Papers by Rodrigo Rabetino
Learning in Strategic Alliances
Academy of Management Proceedings
S4Fleet – Service Solutions for Fleet Management: FINAL REPORT 6/2017
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Energy: Identifying the Key Dimensions from Two Different Bibliometric Analyzes
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been considered as one of the primary mechanisms to mobil... more Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been considered as one of the primary mechanisms to mobilize social capital towards infrastructure and services in the energy sector on a global scale. However, the lack of understanding of PPPs in the energy sector has been highlighted as a limiting factor for the full and successful implementation of PPP projects. Accordingly, this research seeks to identify the main dimensions of PPPs in the energy sector. A systematic search was conducted for that purpose. Furthermore, the present study included the application of two different bibliometric packages as analytics tools: VOSviewer and Leximancer. Both different computational approaches were used to identify key dimensions and compare them with results of manual content analysis. The five key dimensions emerged as 1) PPP projects, 2) renewable technologies and electricity in the energy sector, 3) hybrid energy governance, 4) risk and 5) sectoral interlinkages. The development of innovative ap...
Purpose: The present paper was set out to study how a solution provider manages organisational pr... more Purpose: The present paper was set out to study how a solution provider manages organisational processes and routines to support product-service system (PSS) development. Design/Methodology/Approach: This single-case study investigates in-depth one large international solution provider to understand the detailed microprocesses and routines shaping the microfoundations of product-service system development. Findings: The study suggests that technology companies should consider creating a flexible structure to unleash many types of innovations instead of establishing tailored models to foster different innovation types and avoid falling into the exploitation trap of using innovation to only support the existing business without aiming for new explorative openings. Originality/Value: The present study opens up the black-box of new product-service innovation (PSI)
The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization, 2021
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.
International Journal of Production Economics, 2020
The study analyzes the coping practices that emerge when a manufacturer of standardized products ... more The study analyzes the coping practices that emerge when a manufacturer of standardized products and add-on services expands to provide customized solutions. Based on a comparative case study methodology conducted across four case companies, and an analysis of extensive documentary data, the study challenges the dichotomous 'either-or thinking' in servitization research and highlights 'both-and thinking' by identifying both paradoxes and coping practices. The study extends the literature by identifying four paradoxes in servitization: 1) effectiveness in the customization of solutions vs. efficiency in product manufacturing, 2) building a customer orientation vs. maintaining an engineering mindset, 3) organizing product and service integration vs. separated services and product organizations, and 4) exploratory innovation in solutions vs. exploitative innovation in product manufacturing. Moreover, the study identifies nine practices that manufacturing companies apply when coping with the paradoxical challenges that emerge during servitization. The findings may help manufacturing companies understand, accept, and address paradoxical challenges and balance tensions, as not all tensions can be resolved. The identification of these paradoxes allows us to understand the difficulties that manufacturing companies face during the servitization process and may help explain the servitization-deservitization trend among some manufacturing companies that some recent studies have identified.
Paradoxes in servitization
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
This chapter focuses on the paradoxical tensions companies face when servitizing their business m... more This chapter focuses on the paradoxical tensions companies face when servitizing their business model. We utilize the paradox theory, and reconstruct the Smith and Lewis (2011) model for servitization context, to enable companies to analyze and understand the paradoxical tensions they encounter when implementing the service transition. We outline the paradox theory, and define a variety of organizational paradoxes caused by the tension generated when implementing servitization while trying to maintain efficiency of product manufacturing (paradox of performing).
Practices and Tools for Servitization, 2018
Costos ocultos e ineficiencias de la cadena de ganados y carnes en Argentina. Estimación y metodología
The Pursuit of the Efficient Scale Size: Implications for Firm Growth
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
ABSTRACT The paper examines the longitudinal impact that returns to scale and organisational vari... more ABSTRACT The paper examines the longitudinal impact that returns to scale and organisational variables have upon firm sales' growth. To attain this, and using a Spanish data set for the period 1995-2001, we introduce a non-parametric technique (Data Envelopment Analysis) to obtain qualitative information about the returns to scale exhibited by firms. In a second step, we carry out a regression analysis using the GMM technique in order to address endogeneity and firm specific effects. The main contribution of the paper indicates that returns to scale and their dynamics over time are important determinants of firm growth. Our findings reveal that firms that reached the technological interval characterised by constant returns to scale show higher growth rates, where technological change and efficiency improvements are important determinants of this process. In addition, empirical findings indicate that ownership concentration improves monitoring tasks within the firm leading to higher growth rates. However, we also find that ownership concentration may create costs that outweigh its benefits, and this is especially relevant when the main shareholder also serves as chairman.
This edited book intends to provide knowledge on tools and practices of servitization to facilita... more This edited book intends to provide knowledge on tools and practices of servitization to facilitate the formulation and implementation of servitization-based strategies, service infusion and manufacturing service transition globally. Including 22 practically relevant contributions, this book aims to help scholars and practitioners seeking to facilitate servitization in companies through original perspectives and advanced thinking in related issues such as business models, strategic change, practices, processes, routines, value creation and appropriation. Employing practice theory as a useful frame, the contributions span theoretical approaches such as product-service systems, service science, services-dominant logic and cocreation, resource-based views, industrial organization and institutional theory. The book presents tools and frameworks to enable and support servitization and engender understanding of servitization-as-practice.
International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Aug 13, 2021
Scopus, 2018
Drawing on the case of a global servitizing company in the ship power industry, we use a Porteria... more Drawing on the case of a global servitizing company in the ship power industry, we use a Porterian toolkit for analyzing the implications of industry power and its consequences on firm vertical (re)positioning within the value system. Whereas repositioning has been seen as a way of moving closer to customers and obtaining new competencies, strategic moves aimed at increasing companies’ sphere of influence were neglected. This chapter illustrates how the power approach to repositioning, through different alternative mechanisms, complements the widespread capability view and contributes to value system analysis in servitization.
Unveiling the shades of partnerships for the energy transition and sustainable development: Connecting public–private partnerships and emerging hybrid schemes
Sustainable Development
Paradoxes in Servitization
Practices and Tools for Servitization
Energies
Energy ecosystems are under a significant transition. Local flexibility marketplaces (LFM) and pl... more Energy ecosystems are under a significant transition. Local flexibility marketplaces (LFM) and platforms are argued to have significant potential in contributing to such a transition. The purpose of this study was to answer the following research question: how do market conditions and stakeholders shape emerging LFM platform governance choices? We approached this objective with an exploratory single-case study by conducting ten semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in the Finnish energy ecosystem. The results of the content and pattern analyses revealed the key challenges to LFM implementation such as the current regulatory treatment of flexibility, high costs of gadget installations, and ensuring sufficient liquidity in the market. In addition, we also demonstrated that despite such barriers, the Finnish ecosystem is largely pragmatic about LFMs’ in its midst. All in all, we contributed to the non-technological streams of LFM literature by developing an exhaustive framew...
Structuring Business Intelligence (BI)-related research
Academy of Management Proceedings
The Business intelligence (BI) literature has grown rapidly during the last three decades. Yet th... more The Business intelligence (BI) literature has grown rapidly during the last three decades. Yet the knowledge about its theoretical underpinnings and its links to strategy research remain elusive. T...
Re-conceptualizing Business Intelligence (BI) Research and Placing it within the Strategy Realm
This study strives to synthesize and integrate the business intelligence (BI) research areas arou... more This study strives to synthesize and integrate the business intelligence (BI) research areas around four strategic clusters. The article provides a new re- conceptualization of BI across four strategic clusters: BI as a system, BI as a planned process, BI as a product, BI as a decisional paradigm. The present paper connects BI literature with research in strategic management, by plotting the existing research strands 1) environmental scanning, 2) competitive intelligence, 3) executive information systems, 4) business intelligence, against strategic dimensions of a) orientation (External vs. Internal) and b) focus (Content vs. Process). This conceptual article contributes to the literature by 1) connecting BI literature to strategic management, by plotting the existing research on environmental scanning, competitive intelligence, executive information systems, and business intelligence, against strategic dimensions of strategic orientation and strategic focus, 2) providing suggestion...
Journal of Service Management
PurposeThe present study intends to foster understanding of how a traditional manufacturer can ut... more PurposeThe present study intends to foster understanding of how a traditional manufacturer can utilize the “simple rules” approach of managerial heuristics to facilitate its smart solution development (SSD) process.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses an in-depth single case research strategy and 25 senior manager interviews to understand the application of simple rules in smart solution development.FindingsThe findings reveal process, boundary, preference, schedule, and stop rules as the dominant managerial heuristics in the case and identify how the manufacturer applies these rules during the innovation process phases of ideation, incubation, transformation, and industrialization for attaining project outcomes.Research limitations/implicationsThe study contributes to the new service development (NSD) literature by shedding light on simple rules and how managers may apply them to facilitate SSD. The main limitations stem from applying the qualitative case study approach and th...
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Papers by Rodrigo Rabetino