Emilene Leite

The Role of NGOs in Business Networks: Partnership in Innovation

Globalisation has intensified competition and empowered consumers worldwide. In order to sustain growth, firms are under constant pressure to embark on the development of new products and/or services while addressing societal and environmental issues. In times where mobile technology is changing every industry from healthcare to banking, the locus of innovation may not be limited to the in-house creation of ideas (Chesbrough 2003). Companies are instead looking to acquire external knowledge by partnering with multiple actors who may lie outside of the traditional (customer–supplier) business network of relationships.

Cross-Sector Collaboration between Business and Non-Business Actors: The Case of an ICT-Project in Brazil : Book Chapter

The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the project management literature by introducing behavioural aspects of relationships in collaborative ICT projects. Specifically, it examines the role played by business and non-business actors in successful projects regarding urban mobility in emerging economies. To accomplish this, a case study was undertaken, based on the development of a solution for public transportation in the South of Brazil. The findings suggest that, besides technological know-how, the interplay between commitment, knowledge, and opportunity development seem to have a combined impact on project outcome. The result strengthens the idea that studies analysing project management should consider not only rational dimensions of the projects, such as cost, time, quality, and scope, but also the social dimension in terms of the relationships that partners develop during and after the project.

The Cooperation-Competition Interplay in the ICT Industry

Purpose: Building on a business network perspective, the paper addresses the following question: Why do firms move between cooperation and competition in the context of high-tech industry? Hence, t ...

A business network view on value creation and value capturing in public-private cooperation

Intersecting the boundaries between public and private economic activity, this study contributes to the research on public-private cooperation. It comprehends how these hybrids organizational arrangements influence value creation and capturing mechanisms. A case study based on the development of a public transportation solution in Brazil is undertaken. Using a business network approach, we propose a theoretical framework of value creation and capturing through public-private cooperation and argue that the value is constructed through the complementarity of resources and the cohesiveness of motives of the involved actors. Our findings suggest that the success of the cooperation goes beyond the benefits from simply generating revenues, thereby expanding the value capturing concept.