Synopses & Reviews
Provides an updated view of knowledge management strategies of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) by focusing on how those firms manage innovation in their value chains and at the territorial level. Offers an original analysis of key processes of KIBS, specializing in design, professional firms and information technology.
Synopsis
Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance explores the interrelation of text, body and technology in performance. It provides an edited collection which reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance specifically focussing on the exciting exchange between writerly texts, body and technology. It also adds a further dimension to Palgrave Macmillan's series on technological art and performance practices which includes Broadhurst's and Machon's Performance and Technology and Broadhurst's Digital Practices. This book focuses on and analyses textual practices that are central to contemporary performance. Importantly, it offers an interrogation of diverse 'textualities', that is, performance writing indebted to sensual 'writings of the body' in all manner of ways. The collection looks to new approaches offered by ongoing textual practices in physical, visual and virtual performances that incorporate new and existing technologies.
About the Author
ELEONORA DI MARIA Associate Professor of Business Management at the University of Padova, Italy. Her research focuses on firm innovation, knowledge-intensive business services, internationalization and business competitiveness. She has published books and articles in journals such as Research Policy, European Planning Studies and European Management Journal.
ROBERTO GRANDINETTI is Professor of Management at the University of Padova, Italy. His main areas of research are the evolutionary paths of industrial districts, inter?rm relationships, and relationship marketing. He has published books and articles in journals such as Human Systems Management and Industrial Marketing Management.
BARBARA DI BERNARDO is Professor of Business Management at the University of Padova, Italy. Her research focuses on the evolution of marketing and creative processes, service economy and the competitiveness of ?rms in the network economy. She has published national and international books and articles.
Table of Contents
List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsContributorsExploring Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: An Introduction; E. Di Maria, R. Grandinetti and B.Di BernardoKIBS And Knowledge Dynamics In Client-Supplier Interaction; I. MilesKnowledge Angels, Creative Behaviors and Emerging Innovation Modes: Observations from Alsace, Baden-Württemberg and Catalonia; E. Muller, A. Zenker and J.Carlos RamosKnowledge Dynamics and Knowledge Commodification of KIBS in Time and Space; S. StrambachHow Knowledge-Intensive Business Services Upgrade their Customers: Evidence from Russia; M. E. DoroshenkoKIBS Roles in KIBS Industries; A. AlvisiCreativity Versus Standardization In Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: A Real Trade-Off?; M. Bettiol, E. Di Maria, R. GrandinettiInnovation and Co-Production In Computer Services: The Case of Complex Software Solutions In The Fashion and Retail Industry In Italy; M. PaiolaKnowledge Dynamics In Third-Party Logistics: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration Through Service Architectures; A. Cabigiosu, D. Campagnolo, A. Furlan and G.CostaThe Role of Entrepreneurs' Human and Social Capital In Knowledge-Intensive Business Services; M. Gianecchini and P. GubittaIs There A Connection Between Geographic Clustering And KIBS Innovation?; R. Shearmur and D. DoloreuxUrban Density and Vertical Disintegration: The Case of Service Firms In Milan; R. Antonietti and G.CainelliCompetitive Strategies In Knowledge-Intensive Business ServicesEvidence From Lombardy; N.Corrocher, L. Cusmano and A.MorrisonAppendixBibliographyIndex