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Measuring the openness of innovation is essential to understanding whether and under which conditions increasing openness is beneficial for organizations. However, no consensus has been so far achieved on which dimensions characterize the openness of innovation, which approach should be used to measure it, or which unit of analysis should be adopted. This paper proposes an approach, named ATOM (Aggregative Technique for Openness Measurement), to characterize and measure the openness of innovation, rooted in the concepts of knowledge supply (KS) and innovation practice (IP). As prescribed by the confirmation phase of theory building model, the approach has been successfully applied to a real innovation project. The paper contributes to clarifying the concept of innovation openness and attempts to improve its measurement by adopting a micro-level unit of analysis (i.e., single KS within an innovation project) as well as dimensions that extant literature considers relevant to managing external collaborations. The proposed approach can also support firms involved in an innovation project to (i) identify and measure the criticality of knowledge supplies, (ii) assess the openness of the adopted innovation practices, and (iii) support ex-post learning on the way the project was managed.
Nicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. Measuring the Openness of Innovation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2205 .
AMA StyleNicola Bellantuono, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi. Measuring the Openness of Innovation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2205.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. 2021. "Measuring the Openness of Innovation." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2205.
Unresilient and fragile regions need methods and data able to make policy-makers acknowledge the specific criticalities by which they are affected, so as to build effective development strategies and policies. This research explores whether and to what extent well-being and sustainability measurement frameworks are able to recognize crisis areas. We identified Taranto (Italy), declared as both a National Priority Contaminated Site and a Complex Industrial Crisis area, as a paradigmatic and extreme case of crisis areas and adopted the single case approach to address our research question. After reviewing several frameworks able to measure well-being at local level, we focused on Benessere Equo e Sostenibile dei Territori (Equitable and Sustainable Territorial Well-being, BESdT). We used two aggregate indexes to analyze data, namely the Adjusted Mazziotta-Pareto Index and the Adjusted Differences Mean Index. The study shows that, although BESdT does detect some criticalities of the examined area, it seems not able to adequately frame the multifaceted crisis that affects the area of Taranto. Even in presence of a full-blown crisis, the problematic situation does not always reflect into lower territorial performance, neither at the level of single indicators nor at the level of entire domains. Such discrepancy appears to be particularly evident within the economic domain. The paper ends with a discussion on the research and policy implications and some proposals for further research.
Nicola Bellantuono; Francesco Paolo Lagrasta; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. Well-Being and Sustainability in Crisis Areas: The Case of Taranto. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1576 .
AMA StyleNicola Bellantuono, Francesco Paolo Lagrasta, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi. Well-Being and Sustainability in Crisis Areas: The Case of Taranto. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1576.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicola Bellantuono; Francesco Paolo Lagrasta; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. 2021. "Well-Being and Sustainability in Crisis Areas: The Case of Taranto." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1576.
Sustainability reporting is the process by which companies describe how they deal with their own economic, environmental, and social impacts, thus making stakeholders able to recognize the value of sustainable practices. As stressed in the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, which act as a de facto standard for sustainability reporting, sustainable reports should take into account the stakeholders’ view. In particular, engaging stakeholders is essential to carry out the materiality analysis, by which organizations can identify their own more relevant sustainability aspects. Yet, on the one hand, the existing guidelines do not provide specific indications on how to get stakeholders actually engaged; on the other hand, research on quantitative techniques to support stakeholder engagement in materiality analysis is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is the development of a quantitative structured approach based on multi-attribute group decision-making techniques to effectively and reliably support stakeholder engagement during materiality analysis in sustainability reporting. As it more strictly guides the reporting process, the proposed approach at the same time simplifies materiality analysis and makes it more reliable. Though any company can adopt the approach, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to particularly benefit from it, due to the quite limited implementation effort that is required. With this respect, the approach has been validated on a sample of Italian SMEs belonging to different sectors.
Nicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach. Sustainability 2016, 8, 379 .
AMA StyleNicola Bellantuono, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi. Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (4):379.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi. 2016. "Capturing the Stakeholders’ View in Sustainability Reporting: A Novel Approach." Sustainability 8, no. 4: 379.
“Green Campus” is a project developed by Politecnico di Bari, an Italian technical university, interested to start a “journey” towards sustainability. This paper illustrates the Green Campus project through the lens of two organizational theories, i.e. the resource-based view (RBV) and the dynamic capabilities theory (DCT). RBV is adopted to present the specific resources owned by Politecnico di Bari and analyze their usefulness for developing the project. DCT is used to describe the capabilities which Politecnico di Bari should leverage on to integrate, build, and reconfigure resources in order to meet the challenges of sustainability and actually implement the project. To the authors’ knowledge, neither RBV nor DCT have been still used to study organizations different from firms. The novel field of application of these theories is an interesting insight of the paper. Moreover, this study contributes to give a theoretical foundation to the topic of sustainable university, so covering a lack of the extant literature. Finally, it suggests specific directions in terms of resources and capabilities that universities need to commit to a sustainable future through the creation of a green campus.
Nicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi; Rosa Maria Dangelico. Assessing Resources and Dynamic Capabilities to Implement the “Green Campus” Project. World Sustainability Series 2016, 213 -227.
AMA StyleNicola Bellantuono, Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo, Barbara Scozzi, Rosa Maria Dangelico. Assessing Resources and Dynamic Capabilities to Implement the “Green Campus” Project. World Sustainability Series. 2016; ():213-227.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNicola Bellantuono; Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo; Barbara Scozzi; Rosa Maria Dangelico. 2016. "Assessing Resources and Dynamic Capabilities to Implement the “Green Campus” Project." World Sustainability Series , no. : 213-227.