The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the literature which leads to the building of the system notions that are currently widely used in industrial and technological analysis, such as, for instance, National Systems of Innovation and Technological Systems. It is shown how a coherent theoretical and methodological background can be derived from a pluralistic approach, which is built on...

This paper provides a theoretically grounded framework for designing and analysing business models for ICT services, products and systems. It critically revisits the most topical literature on business modelling, as well as general strategic management, industrial organisation and network economics literature. Business model design is interpreted as the (re)configuration of control parameters o...

a Department of Industrial Engineering South-Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran b Business Systems and Analytics Department, Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA c Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany d Departamento de...

This chapter explains the logic of structural econometric models and compares them to other types of econometric models. We provide a framework researchers can use to develop and evaluate structural econometric models. This framework pays particular attention to describing different sources of unobservables in structural models. We use our framework to evaluate several literatures in industrial...

Using the industrial economics approach to the microeconomics of banking we analyze a large bank under credit risk. Our aim is to study how a risky loan portfolio affects optimal bank behavior in the loan and deposit markets, when credit derivatives to hedge credit risk are available. We examine hedging without and with basis risk. In the absence of basis risk the usual separation result is con...

Organizational studies is a fragmented field. Its foundations are the disciplines of Psychology, Sociology, and Economics and applied fields such as Industrial Psychology, Labor Relations, Human Resource Management, Organization Development and Management. Each field of inquiry focuses on different phenomena, employs different research methods and makes different assumptions about the nature of...

Contacts for correspondence: 1 Professor of Biotechnology and Development at the ESRC Innogen Centre, Open University, UK 2 Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at Bocconi University CESPRI, Milan, Italy 3 Assistant Professor of Organisation Theory at Bocconi University CRORA, Milan, Italy 4 Researcher at the ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 5 Professor of I...

The Doctoral Program in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DRIG) provides students with advanced education and the opportunity to do research activity in these scientific fields. The program allows students to build a solid methodological background, and it fosters the development of multi-disciplinary knowledge, an open minded approach to research activities, and the ability to ...