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on Economics of Strategic Management |
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Issue of 2024‒06‒10
two papers chosen by João José de Matos Ferreira, Universidade da Beira Interior |
| By: | Adelia Fatikhova; Fabrizio Fusillo; Sandro Montresor; |
| Abstract: | This work investigates the role of external exchanges of green knowledge on the regional development of new green technological specializations. We extend the recombinant knowledge framework to commodity-embodied knowledge and posit that inter-industry inter-regional flows of commodities, in which new green knowledge gets incorporated, are a channel through which regions can increase their opportunities of specializing in new green technologies and diversify in a more exploratory manner. We further expect these dynamics to be stronger when foreign rather than domestic embodied flows are concerned. By combining the EUREGIO input-output database with patent data, we test our hypotheses on a sample of 237 EU (NUTS2) regions over the period 2000-2019. We measure the regions’ centrality in the network of inter-regional flows of embodied green knowledge (GreenFlowNet) and exploit regional network centrality in a model of related diversification for green technologies. Results show that the centrality of regions in the network is positively associated with green diversification, making this process more exploratory. We also find that the regional ability to acquire new green-techs is mainly associated with the centrality in outward flows of green knowledge towards other regions rather than inward ones. Lastly, we find that regions’ green-tech diversification seems to be enabled (at the extensive margin) primarily by their centrality in the foreign network and accelerated (at the intensive margin) by their centrality in the domestic one. Policy implications are drawn accordingly. |
| Keywords: | green technologies, diversification, relatedness, knowledge networks |
| JEL: | R11 R15 O52 O33 |
| Date: | 2024–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:egu:wpaper:2413&r= |
| By: | R. Bawack (Audencia Business School); I. D. Tchokoté |
| Abstract: | Business games seem like a sustainable solution to business and entrepreneurship education. Still, knowledge on the topic is so dispersed that educators lack a clear understanding of the conceptual path linking business games to business and entrepreneurship education. This article proposed to synthesize academic literature on business games. It analyzes bibliographic data from 733 documents from the Web of Science core collection published over the past 65 years. The results provide rich content on the main knowledge clusters in business game research, the key concepts driving each cluster, the relationships between them, emerging trends, and the seminal papers business scholars and practitioners could use to deepen their knowledge of each cluster. The results also led to a conceptual framework describing current research on business games in entrepreneurship education, identifying key research gaps, and proposing a research agenda that could help scholars make meaningful contributions to the entrepreneurship niche in business games research. Specifically, technology acceptance and experiential learning literature have laid the theoretical foundations for understanding the role of business games in business and entrepreneurial education. Research has mainly focused on higher-education students' entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as outcomes. |
| Keywords: | Business Game, Bibliometric Analysis, Review, Entrepreneurship, Education |
| Date: | 2024–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04558491&r= |