Drivers of new product success in the Italian sport shoe cluster of Montebelluna

Ciappei, Cristiano; Simoni, Christian

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“…Carillo and Franza (2006), Cheng and Shiu (2008), Ciappei and Simoni (2005), Cooper (1990), Cooper and Kleinschmidt (1986), Cooper et al (2004), Droge et al (2008), Gerwin and Barrowman (2002), Gupta and Wilemon (1990), Hamm and Symonds (2006), Henard and Szymanski (2001), Hilletofth (2009), Holger (2002, Iansiti (1995), Jain (2001), Karlsson and Åhlström (1996), Kess et al (2010), Kotler et al (2009), Kärkkäinen et al (2001, Lummus and Vokurka (1999), Schmidt et al (2009), Park et al, 2010, Swink et al (1996, Van Kleef et al (2005), and Wheelwright and Clark (1992).…”

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Coordinating new product development with supply chain management

Hilletofth

Eriksson

2011

Industrial Management &Amp; Data Systems

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Purpose: This research seeks to form an understanding of how new product development (NPD) relates to supply chain management (SCM), why the two fields should be coordinated, and how this may be done.Design/methodology/approach: This research uses a literature review and case study research. The case study considers a Swedish company that operates on a global basis in the furniture industry. Empirical data has been collected mainly from in-depth interviews with key persons representing senior and middle management in the case company.Findings: This research stresses the need to produce innovative, value-adding products, as well as the necessity to quickly deliver them to the market. Companies that face mature business environments may encounter problems due to a high emphasis on either the value creation processes, or on the value delivery processes. Therefore, NPD activities need to be coordinated with SCM activities on a strategic level, lest competitiveness will be lost. Research limitations/implications:The research is limited to one case company; replication studies would enhance understanding of the studied phenomenon. There is a wide need for research exploring how various parts of demand and supply chains should be managed in order to fully utilize the advantages of the consumeroriented enterprise. Practical implications:This research provides insights for researchers and practitioners on how to coordinate and balance NPD (demand-side) with SCM (supply-side) activities. It highlights that companies should organize themselves around understanding how consumer value is created and how these processes may be coordinated to provide that value. The two processes must be given equal attention and importance to avoid sub-optimization. Originality/value:The need for coordinating NPD and SCM activities has been emphasized in the literature but still remains relatively unexplored. This research contributes by investigating this issue further.

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Coordinating new product development with supply chain management

Hilletofth

Eriksson

2011

Industrial Management &Amp; Data Systems

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“…Seeing trend initiators (often, though not always, small firms) and their prototype products in the flesh aids the identification of new themes, and although this observation can take place in remote locations, fabric houses or fairs for example, informal contact within the cluster is also important because of the importance of associative context to interpret the meaning. This is especially so if the cluster is co-located within the ambit of cultural influencers -members of a 'tribe' (Ciappei and Simoni 2005;Cova and Cova 2002), or part of a 'street-scene' that can provide clues as to trends. Famous examples of this symbiosis include the interplay in the 1970s between Vivienne Westwood and the punk music style as embodied in her then partner Malcolm McLaren, and the Fred Perry clothing company and the Mod or Northern Soul scene.…”

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Product development within a clustered environment: The case of apparel design firms

Rieple

Gander

2009

Creative Industries Journal

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A great deal of recent academic attention has been paid to the role of location and proximity on the organizing of production. This body of work has identified the likely benefits to firms of co-locating, but despite this, there are gaps, especially in the treatment of creative clusters and the links between location and product creation processes. In this theoretical paper we discuss how clustered apparel designer firms interact with their environment, and how this geography impacts on their designing processes and the designs that emerge. We focus especially on how co-locating with other designers and creative organisations allows them to draw upon a multiplicity of intangible resources such as street scenes, social moods and atmosphere in order to create new designs. These factors are critical in the apparel design sector, but unlike factor inputs such as talent, materials or the financial and physical resources, have hardly been considered in academic writings

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“…Geox's success is publicly acknowledged 11 and self-evident just by considering the results that in less than 20 years the company developed from a start-up to a world leader in the shoes and fashion industry. Data collection came from a mix of sources such as financial reports, documental archives, interviews, newspapers, the company's website, and academic case studies about the company and its environment (Ciappei and Simoni, 2005;Sammarra and Belussi, 2006;Camuffo et al, 2008).…”

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“…He promised great returns within a short time if they were prepared to take care of the venture. Moretti-Polegato, by avoiding an autocratic leadership style and paying particular attention to the empowerment process, developed in them a strong sense of affiliation and identification, which in turn assured a winning initial team for the company (Ciappei and Simoni, 2005).…”

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Ethical Judgment and Radical Business Changes: The Role of Entrepreneurial Perspicacity

Pellegrini

Ciappei

2013

J Bus Ethics

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This study examines the implications of practical reason for entrepreneurial activities. Our study is based on Thomas Aquinas' interpretation of such virtue, with a particular focus on the partition of practical reason in potential parts such as synesis, or common sense, and gnome, or perspicacity. Since entrepreneurial acts and actions deal with extremely uncertain situations, we argue that only this perspicacity, as the ability of correctly judging in exceptional cases, has the power to find wisdom under such blurred conditions. Perspicacity frees entrepreneurs from their cognitive schemata rendering them able to be truly entrepreneurial. Based on this vision and thanks to a semantic analysis of the meaning of the Greek word gnome, we construct an interpretative model for entrepreneurial judgment composed of three dimensions, specifically, knowledge-cognitive, external-affective, and personal-reflective. The model highlights how a 'successful' entrepreneurial judgment is also such from a holistic point of view.

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Drivers of new product success in the Italian sport shoe cluster of Montebelluna

Cited by 31 publications

References 58 publications

Coordinating new product development with supply chain management

Coordinating new product development with supply chain management

Product development within a clustered environment: The case of apparel design firms

Ethical Judgment and Radical Business Changes: The Role of Entrepreneurial Perspicacity

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