternative” means to cope with this concern emerges to be the implementation of open and co-creational business models. Research in this field is still currently limited. We addressed this gap by studying the collaborations between a SME and its network of partnering new ventures, which are interesting to be studied as well due to the overall condition of underdeveloped venture capital market. This work contributes to theory and practice in a number of ways. First, we evince how the implementation of a structured open business model is critical for SMEs to maximally exploit the involved advantages. Second, we provide a new model identifying the optimal conditions for SMEs to gather advantages when approaching the open innovation practice, specifically when willing to co-create value with new ventures. Third, we assert that business model innovation practice has both a precursory role as well as simultaneous development alongside open business model implementation, easing firms in a continuous improvement of their business model declinations; finally, we could empirically observe how value delivery has to be considered and valued amongst the means through which a firm can effectively innovate its business model. This study is certainly not free from limitations, particularly due to its qualitative nature; for future researches, it would be worth to keep investigating on the practical measures to be undertaken by these firms when approaching open practices, providing precise characterisations for each possible strategy undertaken.
Le piccole medie imprese (PMI) costituiscono il motore delle economie di tutto il mondo. Sono flessibili, rapide e sono solite sviluppare competenze “core” nel settore in cui competono. Ciononostante, tali imprese spesso rimangono vincolate a mercati locali e, a causa di mancanza di risorse, difficilmente riescono ad intraprendere attività volte all’innovazione, necessitando il supporto di enti esterni. L’adozione di modelli di business “open” e volti alla co-creazione di valore risulta un’ottima alternativa per colmare tali difficoltà. La ricerca nel campo risulta però ancora limitata. Abbiamo approfondito questo tema analizzando le collaborazioni stabilite da una piccola – media impresa italiana con la sua rete di new ventures: queste ultime, allo stesso tempo, data l’attuale condizione di venture capital market sottosviluppato, meritano un’attenzione ad hoc. Questo studio fornisce contributi tanto sul piano accademico quanto su quello pratico. In primo luogo, determiniamo come l’implementazione di un open business model strutturato all’interno delle PMI sia un’azione chiave per massimizzare i vantaggi derivanti da tale pratica. Secondo, proponiamo una configurazione che possa identificare le condizioni ideali per le PMI per ottenere vantaggi nell’approccio a pratiche di open innovation, in particolare in collaborazione con new ventures. Sul piano teorico invece, questo studio ci dimostra come la pratica di business model innovation abbia sia un ruolo “precursore” ma anche di sviluppo simultaneo e continuo rispetto all’implementazione di un open business model; infine, sempre in ottica di business model innovation, dimostriamo come il pilastro di “value delivery” debba essere considerato e valorizzato tra i mezzi chiave per poter innovare il business model della propria impresa. Questo studio certamente non è esente da limitazioni, soprattutto a causa della propria natura qualitativa. Per ricerche future, sarebbe opportuno continuare a sviluppare analisi mirate riguardo le misure pratiche che le PMI possano efficacemente intraprendere nell’approcciare attività di open innovation.
Open business model and co-creation of value in SMEs : the Elemaster case
CONTI, SILVIA
2017/2018
Abstract
Small-medium enterprises are the backbone of the majority of world-wide economies. They are flexible, short-time responding and generally own strong competencies in the field they compete in. On the downsides however, they tend to be locally-constrained and need to receive external inputs to keep themselves innovative and pro-actively exploit their available resources and potentialities – issues only partially addressed by leading political institutions (e.g. OECD). An effective “alternative” means to cope with this concern emerges to be the implementation of open and co-creational business models. Research in this field is still currently limited. We addressed this gap by studying the collaborations between a SME and its network of partnering new ventures, which are interesting to be studied as well due to the overall condition of underdeveloped venture capital market. This work contributes to theory and practice in a number of ways. First, we evince how the implementation of a structured open business model is critical for SMEs to maximally exploit the involved advantages. Second, we provide a new model identifying the optimal conditions for SMEs to gather advantages when approaching the open innovation practice, specifically when willing to co-create value with new ventures. Third, we assert that business model innovation practice has both a precursory role as well as simultaneous development alongside open business model implementation, easing firms in a continuous improvement of their business model declinations; finally, we could empirically observe how value delivery has to be considered and valued amongst the means through which a firm can effectively innovate its business model. This study is certainly not free from limitations, particularly due to its qualitative nature; for future researches, it would be worth to keep investigating on the practical measures to be undertaken by these firms when approaching open practices, providing precise characterisations for each possible strategy undertaken.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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