Nouveaux Matériaux, Systèmes Intelligents et Entreprises Innovantes

@article{del_giudice_158,

title = {The microlevel actions undertaken by owner?managers in improving the sustainability practices of cultural and creative small and medium enterprises: A United Kingdom-Italy comparison},

author = {Manlio Del Giudice and Zaheer Khan Khan and Muthu De Silva and Veronica Scuotto and Francesco Caputo and Elias Carayannis},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.2237},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-01},

journal = {Journal Of Organizational Behavior},

volume = {38},

number = {9},

pages = {1396-1414},

abstract = {This article discusses microlevel actions undertaken by owner?managers, and how such actions affect stakeholders in enhancing the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the knowledge on which is lacking in the extant literature. The paper, by adopting an inductive analytical approach, draws key insights from the literature on microfoundations and sustainability and evidence from representatives of 5 Cultural and Creative Industry SMEs in Italy and of 5 in the United Kingdom. The findings suggest that owner?managers play a crucial role when engaging in sustainability activities jointly with employees and other stakeholders, through which individual?level actions enhance collective organizational?level sustainability practices. The U.K. and Italian cases highlight 2 contrasting approaches to dealing with sustainability; thus, the paper contributes to the emerging literature on SME microfoundations and sustainability.},

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@article{scuotto_160,

title = {A multiple buyer - supplier relationship in the context of SMEs' digital supply chain management},

author = {Veronica Scuotto and Francesco Caputo and Manuel Villasalero and Manlio Del Giudice},

url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537287.2017.1375149},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-01},

journal = {Production Planning & Control},

volume = {28},

number = {16},

pages = {1378-1388},

abstract = {By underlining the relevance of the use of ICTs, knowledge sharing and electronic markets for SMEs, it emerges the need for stimulating a debate on digitisation process of supply chain management (SCM). Electronic infrastructure in the service sector are reducing each kind of cost and improving multiply buyer-supplier relationships, facilitating negotiations and transactions. However, since the coordination costs are still high, the use of ICTs is limited. This phenomenon thus attracts the interests of scholars and practitioners. Although it still needs to further investigate. Especially, the optimal use of ICTs within SMEs' SCM have not been studied yet. Therefore, by leveraging on four proxies: ICTs specialised human resources, knowledge sharing activities, buyer-supplier relationships, adoption of electronic markets this optimal was analysed via structural equation modelling based on a sample of 1254 SMEs operating in the service sector in Italy.},

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@article{randhawa_3685,

title = {Knowledge collaboration between organizations and online communities: the role of open innovation intermediaries},

author = {Krithika Randhawa and Emmanuel Josserand and Danielle Logue and Jochen Schweitzer},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JKM-09-2016-0423},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-01},

journal = {Journal Of Knowledge Management},

volume = {21},

number = {6},

pages = {1293-1318},

abstract = {Purpose - This research paper aims to examine how open innovation (OI) intermediaries facilitate

knowledge collaboration between organizations and online user communities. Drawing on a Community

of Practice (CoP) perspective on knowledge, the study lays out a framework of the knowledge boundary

management mechanisms (and associated practices) that intermediaries deploy in enabling client

organizations to engage in online community-based OI.

Design/methodology/approach - This research is based on an exploratory case study of an OI

intermediary and 18 client organizations that engage with online user communities on the

intermediary's platform. Results incorporate both the intermediary and clients' perspective, based

on analysis of intermediary and client interviews, clients' online community projects and other

archival data.

Findings - Results reveal that OI intermediaries deploy three knowledge boundary management

mechanisms - syntactic, semantic and pragmatic - each underpinned by a set of practices.

Together, these mechanisms enable knowledge transfer, translation and transformation,

respectively, and thus lead to cumulatively richer knowledge collaboration outcomes at the

organization-community boundary. The findings show that the pragmatic mechanism reinforces

both semantic and syntactic mechanisms, and is hence the most critical to achieving effective

knowledge collaboration in community-based OI settings.

Practical implications - The findings suggest that OI intermediaries have to implement all three

boundary management mechanisms to successfully enable knowledge collaboration for

community-based OI. More specifically, intermediaries need to expand their focus beyond the

development of digital platforms, to include nuanced efforts at building organizational commitment

to community engagement.

Originality/value - Drawing on the CoP view, this study integrates the knowledge management

literature into the OI literature to conceptualize the role of OI intermediaries in shaping knowledge

collaboration between organizations and communities. In engaging with the interactive nature of

knowledge exchange in such multi-actor settings, this research extends the firm-centric theorization of

knowledge that currently dominates the existing OI research.

Keywords Communities of practice, Open innovation, Knowledge management,

Innovation intermediaries

Paper type Research paper},

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@article{zheng_2589,

title = {The impact of regional and institutional factors on labour productive performance - Evidence from the Township and Village Enterprise sector in China},

author = {Lucy (Ping) ZHENG and Michael Batuo and David Shepherd},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17301237},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {World Development},

volume = {96},

pages = {591-598},

abstract = {This paper investigates the impact of regional and institutional factors on labor productivity in China's Township and Village Enterprise (TVE) sector, one of the pillar industries of the economy. Employing a balanced provincial panel dataset, we find a significant variation in the factors determining regional labor productivity between the three macro-regions. The factors of capital investment intensity, foreign intensity, and export intensity behave differently with a significant regional diversity. Only human capital, the real wage, and firm size are identified as the common determinants across regions. A strong self-reinforcing effect has been found with a high degree of persistence in the behavior of, and hence slow or negligible convergence in labor productivity between regions. We find that the labor efficiency gains have been generated more from internal rather than external economies of scale across regions as well as the country as a whole. We also find that the government privatization reforms have had both a short run and increasingly long-term positive impact on the TVE labor productivity across the regions. This finding may indicate that institutional privatization can be an effective tool in promoting industrialization and labor productive performance in China as well as in other transitional economies.},

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@article{charki_3686,

title = {The paradoxical effects of legal intervention over unethical information technology use: A rational choice theory perspective},

author = {Mohamed Hédi Charki and Emmanuel Josserand and Nabila Boukef},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2016.07.001},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {Journal Of Strategic Information Systems},

volume = {26},

number = {1},

pages = {58-76},

abstract = {While the IS literature offers rich insights into the kinds, causes and consequences of

unethical information technology use (UITU), we know little about the degree to which

legal intervention may mitigate UITU. Our research aims at understanding how legal intervention could mitigate UITU by influencing the cost-benefit analysis in determining the

decision to commit such unethical use of IT. Our contributions are twofold. First, we provide testable propositions on the role of legal intervention. Second, we offer an innovative

take on intervention - conceived as a multi-mechanism process that adapts to UITU as well

as to the way IT users negotiate the IT artifact.},

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@article{villeseche_3695,

title = {Formal women-only networks: literature review and propositions},

author = {Florence Villesèche and Emmanuel Josserand},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PR-03-2015-0074},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {Personnel Review},

volume = {46},

number = {5},

pages = {1004-1018},

abstract = {Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the emerging literature on formal women-only business

networks and outline propositions to develop this under-theorised area of knowledge and stimulate

future research.

Design/methodology/approach - The authors review the existing literature on formal internal and

external women-only networks and use the broader social capital and network literature to frame their

arguments and develop propositions.

Findings - Propositions are developed regarding how both internal and external formal women-only

business networks can be of value for members, firms/organisations and the wider social group of

women in business.

Research limitations/implications - The authors focus on the distinction between external and internal

formal women-only networks while also acknowledging the broader diversity that can characterise such

networks. Their review provides the reader with an insight into the state of the art and a set of propositions

that present opportunities for future research.

Practical implications - The paper provides insights into how women in business, organisations and

wider society can leverage value from both internal and external formal women-only business networks.

Social implications - The paper contributes to research showing that the social structure of interactions

and context can impact women's standing in the workplace.

Originality/value - The paper sheds light on the under-studied and under-theorised phenomenon of formal

women-only business networks. Beyond the individual member level, the authors suggest that such networks

can be of value for organisations and the wider social group of women in management and leadership positions.

Keywords Gender, Networking, Career development, Qualitative, Literature review, Formal networks,

Women-only networks

Paper type General review},

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@article{chentsov_3306,

title = {An exact algorithm with linear complexity for a problem of visiting megalopolises},

author = {Alexander Chentsov and M. Yu. KHACHAI and Daniil KHACHAI},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0081543816090054#citeas},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings Of The Steklov Institute Of Mathematics},

volume = {295},

number = {Suppl 1},

pages = {38-46},

abstract = {A problem of visiting megalopolises with a fixed number of "entrances" and precedence relations defined in a special way is studied. The problem is a natural generalization of the classical traveling salesman problem. For finding an optimal solution, we give a dynamic programming scheme, which is equivalent to a method of finding a shortest path in an appropriate acyclic oriented weighted graph. We justify conditions under which the complexity of the algorithm depends on the number of megalopolises polynomially, in particular, linearly.},

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@article{josserand_3696,

title = {Balancing present needs and future options: how employees leverage social networks with clients},

author = {Emmanuel Josserand and Achim Schmitt and Stefano Borzillo},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JBS-01-2016-0003},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Business Strategy},

volume = {38},

number = {1},

pages = {14-21},

abstract = {Purpose



This paper aims to analyze how business units can use their employees' external social capital to explore and exploit the resources available in their environment. Based on multiple interviews with the employees of the global commodity firm Gamma Chemical (around 50,000 employees), the research aims at gaining an understanding of the contextual conditions required to successfully build and leverage individuals' external social client network ties for business unit ambidexterity.

Design/methodology/approach



The authors conducted a single-case study at Gamma Chemical that entailed 33 semi-directive interviews, each of which lasted 1-4 h, at different organizational levels (ranging from top-level management to production workers). We had access to three regional business units. The interviews addressed the links between the individuals in the business units and external actors. The authors also collected information about the company's strategic objectives, the local competitive environment and work organization. Open-ended questions were used to allow the interviewees to freely relate anecdotes about their own network development. In particular, the authors asked the respondents to identify business contacts with whom they interacted privately and to describe the relationships.

Findings



The research findings are two-fold. First, and contrary to prior studies, the authors find that individuals' social capital contributes to both exploration and exploitation at the business unit level. Second, developing and leveraging individuals' external social capital requires a specific organizational context at the business unit level that allows employees to develop and nurture their personal business relationships with clients.

Research limitations/implications



The study is limited by the scope of the sample (a study of one large multinational firm). Further research conducted in similar contexts may therefore be useful for comparability purposes and to generalize the results.

Practical implications



Several practical recommendations describe how managers can effectively make use of their employees' social connections with clients. In particular, the results suggest that managers should seek business unit flexibility on the basis of team-based structures, an autonomous leadership style and by actively creating a degree of critical social network tie redundancy, encouraging a shared network culture. These three specific conditions allow employees' personal client networks to not only flourish but also contribute to business unit ambidexterity.

Originality/value



Prior social capital studies have analyzed intra-firm and inter-firm relationships in terms of contributing to firm ambidexterity. However, these findings have often been difficult to translate into specific organizational levels. Given business units' critical role in identifying and implementing business opportunities for a firm, the authors focus on the micro-foundations of exploratory and exploitative learning by using a social capital perspective to explore the link between employees' private external social relationships with clients and business unit ambidexterity. In this way, we contribute to the social capital literature and research on business unit ambidexterity and to extant contextual ambidexterity research by specifying the conditions that help firms develop and leverage their employees' own external social capital for exploration and exploitation.},

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@article{ding_2590,

title = {Assessing the economic performance of an environmental sustainable supply chain in reducing environmental externalities},

author = {H Ding and Q Liu and Lucy (Ping) ZHENG},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221716303058},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

journal = {European Journal Of Operational Research},

volume = {255},

number = {2},

pages = {463-480},

abstract = {This study investigates the mechanism that motivates supply chain firms to reduce environmental externalities while balancing the economic feasibility of the supply chain system under environmentally constrained circumstances in a competitive market. Taking government policy incentives into account, a quantitative model of an integrated supply chain that incorporates sustainable constraints is formulated to optimize supply chain firms' operational strategies of producing environmental friendly products (EFPs). This study contributes to the literature with a better understanding the interplay and interrelation of multiple sustainable constraints and their impact on supply chain firms' collaborative decisions. Our findings suggest that the decisions of operating EFPs are subject to sustainable constraints and that the government policy incentives play a dominant role overseeing supply chain firms' environmental behaviors toward sustainability.},

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@article{tognevi_77,

title = {A multi-scale modeling method for heterogeneous structures without scale separation using a filter-based homogenization scheme},

author = {Amen Tognevi and Mohamed Guerich and Julien Yvonnet},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nme.5200},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-10-01},

journal = {International Journal For Numerical Methods In Engineering},

volume = {108},

number = {1},

pages = {mars-25},

abstract = {A method is proposed to compute the response of highly heterogeneous structures by constructing homogenized models when no scale separation can be assumed. The technique is based on an extended homogenization scheme where the averaging operators are replaced by linear filters to cut off fine scale fluctuations, while maintaining locally varying mechanical fields with larger wavelength. As a result, the constitutive law at an intermediate scale, called mesoscale, arises to be naturally nonlocal by construction, where the kernel operator is fully constructed by computations on the unit cell associated with the microstructure.},

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@article{josserand_3700,

title = {Labour Standards in Global Value Chains: Disentangling Workers' Voice, Vicarious Voice,        Power Relations, and Regulation},

author = {Emmanuel Josserand and Sarah Kaine},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1038530ar},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-10-01},

journal = {Relations Industrielles-Industrial Relations},

volume = {71},

number = {4},

pages = {741-767},

abstract = {Recent research has started to explore the complexity, limitations, and

potential of the regulation of labour standards in global value chains

(GVCs). Nevertheless, we still lack a framework integrating the contextual

determinants, processes, regulatory mechanisms, and outcomes of the

regulation of labour standards in GVCs. This paper identifies the key

processes in play as workers' voice, vicarious voice, international campaigning,

and multi-scalar industrial action and shows how such processes lead to

particular forms of labour regulation in GVCs. Two pathways are identified

that include context variables and processes and lead to the implementation

of regulatory mechanisms: the consumer power pathway and the labour

power pathway. We then describe and analyze the factors that determine

the shift from implementation to actual outcomes thereby contributing to a

better understanding of the issue in theory and practice.},

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@article{bueno_merino_2725,

title = {Enjeux de la différenciation selon le genre dans l'accompagnement collectif de la femme potentiellement créatrice},

author = {Pascale Bueno Merino and Marie-Hélène Duchemin},

url = {https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1051677ar},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-07-01},

journal = {Management International},

volume = {20},

number = {4},

pages = {90-112},

abstract = {L'objectif de cet article consiste à identifier les enjeux de la différenciation selon le genre dans l'accompagnement collectif de la femme potentiellement créatrice. A partir d'une démarche abductive, nous montrons que la mise en place de collectifs de femmes, dans la phase ante-création, est génératrice de confiance en soi. Le caractère bienveillant, empathique et non compétitif du groupe exclusivement féminin facilite, pour certaines femmes candidates à la création, la déconstruction de stéréotypes de genre sur l'entrepreneuriat féminin et atténue le sentiment de culpabilité lié à la difficulté à concilier projet entrepreneurial et vie familiale. En d'autres termes, la participation de la femme potentiellement créatrice à un collectif féminin répond à un besoin psychologique d'approbation externe qui peut faire défaut, notamment au sein de la famille. Toutefois, la pratique de l'accompagnement collectif au féminin dans la phase ante-création présente certaines limites. Ces dernières résultent de l'importance accordée par certaines femmes à la mise en place d'un environnement mixte pour le partage d'expériences entrepreneuriales diverses et le développement de réseaux d'affaires.},

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@article{laifi_3701,

title = {Legitimation in practice: A new digital publishing business model},

author = {Amira Laifi and Emmanuel Josserand},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.003},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-07-01},

journal = {Journal Of Business Research},

volume = {69},

number = {7},

pages = {2343-2352},

abstract = {This research studies the legitimation practices at Cyberlibris, a company introducing the innovative business

model of a digital library to the field of publishing. The objective is to better understand how innovative actors

deploy proactive strategies in order to acquire the legitimacy which is vital to their success. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the practices of legitimation with particular focus on the sequence of the process and

the role played by the dimensions of legitimation at each stage. The results propose an integrative framework

of legitimation strategies based on four dimensions: the nature of legitimacy, and three key aspects of practice,

namely, the subject of legitimation, the context, and the target audience. The study also captures the iterative

and non-linear nature of the bricolage that characterises legitimation in practice, thus furthering our understanding of how the process of legitimation unfolds. Finally, we provide an account of how digitalisation can lead to

innovation in the creative industries.},

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@article{lebon_2852,

title = {Understanding dental CAD/CAM for restorations - dental milling machines from a mechanical engineering viewpoint  Part B: Labside milling machines},

author = {Nicolas Lebon and Laurent Tapie and Francois Duret and Jean-Pierre Attal},

url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27274561/},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-06-01},

journal = {International Journal Of Computerized Dentistry},

volume = {19},

number = {2},

pages = {115-134},

abstract = {Nowadays, dental numerical controlled (NC) milling machines are available for dental laboratories (labside solution) and dental production centers. This article provides a mechanical engineering approach to NC milling machines to help dental technicians understand the involvement of technology in digital dentistry practice. The technical and economic criteria are described for four labside and two production center dental NC milling machines available on the market. The technical criteria are focused on the capacities of the embedded technologies of milling machines to mill prosthetic materials and various restoration shapes. The economic criteria are focused on investment cost and interoperability with third-party software. The clinical relevance of the technology is discussed through the accuracy and integrity of the restoration. It can be asserted that dental production center milling machines offer a wider range of materials and types of restoration shapes than labside solutions, while labside solutions offer a wider range than chairside solutions. The accuracy and integrity of restorations may be improved as a function of the embedded technologies provided. However, the more complex the technical solutions available, the more skilled the user must be. Investment cost and interoperability with third-party software increase according to the quality of the embedded technologies implemented. Each private dental practice may decide which fabrication option to use depending on the scope of the practice.},

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@article{hoang_51,

title = {Determining the Size of RVE for Nonlinear Random Composites in an Incremental Computational Homogenization Framework},

author = {Trung Hieu Hoang and Mohamed Guerich and Julien Yvonnet},

url = {https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EM.1943-7889.0001057},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-05-01},

journal = {Journal Of Engineering Mechanics},

volume = {142},

number = {5},

pages = {4016018.1 -4016018.11},

abstract = {In this paper, the authors address the issue of determining the size of a representative volume element (RVE) in the case of nonlinear random composites with either elastoplastic or elasto-viscoplastic phases. In such a case, the general form of the effective constitutive behavior is not known in advance and the response must be evaluated either by direct numerical computations on the RVE or by an appropriate approximation scheme.},

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@article{lebon_2497,

title = {Understanding dental CAD/CAM for restorations - dental milling machines from a mechanical engineering viewpoint. Part A: chairside milling machines},

author = {Nicolas Lebon and Laurent Tapie and Francois Duret and Jean-Pierre Attal},

url = {http://www.quintpub.com/journals/jcd/abstract.php?article_id=16182},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-03-01},

journal = {International Journal Of Computerized Dentistry},

volume = {19},

number = {1},

pages = {45-62},

abstract = {The dental milling machine is an important device in the dental CAD/CAM chain. Nowadays, dental numerical controlled (NC) milling machines are available for dental surgeries (chairside solution). This article provides a mechanical engineering approach to NC milling machines to help dentists understand the involvement of technology in digital dentistry practice. First, some technical concepts and definitions associated with NC milling machines are described from a mechanical engineering viewpoint. The technical and economic criteria of four chairside dental NC milling machines that are available on the market are then described. The technical criteria are focused on the capacities of the embedded technologies of these milling machines to mill both prosthetic materials and types of shape restorations. The economic criteria are focused on investment costs and interoperability with third-party software. The clinical relevance of the technology is assessed in terms of the accuracy and integrity of the restoration.},

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@article{clegg_3702,

title = {The Transformative Power of Network Dynamics: A Research Agenda},

author = {Stewart Clegg and Emmanuel Josserand and Ajay Mehra and Tyrone Pitsis},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616629047},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Organization Studies},

volume = {37},

number = {3},

pages = {277-291},

abstract = {The emergence and proliferation of network forms of organization has sparked interest and debate in organization studies. We have learned much about the effects of networks but our understanding of how they are formed, how they change, and how networks can themselves possess agential properties that make them complex social actants is limited. In selecting papers for this special issue, we were persuaded by arguments that our understanding of networks and their transformative power can benefit from greater attention to culture and discourse, which provide meaning and direction to network participants and are indispensable agentic resources. The special issue contains two sets of papers. The first set debates the articulation between the organized and emergent dynamics of networks and its impact on knowledge exchanges and innovation. The second set seeks to inform our understanding of the manifestations of power in network dynamics. For each section, we provide a tentative research agenda. Our hope is that this special issue will both advance our ability to conceptualize, measure and manage network evolution and enhance our understanding of the transformative impact of network dynamics on organizations and society.},

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