Commercial Success and Creativity: A Resource Dependence View

This chapter reviews the history of green entrepreneurship, arguing that green entrepreneurship was shaped by four different temporal contexts between the mid-nineteenth century and the present day. Although there were significant achievements over the entire period, it was only in the most recent era that green business achieved legitimacy and scale. Green entrepreneurs often had religious and ideological motivations, but they were shaped by their institutional and temporal context. They created new markets and categories through selling their ideas and products, and by imagining the meaning of sustainability. They faced hard challenges, which encouraged clustering which provided proximity advantages and higher trust levels. Combining profits and sustainability has always been difficult, and the spread of corporate environmentalism in recent decades has not helped. Although commercial success often eluded pioneers, by a willingness to think outside of traditional boxes, they have opened up new ways of thinking about sustainability.

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Budgetary Authority and Coalition Management

10.1093/oso/9780198817208.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Chaisty ◽

Nic Cheeseman ◽

Timothy J. Power

Keyword(s):

Resource Dependence ◽

Economic Resources ◽

System Level ◽

Energy Prices ◽

Economic Crises ◽

Government Transparency ◽

Discretionary Spending ◽

The Cost ◽

Coalition Size

This chapter considers how presidents use their budget powers and the allocation of targeted discretionary spending to manage their coalitions. It considers the costs of budget tool deployment (in terms of time, controversy, and economic resources), and the factors that affect these costs: system-level factors (government transparency, federalism, personal-vote elections), coalition-level factors (coalition size, fragmentation, and heterogeneity), and conjunctural factors (economic crises and energy prices). It explores these factors with cases of budget tool deployment in Ukraine, Ecuador, and Russia. The Ecuadorean and Russian cases illustrate the divergent effects of resource dependence on the cost of budget tool dependence. Finally, it uses data from MP surveys to show the high value that legislators attribute to budget tools, and to illustrate how the composition of coalitions affects the costs that presidents are likely to face.

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Limiting role of resource dependence: an examination of director interlocks, board meetings and family ownership

Cross Cultural & Strategic Management ◽

10.1108/ccsm-01-2020-0006 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Vidya Sukumara Panicker ◽

Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula

Keyword(s):

Board Of Directors ◽

Resource Dependence ◽

Family Firms ◽

Emerging Market ◽

Resource Provisioning ◽

Independent Directors ◽

Family Ownership ◽

Independent Director ◽

Content Type

PurposeThis paper attempts to examine the activity and involvement of board of directors in internationalization activities of firms in emerging markets, by evaluating the resource provisioning roles of interlocks provided by board of directors, and the frequency of board meetings. We demonstrate that the effectiveness of board involvement is contingent upon the levels of family ownership in firms since family ownership could impact the firm’s ability to utilize the presence of different types of board members.Design/methodology/approachThe authors test our hypotheses on a sample of listed Indian companies, extracted from the Prowess database published by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a database of the financial performance of Indian companies. On a panel of 3,133 firm years of 605 unique Indian firms with foreign investments, over a time period of 2006–2017, the authors apply different estimation techniques.FindingsThe results demonstrate that both board meeting frequency and director interlocks are instrumental in supporting internationalization activities in emerging market firms. However, family ownership moderates the role of insider and independent interlocks on internationalization investments in different ways; the authors find that interlocks provided by independent directors support internationalization activities in family firms, whereas those provided by insider directors do not. Further, the study also finds that board meetings are less effective in internationalization of family firms.Practical implicationsThe authors conclude that family firms aiming at international diversification require to develop more connected and networked independent directors to enable internationalization in firms. While independent director interlocks enhance the international investments, it is also useful to know that board meetings are ineffective in utilizing the resources in family firms. This points to the possibility that family firms should device mechanisms to integrate family meetings with board meetings so that they can utilize the within-family processes to aid in their internationalization decisions.Originality/valueThe study contributes to resource dependence theory by understanding its limiting role in family firms. Theoretically, it helps delineate the limiting resource provision role of the insider directors vis-à-vis independent directors. The authors argue that the resource provision role of insider director interlocks does not effectively help in internationalization in comparison to independent director interlocks in family-dominated firms. Consequently, the study shows the limiting role of resource provision and utilization by family-owned firms in comparison to non-family-owned firms.

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When Differences Unite: Resource Dependence in Heterogeneous Consumption Communities

Journal of Consumer Research ◽

10.1086/666616 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 39 (5) ◽

pp. 1010-1033 ◽

Cited By ~ 160

Author(s):

Tandy Chalmers Thomas ◽

Linda L. Price ◽

Hope Jensen Schau

Keyword(s):

Resource Dependence ◽

Heterogeneous Consumption

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From roadman to royalties: Inter-representational value and the hypercapitalist impulses of grime

Crime Media Culture An International Journal ◽

10.1177/17416590211024322 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174165902110243

Author(s):

Orlando Woods

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Music Industry ◽

Music Videos ◽

Digital Recording ◽

Commercial Success ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

Ubiquitous Access ◽

Rap Artists

This paper explores how digital media can cause the representational value of rap artists to be transformed. Ubiquitous access to digital recording, production and distribution technologies grants rappers an unprecedented degree of representational autonomy, meaning they are able to integrate the street aesthetic into their lyrics and music videos, and thus create content that offers a more authentic representation of their (past) lives. Sidestepping the mainstream music industry, the digital enables these integrations and bolsters the hypercapitalist impulses of content creators. I illustrate these ideas through a case study of grime artist, Bugzy Malone, who uses his music to narrate his evolution from a life of criminality (selling drugs on the street; a ‘roadman’), to one in which his representational value is recognised by commercial brands who want to partner with him because of his street credibility (collecting ‘royalties’). Bugzy Malone’s commercial success is not predicated on a departure from his criminal past, but the deliberate foregrounding of it as a marker of authenticity. The representational autonomy provided by digital media can therefore enable artists to maximise the affective cachet of the once-criminal self.

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Recent Advancements in Enzyme-Based Lateral Flow Immunoassays

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21103358 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (10) ◽

pp. 3358

Author(s):

Donato Calabria ◽

Maria Maddalena Calabretta ◽

Martina Zangheri ◽

Elisa Marchegiani ◽

Ilaria Trozzi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Lateral Flow ◽

Qualitative Information ◽

Eye Color ◽

Commercial Success ◽

Color Changes ◽

Naked Eye ◽

Future Developments ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Critical Overview ◽

Detection Technologies

Paper-based lateral-flow immunoassays (LFIAs) have achieved considerable commercial success and their impact in diagnostics is continuously growing. LFIA results are often obtained by visualizing by the naked eye color changes in given areas, providing a qualitative information about the presence/absence of the target analyte in the sample. However, this platform has the potential to provide ultrasensitive quantitative analysis for several applications. Indeed, LFIA is based on well-established immunological techniques, which have known in the last year great advances due to the combination of highly sensitive tracers, innovative signal amplification strategies and last-generation instrumental detectors. All these available progresses can be applied also to the LFIA platform by adapting them to a portable and miniaturized format. This possibility opens countless strategies for definitively turning the LFIA technique into an ultrasensitive quantitative method. Among the different proposals for achieving this goal, the use of enzyme-based immunoassay is very well known and widespread for routine analysis and it can represent a valid approach for improving LFIA performances. Several examples have been recently reported in literature exploiting enzymes properties and features for obtaining significative advances in this field. In this review, we aim to provide a critical overview of the recent progresses in highly sensitive LFIA detection technologies, involving the exploitation of enzyme-based amplification strategies. The features and applications of the technologies, along with future developments and challenges, are also discussed.

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