Alberto Peralta

University of Alcalá (Spain) and Abu Dhabi University (UAE)

The lack of analysis of complex phenomena and results emerging from volunteer events organized by public entities leads to very limited understanding of how these collaborative events innovate public services or solutions to social problems. With this chapter, we contribute to expand this understanding by proposing a method to simulate how particip...

Since its release, the Lean Startup (LS) method has taken the business model innovation world like a storm. Subject to praise and rejection by many, this practice is now mainstream for incubators, accelerators, and innovation centers. Academics are devoting many research hours to work out LS implications. Yet we found that LS application in the fie...

Governments increasingly tend to involve or rely on various societal actors to address social challenges and develop cost-effective and high-quality public services. This paper identifies the major themes of social innovation relating to this type of collaborative governance, by carrying out a conceptual analysis of the scientific and grey literatu...

This paper aims to contribute to the scholarly debate on public service logic (PSL) by deepening the understanding of how value propositions are created and altered. The PSL literature has so far suggested that value propositions are central to the value creation process, but there is scant understanding of how value propositions are created and ad...

Public administrations, to innovate public services, seek strategies beyond market-like mechanisms and claim for clear paths such as lifecycles. This research bridges service management theory and theory of public management to further how networks for public service innovation mediate public value creation; the study, by integrating both theories...

This paper aims to contribute to the scholarly debate on the Public Service Logic (PSL) by integrating PSL with Service Design. PSL holds that public service organizations do not create value for citizens and users, organizations merely facilitate service users' value creation. This facilitation relies on the provision of service offerings, also te...

Being this a period when human activities and creations profoundly alter many geological conditions and processes, here we conceptualise how the sustainable innovation of business models acts as yet another lever for the dissemination of human misbehaviours against the planet and its ecosystems. Departing from the Institutional Theory approach to e...

Health and social services (HSS) are now, more than ever, at the center of the debate of public policy. We are interested in studying the HSS services innovations from the networked-governance strategy standpoint. With this research, we contribute by analyzing the criteria leading to the formation of HSS public service innovation networks (HSS PSIN...

Partial least squares structural equation modelling has proven very valuable to study the unexplored and complex public service innovation networks (PSINs) in the public sector, from a socio-economic stance. Web have modelled PSINs’ three structural variables—Social, Actors, and Functioning mode—using a sample of original data (n = 233). Our PSINs’...

Using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology for Innovations in the Public Sector (UTAUT-IPS) model, this study examined the influences on using a specific innovation practice on public managers. We based our analysis on an end-of-2019 sample of 227 Spanish public managers, aiming to answer the question “Are public innovation and pr...

A unique lens for studying event project management in the era of sustainability, digital transformation, smart cities and rapid development in technology. It discusses and explains how to manage events utilising the sustainable project management model adapted to the specific context of event management.

We have confirmed the production of social innovation by the public social innovation networks (PSINs), especially with certain groups or organizations, using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PSL-SEM) algorithms and routines. PLS-SEM proves to be a complete set of techniques, allowing us to model PSINs structural variables –secto...

The lack of analysis of complex phenomena and results emerging from the collaborative events organized by public entities under the co-creation paradigm has led to a very limited understanding of how these events result in new public services or solutions to social problems. With this paper, we have contributed to expand this understanding analyzin...

The main contribution of this dissertation sits at the intersection of sustainability and business model innovation, presenting the most relevant elements current and future sustainable business model innovation practices should clarify to include them in the development of new sustainable business models. In the second chapter, we conceptually and...

Our main contribution with this dissertation sits at the intersection of sustainability and business model innovation, presenting the most relevant elements current business model eco-innovation (sustainable business model innovation) practices should identify to include them in the development of new sustainable business models (sustainable busine...

With this research, we contribute to the extant literature on social innovation (SI) in the public sector comparing servitization with linear and other network practices for that purpose to conceptually identify the constructs that drive the decision of innovators to use one or another. We have, first, identified and described using the UTAUT frame...

Sustainable business model innovation debate is mostly focusing on the use of certain practices and tools to implement sustainable objectives in new firms. Our paper contributes to this debate examining the factors influencing the entrepreneur's election of the practices to develop sustainable business model innovation (SBMI). We conducted an empir...

El capítulo describe y compara los enfoques convencional (lineal) y Lean Startup (no lineal) para el desarrollo de innovación sostenible de modelos de negocio en entornos corporativos.

Eco-innovation efforts (including the environment, social and economic dimensions of innovation) concentrate on triple bottom line goals but to-date there seems to be a deficit of academic and practitioner literature on the effect of this type of innovation on new business models. There is a growing group of authors concentrating of filling up this...

Most of what we have seen to date related to eco-innovation of business models (Schaltegger, Lüdeke-Freund and Hansen, 2012; Boons and Lüdeke-Freund, 2013; Bocken et al., 2014; Morioka, Evans and de Carvalho, 2016) shows the importance of stakeholders. But we are living a renovated search for quick-and-stable-economic results. And this “search” may...

Corporate business model innovation is attracting much interest, and researchers and practitioners are certainly placing much of their efforts in explaining and executing business model innovation programs at all sorts of corporations. Some of these programs are based on theoretical models, like the conventional product development model of which t...

There is a growing number of authors concentrating on describing ways of speeding up the generation of sustainable outcomes using eco-innovation of business models in an effort to counterbalance the current search for quick-and-estable-economic results. For most of them the perspective is product-centric, as the product stays as the cornerstone of...

Privatization is not any more an ideological problem, as it was during the sixties. Today, it must give an answer, a solution, to the decline of the Welfare State of the last decades; and this answer must involve not only a solution of Social Care issues, but also the impact of this Welfare on the social and economic environments (what we call ‘ord...