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[...]decision-makers face new conditions that affect their reasoning and their customer validation, forcing them to reframe their marketing operations (Syam and Sharma, 2018). [...]this issue contributes to family firm research. The third paper, "Assessing the AI-CRM technology capability for sustaining family businesses in times of crisis: the moderating role of strategic intent”, by Ranjan Chaudhuri Sheshadri Chatterjee, Sascha Kraus and Demetris Vrontis, investigates the potential for artificial-intelligence-integrated customer relationship management (AI-CRM) technology to sustain family businesses in times of crisis, assessing the moderating role of strategic intent. The sixth article, entitled "Effective business model adaptations in family SMEs in response to the COVID-19 crisis”, by Sofia Brunelli, Rafaela Gjergji, Valentina Lazzarotti, Salvatore Sciascia and Federico Visconti, tested the effects of two major business model adaptations – namely changes in value proposition and changes in target market – on a sample of 96 family SMEs.
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Food industry-specific challenges such as reduced product life cycles, competitive time-to-market race and a growing need to comply with legal and voluntary quality and supply chain requirements imposed by various value chain actors have accelerated the need for innovation over the last decades. [...]the interrelation between OI and food industry is still offering several opportunities for scholars as the recent events related to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the vulnerability of global supply chains and additionally pressured companies to look for different, more flexible and more collaborative approaches to innovation and new business models (Chesbrough, 2020;FAO, 2020a;Walker et al., 2021). Human resource management practices fostered the participation of employees in organizational dynamics and boosted the levels of vigour, dedication and absorption at work, stimulating their commitment in inbound and outbound flows of ideas, knowledge and skills, setting the conditions for OI. [...]the study remarks on the opportunities for agritech in becoming open, creating a tied network with supplier and including the customers in the development of new offerings.
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Frugal innovation is about achieving more value while using fewer resources. This concept has found application across multiple domains, ranging from healthcare and transport to energy and manufacturing. This straddling of multidisciplinary domains fragments our academic understanding of the literature in this field. This state-of-the-art literature review, performed using multiple correspondence analyses across 199 articles, along with a Delphi study of prolific authors and practitioners working on frugal innovation, integrates multidisciplinary academic literature to offer a holistic picture of the current scholarly literature, outlining its key theoretical approaches and providing a glimpse of the future of the field. This study outlines the relevance of frugal innovations in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, establishing the key areas for future research in frugal innovation, such as new product development, ease of use, the performance of frugal innovations, strategy, and sustainability, among others.
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Despite the breadth in the scope of scholarly literature concerning both Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) respectively, intersectional research of these two domains is scarce. This paper explores whether and to what extent ICT and digital transformation (DT) are recognized within the CE research domain. Based on the analysis of articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection database - considered one of the most influential sources, with various records offering citation for numerous different academic areas - this study reveals six predominant research trends: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Digital transformation (DT), Innovation, Performance, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change.
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In today's competitive world, globalization touches all industries. The open innovation (OI) paradigm has garnered increasing importance in academic research and industrial applications. Considering this interest, this paper aims to synthetize up-to-date findings, outline the intellectual structure of OI within the manufacturing research domain, and suggest a future research agenda. Building upon the content analysis of 239 articles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus databases, using homogeneity analysis by means of alternating least squares (HOMALS), this study reveals the theoretical underpinnings, research trends, and methodologies of this research field. Our analysis revealed that the study of sustainability, commitment-based human resource practices, and Industry 4.0 (I40) represent important future research streams for OI in the manufacturing industry. In collaborating throughout the supply chain, manufacturing firms could minimize production waste, ensure better working conditions, and adapt business models. In the “new normal” posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to study the effects of managerial competencies, employee training and development, and reward systems on open cultures in manufacturing firms. This study goes on to outline research opportunities in I40, particularly regarding knowledge exchange and technology transfer among partners and OI's influence on the adoption of I40 technologies.