Ivan De Noni

• PhD
• Senior Researcher at University of Padua

Purpose Relying on mergers and acquisition transaction-level data set and adopting a more region-specific approach with a focus on industry-region pairs, this paper aims to examine how cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) have an effect, in terms of technological spillover and collaboration, on European regional clusters. Design/methodology/approach A...

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly set up 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, which are commonly addressed as SDGs. In this blueprint, cities are seen as a hotspot for achieving those goals by 2030. In this context, cities, through smart technologies, are engaging...

Becoming a supplier of large companies is traditionally considered to be positive for small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) competitiveness. Small businesses can take several advantages by joining supply chain trade with large companies such as scale efficiency and productivity as well as technological and managerial abilities, product and process i...

Purpose We address the following research questions: (1) Is the innovation trajectory of the acquirer affected by previous acquisitions? (2) In which direction knowledge recombination from the acquisition is pushed further? (3) Is the technological acquisition more a means for knowledge exploration and radical innovation or, on the contrary, a way...

Environmental innovation is receiving increasing attention from scholars and policymakers as a key driver in the development of a greener and more competitive economy. First, the similarity of environmental issues across regions makes green technologies and solutions highly scalable by stimulating regions to support a more effective environment-rel...

In un mondo sempre più globalizzato, l’internazionalizzazione appare spesso una scelta quasi inevitabile anche per le PMI. Eppure, anni di ricerca non hanno ancora chiarito la incerta relazione tra internazionalizzazione e performance. Non sempre l’internazionalizzazione si traduce in aumento dei profitti, ma spesso nasconde delle insidie che devon...

There is growing interest on how regions diversify into new growth paths and why those differ in their capacity to do so. The European Union has recently implemented a framework program, the smart specialization strategy, meant to forge the capacity of regions to lever on their already existing specializations to diversify into new technological pa...

The regional literature of the last decades has been characterized by an extended debate on the role of regional diversification compared to specialization as a driver of innovation. In this context, the smart specialization framework has recently developed a balanced perspective by emphasizing the role of related diversification of the regional po...

Local and global coexist in any tourist destination, and the challenge of tourism sustainability is what remains in the balance between these two dimensions. Social and consumer-generated media are changing how local and global are coming together in the local system. These media’s effects are even more important in overtouristed places, where a si...

In this paper, we investigate the role of exaptation as source of smart specialization in European Regional Policy. Technological exaptation is the cooption of an existing technology to a new and unanticipated domain of application. Therefore, the novelty is not in the technology, but where this technology is applied. For this reason, exaptation mi...

Chinese entrepreneurship may represent an important growth lever for a manufacturing country like Italy. Chinese are both one of the fast growing ethnic communities in Europe and one of the most entrepreneurial. The development of ethnic enclave further contributes to support the increasing role of migrant entrepreneurship on local development. In...

In the last decades several contributes have tried to provide theoretical solutions and models for measuring the value of a place, a destination, a city. Specifically, some of them have explored the role several factors and different stakeholders play in the place branding evaluation and perception process. However, no conclusive findings are docum...

This work contributes to previous research on the relationship between specific features of a regional knowledge space and the technological progress of the region. In particular, the main element of originality of this work is to have singled out the determinants of the technological progress intensity and relevance. We acknowledge the importance...

Recent literature on technological changes has highlighted the role of knowledge recombination in innovation. Evidence suggests that the production of scientific and technological knowledge is becoming an increasingly collective phenomenon. Thus, in rapidly developing industries, it is almost inevitable to develop inter-organizational collaboration...

Public School Food Procurements (PSFPs) are recognized as drivers of food and nutrition security. In the last decade, researchers and institutions have focused on designing sustainable school food procurements that include organic food. This study examines the public food procurement system in 524 of the 1554 municipalities of Lombardy in Northern...

In rapidly changing regional economies, less innovative European regions (henceforth referred to as lagging-behind regions) must actively work to reduce the gap between them and knowledge-intensive regions. Recent literature has stressed that the lack of efficient institutional settings reduces the opportunities of local knowledge spillover and inc...

A spatial econometric model of German and Italian farmland prices is estimated to identify the determinants of farmland prices. It explicitly takes spatial dependencies among neighbouring areas into account, not only in form of spatially lagged farmland prices (spatial lag model) but also in form of spatially lagged explanatory variables (spatial D...

In recent decades, the increasing growth rate of the African cashew business has involved a large number of corporate actors such as global retailers, processors and exporters in cashew supply networks. The increasing role of agro-food supply chains enables African countries to enhance their position in global markets and to sustain local developme...

Looking at the last recession period, this contribution explores the institutional and socio-economic features affecting the resilience capacity of Italian local production systems. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the role played by diversified economy, related and unrelated variety, differentiated knowledge bases – underlying the local speci...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the rise of a Chinese fashion cluster in Lombardy. Design/methodology/approach – Three approaches and descending levels of analysis are integrated: a quantitative analysis based on demographic data to highlight the evolution of the regional distribution of the Chinese community and Chinese entrepreneurship i...

Venice is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. In Venice, as in other middle-sized heritage European cities, strong tourism pressure is trapping the city in a vicious circle that is eroding the quality of its tourism attractions. This development is related to the growing numbers of excursionists who lack the time to make info...

In recent decades, the role of farmers' associations in developing countries has been increasing due to a number of pro- jects promoted by local and international governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations. This paper analyses the effectiveness of collective action in enhancing farmers' market performances in terms of producti...

Collaboration is the cornerstone of European innovation policy, because it stimulates the recombination of knowledge across technological, social, institutional and organizational boundaries and strengthens the knowledge productivity of regions. Despite this key role, little attention has been paid to collaboration as a specific set of organization...

The Role of «Ecologies of Value» between Performance and Growth of Italian Local Production Systems: Looking at the last recession period, this contribution explores the institutional and socio-economic features affecting the resilience capacity of Italian local production systems. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the role played by diversifie...

This article attempts to isolate the structural characteristics that affect the resilience of a regional economy. It focuses on the role played by related/unrelated variety and differentiated knowledge bases as drivers for regional resilience and originally explores their interdependences. Italy is the empirical setting, and Italian local labour sy...

The presence of and proximity to water influences human settlement decisions, because water has been able to characterize the environment and affect human health since prehistoric times. Many scholars have studied the effects of environmental amenities on the real estate market; however, only a few of them have explored the effects of water. This s...

Purpose: The study investigates the combined effect of M&A partners’ technological relatedness and the acquirer’s effective utilization of the target’s knowledge on explorative and exploitative invention performance post- M&A. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the knowledge perspective of an M&A, this study measures how much of the target’s kno...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) form a strategic response to the increasing rapidity of technological change, enabling firms to exploit the potential embodied in external sources of knowledge and rapidly adapt to changing market conditions. However, the success of this strategy critically depends on acquirers’ absorptive capacity. Even if there is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined effect of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) partners' technological relatedness and the acquirer's effective utilization of the target's knowledge on explorative and exploitative invention performance post-M&A. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the knowledge perspective of an M&A,...

Several contributions look at the effect of technological M&As on the acquirer’s technological performance. The knowledge-based perspective highlights the critical role that the acquirer’s target’s knowledge absorption plays as the main driver in enhancing post-M&A technological performance. However, absorptive capacity is a rather complex construc...

The internationalisation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is an increasing phenomenon, but the effective advantages of internationalisation have been disputed yet. This study extends internationalisation research by focusing on learning perspective to investigate the relationship between the firm’s internationalisation and performance. Specif...

It has been suggested in the literature that the acquisition of external sources of knowledge may enhance the capacity of firms to combine exploration and exploitation. This study focuses on this issue by analyzing the role of technology-based M&As. More specifically, we investigate the effects of knowledge relatedness, realized absorption and mana...

This paper provides practical implications for local and global place marketing and management, focusing on the case of Milan's efforts to identify opportunities to enhance the city's perceived image in order to attract talent. By exploring different dimensions of the city's image, the authors provide an analytical technique for quantifying the com...

Purpose—To counter the proliferation of out-of-town shopping centres, a spontaneous or planned coalition loyalty programme (CLP), one involving most retailers in an urban network, may positively affect a town centre’s capacity to entice customers and may enhance its competitiveness. The purpose of this research is to assess the effectiveness of CLP...

Analisi delle dinamiche occupazionali, del comportamento finanzairio, dell'inclusione economica e sociale degli immigrati che rappresentano il 10% dell'occupazione italiana

The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of social entrepreneurship as driver of exaptation. Exaptation is defined as the redeployment of an existing body of knowledge into a new and previously unrelated domain of application and as major source of disruptive innovation and firms' dynamic capabilities. Exaptation takes place in two ph...

L’uomo è da sempre alla ricerca di luoghi accoglienti dove soddisfare i bisogni primari, crescere ed educare la prole in condizioni di pace, sostenibilità e civismo. Emigrazione ed immigrazione sono fenomeni che appartengono alla storia dell’umanità dalle sue origini che ne certifica ogni giorno il Cammino Infinito come un processo lungo e compless...

Innovation within clusters is a significant aspect in regional development. The role of social capital and absorptive capacity in leveraging both exploratory and exploitive innovation has widely been emphasized in economic geography and regional studies. Social interaction, in fact, affects the opportunity to identify and select new knowledge sourc...

The competiveness of Open Source Software (OSS) communities depends on the quantity and combination of resources and competencies attracted to and retained at each stage of the innovation process. To this purpose, given the lack of proprietary control over source code, the way mechanisms of governance combine through a coherent and emergent process...

Purpose – Innovation within clusters is a crucial aspect in regional development. In the last decades, in the literature the role of absorptive capacity, environment, trust and cooperation in leveraging both explorative and exploitive innovation has been highlighted. In this paper we assess the contributions of these factors on the basis of a compa...

Immigrant entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as a potential source of sustainable development. But even while this potential is gaining popularity, the available data are still not sufficient to establishing ad-hoc policies that would support the development of this form of entrepreneurship. This drawback of the current data is mainly due to...

There is growing attention toward the role of ethnic entrepreneurship as a potential source of social integration and economic growth. Despite this recent interest, there is in fact a long tradition of studies focusing on ethnic entrepreneurship. Furthermore, there are also a number of qualitative literature reviews that attempt to systematise the...

In this paper, we investigate the nature of the relationships between dimensions of governance in Open Source (OS) communities. A recent review highlighted this issue as critical. Furthermore, this issue has been recognized as strategic for managing the trade-off between innovation and standardization, the capacity of firms to profit from their inv...

This paper examines the relationship between operational risk management and knowledge learning process, with an emphasis on establishing the importance of statistical and mathematical approach on organizational capability to forecast, mitigate and control uncertain and vulnerable situations. Knowledge accumulation reduces critical situations unpre...

The main aim of this article is to inform managers and advisers about new knowledge management approaches in Units Relationship Management (URM), reconsidering future uncertainty and operational benefits that may be generated by refined and innovative mathematical methods applicable to management and modernization of organizations. Methods able to...

The main aim of this paper is to develop a qualitative and quantitative Benchmarking model for SMEs. The Benchmarking is a methodology base on a comparison among performances born in some international industrial groups to answer to the strong competitive dynamics on the 70s. This approach to a model of territorial benchmarking for SME is based on...

The main aim of this paper is to develop a qualitative and quantitative credit risk rating model for SMEs. The scope of this model is to assign, through a discriminant function (see Altman,1969), a synthetic judgment of the firm management ( ). First of all it must characterize variables that multiplied for a weighted coefficient allow us to determ...