Andrea Caputo

University of Trento and University of Lincoln · Department of Economics and Management (Trento) - Department of Management (Lincoln)

Purpose – What is the discipline's current grasp of cognitive biases in negotiation processes? What lessons can be drawn from this body of literature? The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss the limited research on cognitive biases in the context of negotiations. Design/methodology/approach – This article reviews research from judgment...

Purpose: This study aims to contribute and enrich the scientific debate about the phenomenon called the Internet of Things (IoT) from a managerial perspective. Through the lenses of management and innovation literature, we investigate the main facts that characterize the IoT and developed a conceptual framework to interpret its evolution. The frame...

This study analyzes the role of the Cultural Intelligence (CQ) of expatriate managers in the processes of Conventional (CKT) and Reverse Knowledge Transfer (RKT) in in Multinational Companies (MNCs). The Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique was adopted to analyze the data from a survey of 103 senior expatriate mana...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of conflict management and the field of family business to the investigation of conflicts in family firms, with the aim of contributing to the further integration of knowledge between the two fields. Design/methodology/approach Family conflicts and work–family ba...

Today's international corporate environments demand that employees are culturally intelligent for effective engagement in cross-cultural interactions. This study examines the moderating effect of cultural intelligence (CQ) in the relationship between individual cultural orientations and the choice of a conflict management style. A sample of 403 emp...

This teaching guide introduces the Bibliometric-Systematic Literature Review (B-SLR), a methodological approach combining bibliometric analyses with systematic literature reviews to enhance review studies' coherence and theoretical contributions. The associated IJMR article presents a structured 10-step framework integrating synthesis, analysis, an...

This paper expands the existing literature on entrepreneurial intentions by employing the integrated model of external factors, personality characteristics, the theory of planned behavior, and social cognitive theory to explore the effects of risk-taking, entrepreneurial knowledge, entrepreneurial mindset, and cognitive antecedents on entrepreneuri...

This research delves into the connection between companies' adoption of sustainability strategies and the consequent effects this has on their overall performance. Based on a global panel of companies listed between 2015 and 2021, utilizing panel data analysis with fixed effects regression, the findings indicate that a genuinely implemented sustain...

The steady increase in academic production has been paralleled by a surge in the number of bibliometric and systematic literature reviews (SLRs) published. Over the years, scholars began to combine bibliometric analyses with SLRs. However, such combined approaches relied on fragmented methodological suggestions without clear guiding frameworks. Thi...

Purpose Entrepreneurs are generally considered to be committed in order to strive for highly desirable goals, such as growth or commercial success. However, commitment is a multidimensional concept and may have asymmetric relationships with positive or negative entrepreneurial outcomes. This paper aims to provide a nuanced perspective to show under...

In this article, which has an exploratory, conceptual nature, we discuss the challenges for sustainable business model (SBM) practitioners to include a broader range of stakeholders in developing value-creation logic. This is of relevance as it is not clear how the process of enrolling stakeholders to create value unfolds for SBMs. We argue that re...

The creation, success, longevity, and survival of SMEs are deeply linked with the effectiveness of internal and external decision-making processes. When entrepreneurs make decisions, they are especially influenced by their emotions, passions, values, beliefs, and cognition; at the same time with their decisions they craft the organization and suppo...

Track summary: The urgency to take action on broad societal challenges is influencing today market scenario. To understand how these challenges are addressed is relevant to investigate sustainability transitions at different levels of analysis: organizational, inter-organizational or ecosystem and societal levels. In the last decades, external stak...

Sustainability research is vast and complex, making it difficult to grasp the big picture.To help researchers understand the field better, we created a comprehensive knowl-edge map of sustainability in management literature by utilising citation-based clus-tering and text mining techniques to analyse 25,737 sustainability-related papersacross 22 ac...

CALL for Chapters: GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION PRACTICES IN TIMES OF CRISIS: QUESTIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND DIGITALIZATION (Emerald) Our new book Global Higher Education Practices in times of crisis: questions for sustainability and digitalization aims to shed some light on strategies that higher education practitioners and researchers have develope...

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the scientific debate concerning the impact of equity crowdfunding on the performance of crowdfunded firms after campaigning. To this aim, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of the campaign and the subsequent firm innovativeness. Design/methodology/appro...

The increasing globalisation, the multiculturality of workplaces and the current challenges for organisations generated the need for researchers to support them to manage the workforce. Although the relevance of employee voice for these themes, a lack of shared understanding about this topic results in fragmented literature across and within resear...

This paper examines whether CEO turnover affects company performance and the optimal time for CEO renewal during a turnaround process. Results, derived from data collected from Italian companies, highlight the necessity of introducing the new CEO before beginning an insolvency procedure. A later appointment can reduce his/her impact, probably due t...

Over the past years, the role of universities has been faced with important changes that led to substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers to their third mission, labelled ‘a contribution to society’, besides the teaching and research missions. University spin-offs (USOs or ASOs, for Academic spin-offs), emerged among the potenti...

Given the challenges faced by companies and society in general in terms of mitigating the effects of climate change and digitalisation, fostering and supporting digital and sustainable entrepreneurship represents a fundamental goal. Our research seeks to study the impact of national entrepreneurship systems (NESs) on what is known as the twin trans...

The proliferation of research on innovation-related coopetition calls for a more unified understanding of the current state of knowledge in this domain. Previous reviews on coopetition, however, fall short when it comes to putting innovation at the core of their analysis, often relegating the topic to one of the research themes/dimensions of coopet...

Although entrepreneurial intention has been regarded as one of the most important drivers of creativity, innovation, and performance in firms, a comprehensive framework that integrates the relevant influential factors has yet to be developed. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and the social cognitive career theory, this study investigates t...

Management Decision (MD) was first published on January 1st of 1967, making it the oldest and longest-running scholarly publication focused specifically on the area of management studies. The purpose of this article is to investigate the publication trends across the Journal’s life by using a bibliometric analysis. In particular, we used the Scopus...

SMEs' willingness to adopt Open Innovation largely depends on managerial cognitive configurations. The present study inquiries a scarcely explored aspect of Open Innovation, namely the human side of Open Innovation. As a result, we study the cognitive configurations leading toward willingness or unwillingness of OI adoption, specifically focusing o...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the research concerning conflict and conflict management in virtual teams (VT), to contribute to the further integration of knowledge among different streams of research and to develop an interpretative framework to stimulate future research. Design/methodology/approach A da...

With the establishment of social enterprises, the role of social entrepreneurs (SEs) becomes prominent with their exceptional competencies that contribute to the sustainable development (SD) of the environment. Sustainable competencies (SC) assist these entrepreneurs in strengthening their personalities for the present and future development by fac...

Equity crowdfunding is a form of capital market concerning the online offering of private company securities to a group of people for investment. Over the years, it has emerged as a valid financing alternative for sustainability‐oriented startups to conventional sources of funding to support their establishment and growth. This research explores th...

Bibliometric studies in management and related fields are growing exponentially due to the need to systematize and summarize the growing body of publications. To do so, scholars mostly retrieve publications and metadata from either Scopus or Web of Science. Only a few bibliometric studies merge the two databases to conduct a single integrated analy...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate blockchain’s enabling role for sustainability reporting. This study extends the scientific knowledge about the impacts related to the notarisation of mandatory sustainability reports through a publicly available blockchain. Design/methodology/approach Building on the idea journey framework, this pap...

The COVID-19 health crisis triggered changes in the workplace. This paper explores the insights from scholarly work published in the Journal of Management and Organization (JMO) and systematizes this body of knowledge to build a scientific overview that looks at how the COVID-19 health crisis and its repercussions may be managed by organizations. W...

The COVID-19 health crisis triggered changes in the workplace. This paper explores the insights from scholarly work published in the Journal of Management and Organization ( JMO ) and systematizes this body of knowledge to build a scientific overview that looks at how the COVID-19 health crisis and its repercussions may be managed by organizations....

Purpose This study aims to take a holistic perspective to investigate how open innovation supports sustainability and the contribution to the Unite Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach The study is based on an in-depth single case study of Andriani SpA, a leading Italian company in the food industry. The c...

This chapter introduces the content of the book, presenting the key insights from the contributed chapters. The book comprises 11 diverse and insightful contributions from nine different countries.

This book focuses on understanding the international behaviours of SMEs, entrepreneurial ventures, and entrepreneurs. The collection of contributions gathered in the book highlights the importance of cultures, contexts and behaviours that pertain to the international entrepreneurship arena. The respective chapters address topics such as entrepreneu...

This Special Issue is to assemble high quality papers that deepen and enhance understanding of sustainability in the context of SMEs and their management. We welcome papers that will investigate topics such as: - Factors enabling the SMEs transition toward sustainable business models (e.g. technology, innovation, policy, individual behaviours, coll...

Universities of applied sciences (UAS) have a strong mandate to carry out research, development and innovation (RDI) activities in collaboration with local stakeholders. Geographical proximity is one of the key factors for the creation and success of RDI activities because of the positive balance between costs and benefits of local knowledge transf...

Women-owned businesses represent a significant segment of the contemporary economy upon a global basis. However, women entrepreneurs still experience more obstacles than men depending on cultural context; for example, research on the Arab world concerning the interaction between women entrepreneurs and their families remains under-developed. Conseq...

Little research has been conducted regarding serial entrepreneur-ship compared to entrepreneurship research more broadly, despite research that suggests that as many as 50% of all entrepreneurs are 15 serial entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship research shows that most new ventures fail, yet serial entrepreneurs continually exit previous ventures and st...

Purpose Since the first definition of open innovation (OI), the indivisible relationship between this concept and entrepreneurship was undeniable. However, the exact mechanisms by which an entrepreneurial approach may benefit OI processes and vice versa are not yet fully understood. The study aims to offer an accurate map of the knowledge evolution...

Since the first definition of Open Innovation the indivisible relationship between open innovation and entrepreneurship has drawn a lot of research attention, however, the exact mechanisms by which openness benefits entrepreneurs and vice versa are not yet fully understood. Based on this consideration, this study aims to offer an overview of the ev...

This article is concerned with developing further understanding of the context of entrepreneurship in two cities in the U.K. – Kingston Upon Hull (Hull) and Liverpool. Through the utilisation of Bourdieu’s theory of practice, and the Bourdieusian view of the field, it was found that there are active fields of entrepreneurship in both Hull and Liver...

Universities of applied sciences (UAS) have a strong mandate to carry out research, development and innovation (RDI) activities in collaboration with local stakeholders. Geographical proximity is one of the key factors for the creation and success of RDI activities because of the positive balance between costs and benefits of local knowledge transf...

Purpose: The following analysis provides a complete framework for understanding the correlation between decision-making logics, with a particular focus on causation and effectuation, and how entrepreneurs of SMEs in northern Italy reacted to crisis and uncertainty led by Covid-19 lockdown. The survey-based obtained model considers the ability of fi...

Purpose The field of scientific research on small and medium-sized family businesses has been growing exponentially and the aim of this paper is to systematize the body of knowledge to develop an agenda for the future. Design/methodology/approach Adopting comparative bibliometric analyses on 155 articles (from 1989 until 2018) the authors provide...

Purpose: Eco-museums safeguard the cultural authenticity and the historical identity of the place in which they operate. Conventional organizational models and management practices are generally employed to achieve this institutional aim. Conversely, innovative solutions – such as digitization – are overlooked. Adopting a service quality management...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the evolutionary pathways adopted by a digital platform to favor the development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem inspired by circular economy behaviors, becoming an enabler in the development of a coevolutionary relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystems and circular economy. Design/methodology/approach...

Cities struggle to enhance their sustainability by fostering their smartness, i.e. their ability to use advanced technologies and resources in an intelligent and integrated way to achieve a socially and environmentally viable economic growth. The transition towards urban ecosystems has been proposed as a practical solution to merge smartness and su...

Starting in 2015, 169 states launched a series of initiatives aimed at pursuing achievement of the 2030 Agenda. In particular, one of the main sector interested by 2030 Agenda is represented by the Tourism sector. The centrality of Tourism enterprises is related to the considerable impacts on the landscapes in which they operate. On the point, acad...

Integrative and distributive negotiation strategies are a key paradigm of practice, teaching, and research. Are these US-formulated negotiation prototypes valid in the rest of the world? Adopting a cross-cultural view, we analyze a sample of 214 foreigners who detailed the negotiation behavior they faced in Italy (134) and in the United States (80)...

The current competitive scenario is fast-moving toward an integration of sophisticated technological innovations, i.e. smart solutions for hospitality, in particular the accommodation industry. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are able to connect and let communicate different devices to craft a personalized customer experience. Given the unden...

Research on family small and medium-sized firms (family SMEs) has been growing exponentially. Adopting comparative bibliometric analyses on 155 articles (from 1989 until 2018) we provide a systematic assessment of the scientific research about small family firms, unveiling the structure and evolution of the field. Co-citation analysis, bibliographi...

Following the operational paradigms proposed by Industry 4.0, the last years have been characterized by the rapid growth of technology-based firms increasingly adopting sustainable business models. In particular, an increasing number of Fintech enterprises have started to launch new services in order to avoid the organizational barriers that impact...

Scientific research on digitalization and its impact on business models has been growing exponentially in recent years. This has been particularly evident from 2010 onwards, following a landmark special issue published in Long Range Planning. This article offers an overview of the development of academic literature published between 2010 and 2019 w...

Business is dynamic and rapidly changing. Global markets were previously the playing field of multinational corporations (MNCs), while small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were local; however, the removal of imposed barriers, and recent technological advances in manufacturing, transportation and communications have indorsed SMEs and international en...

Purpose This paper aims to extend the knowledge of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) to synthesize what 20 years of accounting and business literature on XBRL suggests about the effective improvement from its implementation in financial reporting. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of 1...

The comprehension of the businesses' impact to sustainable development requires consideration of the different factors that affect firms' behavior, such as corporate governance, non-financial regulation, and the external environment. The contribution of business and management scholars to the discussion surrounding the Sustainable Development Goals...

Sport entrepreneurship is progressively emerging as an extremely significant stream of research. Accordingly, scholars are progressively assessing how sportspeople tend to have higher entrepreneurial orientation and intentions than the average. In a similar fashion, scholars have also observed how sport-related entrepreneurial ventures can have a p...

Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Unveiling the Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Entrepreneurship provides a range of scholarly explorations of how decisions permeate the success of entrepreneurial ventures throughout their life cycle. This bridges the gaps in current research on entrepreneurship and innovative behaviours with decision making and negoti...

The digital era is radically changing our societies and how firms do business. Innovating the business model has become a fundamental capability to survive competition, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates the digital-era role of boundary management capabilities in the processes of Business Model Innov...

This book focuses on how to promote innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset within organizations in the context of structural changes. It highlights the importance of internal marketing of innovation and ideas among employees, of creating collaborative spaces, and of company leaders promoting collaboration. The key aspect in all contributions gat...

This is an introduction chapter that explains the scope and aims of this book. This chapter describes the role of entrepreneurial mindset for organizations, human capital, strategic leadership, internal marketing, innovation and intrapreneurship. It happens that sometimes changes in environment may require reorganization of the whole company. In or...

Deadline for full articles: 15 October 2020 For informal enquiries related to the special issue, proposed topics and potential fit with the special issue objectives, please send a voluntary abstract (250 words) by 30 March 2020 to the guest editors.

The pressures associated with the speed of competition, including the digitalization of workspaces, are increasing the need for modern organizations to drive employee satisfaction and engagement. Integrating gamification into the workplace has been identified as a possible strategy to promote employee participation, engagement, and loyalty. Gamific...

Purpose-This research unpacks the micro-mechanisms that exist between an organisation's ability to conduct Big Data Analytics (BDA) and its achievement of strategic flexibility. Knowledge management capabilities and organisational ambidexterity have long been considered factors influencing the aforementioned relationship. In order to assess this, t...

Based on a 20-year dataset collected from the Web of Science database, this study aims to present a comprehensive knowledge map of the intellectual structure of the field of study of sustainability and financial performances in SMEs. A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review method was employed by analyzing articles published between...

Understanding the international behaviours of SMEs, entrepreneurial ventures, and entrepreneurs has long been of interest by management scholars. Several studies, tend to focalise on firm-level characteristics to unveil the strategic pathways of internationalisation of SMEs (Perks, & Hughes, 2008; Dana et al., 2009; Caputo et al., 2016; Dabic et al...

This chapter presents a literature review about entrepreneurial ecosystems and their relationship with entrepreneurship and innovation. Reviewed studies were aggregated into clusters and interpreted through the Neck et al. (J Small Bus Manag 42(2):190–208, 2004) framework, providing a systematised summary of the surveyed literature.

This chapter intends to stimulate a serious debate on the topic of conflict in family businesses and the theory of negotiation as a tool to resolve these conflicts. The methodology is based on the survey of the main literature on these topics. Although both literatures on conflict management and family business are highly developed, scholars and re...

This chapter introduces the content of the book, presenting the key insights from the contributed chapters.

In recent years there has been a growing body of research on how entrepreneurial activities can help the economic development of rural areas by decreasing poverty, creating employment opportunities and income and improving the overall quality of life for the people of that area. However, there is a paucity of research on rural entrepreneurship in d...

This paper investigates the relationship between sustainability and financial performances in SMEs. The bibliometric and systematic literature review results reveal the existence of three themes of research: strategic aspects of sustainability in SMEs (cluster 1); CSR in the context of SMEs (cluster 2); and, green management and environmental issue...

Working environments become increasingly culturally diverse and managers, employees and people at large are often required to engage in cross-cultural negotiations. In this regard, it becomes important for negotiators to develop the ability to recognize cultural differences and adapt their negotiation styles to the cultural contingencies they face....

Currently, Italy provides mediation only in civil and commercial matters. Such legislation regulates the civil and commercial mediation in all its forms and aspects, appointing a professional mediator with a suitable background to fulfill these functions; similarly, specific areas of intervention are expressively reserved for the use of a mediator....

For centuries, stemming from the work of philosophers such as Plato, emotions have been considered as thoughtless and potentially destructive uncontrolled impulses. In contrast, the cognitive function of the brain was viewed as imposing reason and rationality which controlled emotions by suppressing or disregarding them, and by overwhelming dangero...

This chapter continues the analysis of the literature on negotiation set out in the first chapter. What is the effect of a third-party entry in a negotiation initially configured as bilateral-distributive? Can the entry of third parties bring multilateral negotiation from distributive to integrative? In which way? To answer these questions, it is n...

To contextualize the Fiat–Chrysler case study, it is important to analyze the automotive industry through the lenses of cooperation between companies. The chapter develops starting from the description of the automotive sector and continues through the analysis of structural problems that make it fragile in times of economic crisis, identifying the...

This chapter provides a theoretical argumentation for the importance of negotiation as a strategic capability of a company in the process of achieving and sustaining a successful competitive advantage. The literature on negotiation and strategy is reviewed; also an interpretive framework, titled the strategy triangle, is presented to explain the ch...

The Latin word negotium is the negation of otium and originally meant the nonexistence of leisure. Since ancient times, the term brought with it the recognition of an activity, and more properly of a work activity. There are many theories that have been studying the phenomenon of negotiations, and this chapter aims to provide an appropriate summary...

This chapter intends to take up the theory proposed in the previous chapters through the analysis of a real business case: the agreement between Fiat and Chrysler in 2009. The chapter is structured in three parts. Initially, we will describe the working methodologies, and through a review of the main methods of study in the field of negotiations, w...

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Entrepreneurship is always evolving, and while some view entrepreneurship as something one is born to do, entrepreneurs should continue their education to improve themselves professionally. Entrepreneurship does not end with the creation of a start-up or in pursuing an already consolidated economic reality; it manifests itself in everyday life. Res...