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Innovation management in the sharing economy: contributions to its understanding, adoption, and implementation
| Resumo: | Over the last decade, the Sharing Economy (SE) has attracted researchers from various fields, including those focusing on innovation. However, their studies do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the context, processes, actors, and key innovation resources in the sector. Therefore, this study, composed of four essays, focuses on innovation management practices in SE organizations. The first essay analyzes the state of the literature on innovation in SE. The findings reveal the predominance of studies on the impact of SE business models in cities and urban areas and their contributions to sustainability. In the second essay, adopting a netnographic approach, we analyzed the innovation practices of a virtual innovation community that developed nine non-profit initiatives based on SE business models. The results show that this community adopted open, rapid and evasive innovation processes and a decentralized approach. In the third essay, through semi- structured interviews, we analyzed how SE companies innovate. The results showed that these companies lack formalized innovation management systems and that innovation activities are oriented towards solving immediate customer problems. In the fourth essay, a simulated discrete choice experiment was performed to simultaneously determine the probability of association of predictors with a type of innovation, and to predict the type of innovation of publications shared on online social networks by users of SE companies. The final predictive model included five significant predictors. In conclusion, the results of this dissertation highlight that SE organizations must adopt contextual, dynamic, relational, and structured innovation management approaches that contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of their innovation processes and that, consequently, increase their innovation performance and contribute to its sustainability. |
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| Autores principais: | Silva, Fernando Manuel Parreirinha Belezas Aires da |
| Assunto: | Sharing economy Innovation management Innovation types Innovation systems Fast-open innovation |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso embargado |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Resumo: | Over the last decade, the Sharing Economy (SE) has attracted researchers from various fields, including those focusing on innovation. However, their studies do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the context, processes, actors, and key innovation resources in the sector. Therefore, this study, composed of four essays, focuses on innovation management practices in SE organizations. The first essay analyzes the state of the literature on innovation in SE. The findings reveal the predominance of studies on the impact of SE business models in cities and urban areas and their contributions to sustainability. In the second essay, adopting a netnographic approach, we analyzed the innovation practices of a virtual innovation community that developed nine non-profit initiatives based on SE business models. The results show that this community adopted open, rapid and evasive innovation processes and a decentralized approach. In the third essay, through semi- structured interviews, we analyzed how SE companies innovate. The results showed that these companies lack formalized innovation management systems and that innovation activities are oriented towards solving immediate customer problems. In the fourth essay, a simulated discrete choice experiment was performed to simultaneously determine the probability of association of predictors with a type of innovation, and to predict the type of innovation of publications shared on online social networks by users of SE companies. The final predictive model included five significant predictors. In conclusion, the results of this dissertation highlight that SE organizations must adopt contextual, dynamic, relational, and structured innovation management approaches that contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of their innovation processes and that, consequently, increase their innovation performance and contribute to its sustainability. |
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