
Lara AgostiniUniversity of Padua | UNIPD · Department of Management and Engineering
Lara Agostini
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January 2014 - August 2016
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This article aims to identify the configurations of micro-governance functions (aligning, mobilizing, integrating, organizing, arbitrating, monitoring) that foster an internal collaborative environment in collaborative networks. We collected data from 36 networks for water protection in Brazil and performed a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)....
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Strategic flexibility (SF) has become increasingly important for firms because of the fast changes in the external environment. In line with the practical importance of SF, an emerging research field has developed around it that has attempted to understand the nature of SF and the key relationships. The aim of this study is to unveil the se...
Recent major health shocks, such as the 2014–16 Ebola, the Zika outbreak, and, last but not least, the COVID-19 pandemic, have strongly contributed to drawing attention to the issue of resilience in the healthcare domain. Nevertheless, the scientific literature appears fragmented, creating difficulties in developing incremental research in this rel...
This paper examines the literature on paradoxes and tensions in interorganizational relationships (IORs) and identifies how such tensions are managed in interorganizational settings. In a systematic literature review, we analyzed 95 papers published between 1997 and 2021 on the subject of paradoxes in IORs. The sample showed a variety of paradoxes...
Disruptive changes, such as the ones caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, oblige firms to develop the ability to be resilient in this unstable environment if they want to stay competitive. In this context, the aim of this article is to unveil how intellectual capital (IC) may foster resilience in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To serve thi...
Startups contribute significantly to the economic development of a country. Despite their importance and promising future, they are extremely fragile, mainly for their lack of tangible and intangible resources. Since this can be obtained through an incubation process, business incubators (BIs) could have a significant impact on the survival rate of...
Industry 4.0 is dramatically affecting firms' strategies. In particular, technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) are offering firms the possibility to manage product functions, remotely and globally, enabling the design of innovative business models. The aim of the article is to investigate how incumbent small and medium enterprises can mana...
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The purpose of this article is twofold; to verify the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their patent management core processes and to test the impact of the interplay between two patent management supporting dimensions, namely patent strategy and organization for patenting, on the level of soph...
Academics and practitioners have since decades been interested in the organizational and managerial aspects of patent management. However, little attention has been devoted to validating and testing a measurement scale of patent management. With this background, the current article aims to empirically assess the factor structure of a patent managem...
The COVID-19 outbreak has compelled many organizations to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. In this context, the aim of this article is to unveil how a small R&D organization has been able to rapidly take advantage of the opportunities offered by the COVID-19 outbreak and to understand the factors that have enabled organizational speed. Resu...
The effectiveness of a closed-loop supply chain strategy for a tenable circular economy heavily depends on consumers' willingness to purchase such products. However, research has documented that consumers are skeptical about these products, thus making of interest the understanding of consumers' attitude and purchase intention. The literature provi...
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Following an increasing interest in the area that merges digital/I4.0 technologies and business models (BMs), which led to a proliferation of articles in this domain, the purpose of this article is to systematize this body of literature by means of a structured literature review.
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After a careful selection of art...
This paper introduces the special section, which aims to shed new light on the dynamics of knowledge generation and transfer with respect to human and geographical dimensions. We first provide a review of the state of the art in the two research areas, using bibliometric techniques, with the aim of tracing the evolution of the literature. We procee...
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Based on the growing interest devoted to knowledge management (KM) in inter-organizational contexts, the purpose of this paper is to systematize existing literature and understand how it developed over time, thus tracing its roots and evolution to unveil gaps and suggest new promising areas for future research.
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As various scholars have pointed out, the exponential growth in digital technologies has resulted in significant improvements to many business processes, and has also played a significant role in the field of innovation. The purpose of this paper is to organise the contributions of this special issue according to a framework that considers...
This article aims to propose measurement scales for patent management seen as a macro-process made up of different sub-processes, where activities are carried out, having the firm as our unit of analysis. To this purpose, we followed a recommended six-step methodological approach for new scale development and validation widely recognized in the lit...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the financial resources invested in advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) and social capital (SC), in terms of the set of internal and external relationships a firm holds, have a positive effect on the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies. Furthermore, it tests whether the org...
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To hinder the high failure rate of strategic networks, recently scholars have concentrated on behavioral aspects such as trust, conflict management, resolution and commitment as fundamental antecedents of strategic network performance. Within this context, this paper focuses on the antecedents of affective commitment, based on the rationale...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a reconceptualization of existing constructs within the inter-organizational relationship (IOR) domain to face two main issues: the proliferation of constructs emerged because of a fast-growing body of literature, and the interchangeable and ambiguous use of constructs.
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Currently, the expectancy that surrounds the Fourth Industrial Revolution, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0 (I4.0), is huge. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to unveil whether and how organizational and managerial practices are associated to different levels of adoption of I4.0 technologies.
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The importance of government policies in the formation and development of strategic networks has been widely recognized. Many countries have designed specific government policies with the aim to support network creation. However, the influence of these different government policies on the development process of strategic networks has never...
The theme of inter-organizational relationships involving SMEs (SME IORs) has generated a relevant body of knowledge that has not been systematized yet. This article carries out a systematic literature review on SME IORs using bibliometric techniques, aiming to provide an overview of the main subfields of research and to identify promising paths fo...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence that different components of relational capital (marketing capability, open innovation with business and scientific partners, technological reputation, brand) have on customer performance (CP). Moreover, the moderating effect of absorptive capacity on such relationships is tested....
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Considering that SMEs are widely recognized as important innovators and, in the past years, have registered increasing levels of patenting, the purpose of this paper is to unveil the impact of both internal and external knowledge sourcing on SME patenting performance and test the moderating role of formal plan for innovation and absorptive...
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In today’s knowledge economy the ability to innovate and develop new products is a key factor to sustain firm performance. Within this context, analysing the role of different components of intellectual capital (IC) becomes of foremost importance, as well as an under-investigated issue for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The pur...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between the strength of intellectual capital (IC) and small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation performance.
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Primary data of 150 SMEs belonging to manufacturing medium-high tech industries were collected through a survey. The methodology con...
Within the B2B context, this paper examines whether technological reputation mediates the relationship between employee skills for innovation, internal social capital (i.e. knowledge sharing among employees) and brand orientation (i.e., the extent to which the brand has a dominant role throughout the firm), and customer performance (i.e., customer...
We are please to invite you to submit a paper to the R&D Management Conference 2016
special session on "Technology Intelligence for Open SMEs", chaired by Raffaella
Manzini with Lara Agostini, Davide Aloini, Valentina Lazzarotti, Anna Nosella, Luisa
Pellegrini (session L27).
The R&D Management Conference will take place at University of Cambridge,...
This study investigates four key factors of the internal organisational context that moderate the relationship between connecting with users and radical innovation performance: performance management, autonomy, internal networking and organisation and culture to support innovation. These components define a firm's organisational context. A sample o...
Within the context of ambidexterity, this paper focuses on the tension between radical and incremental innovation and its main aim is to investigate whether an ambidextrous organization for innovation can be conceptualized in a more integrated way as a second-order construct reflected by both contextual and structural approaches. Structural equatio...
The aim of this paper is to investigate how the development process of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) marketing networks is carried out, in terms of organizational and managerial activities, in successful networks compared to unsuccessful ones. In other words, this study investigates which activities are carried out in successful (compared...
The theme of SME marketing networks acquires high relevance because of their positive influence over internationalization and market competitiveness. Within this stream of research, how partners learn to implement and manage collaborations has received little attention. This article aims to bridge this gap, first, by analysing the mechanisms partne...
Over recent decades, the area of marketing interorganizational relationships (IORs) has received increasing attention from both academics and practitioners, even if a comprehensive portrayal of past research is still lacking. Hence, the aim of the present paper is to review the literature on marketing IORs in order to develop a framework meant to o...
The objective of this paper was to investigate the association between branding, captured by the combined use of the number of corporate and product trademarks and marketing expenses, and small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sales performance in the fashion industry. The results of the panel regression model indicate that corporate trademarks an...
This article extends previous theory on the management of strategic multipartner SME networks by investigating how different actors manage the development process of such networks and how different management approaches in terms of actors' roles and their involvement affect network performance. Results emerging from a qualitative analysis based on...
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– The purpose of this paper is twofold: to analyze to what extent innovation output of R & D collaborations, proxied by co-patenting activities in terms of quantity, characteristics and value, differs depending on whether the engaged R & D partners have a certain type of relationship (allies, suppliers and subsidiaries); to identify possibl...
Innovation is assuming increasing relevance in current economies, but being able to complete the innovation process is not enough for firms if they could not appropriate the value of their investments. Within this context, the aim of this paper is to understand whether SMEs may reap higher economic benefits while relying on formal regimes, in terms...
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– In today’s economy, intangibles have become more important than physical assets for firm success. In particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) registered an increasing trend in patenting, exceeding large firms in the number of patent registrations. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between...
In this century, characterized by increasing level of global competition and high technological development, the ability of firms to develop and exploit their innovative capabilities is widely recognized as a critical determinant of firm performance and competitive advantage. Intellectual Property represents knowledge that can be protected by recog...
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– The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of brands on small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance in the fashion industry, trying also to shed light on the different effect that corporate and product brands may produce.
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– The approach uses cross-sectional time series regression to investigate...
Purpose – Brands have become an increasingly valuable marketing tool in a crowded marketplace, since they allow consumers to distinguish firms and goods and make choices based on more reliable information (Lemper, 2012). Brand is defined as a complex symbol representing a variety of ideas and attributes that build up in the minds of consumers over...
Inter-organizational relationships have become both an academically rigorous discipline and an often pursued strategy by firms. Even if there is a wide body of the literature on this topic, some areas are still under researched; in particular market-oriented networks among SMEs and network dynamics as well are some aspects that deserve further stud...
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The special issue "Paving the way for performance management and management control in innovation networks" is going to be launched in Creativity & Innovation Management (ISI). Are you interested in joining? Deadline for first submission 31st October 2017.
Dear colleagues,
a special issue on IP Management is going to be published in Management Decision. Are you interested in submitting a contribution?
Deadlines
First submission: March 31st, 2016
First round revision: June 30th, 2016
Second submission: September 30th, 2016
Second round revision: December 31st, 2016
Publication: February/March 2017
Organizers
Lara Agostini, Anna Nosella
University of Padua – Department of Management and Engineering (Italy)
Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini
Cattaneo University - Institute for Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness (Italy)
Luisa Pellegrini
University of Pisa – Department of Electrical Systems and Automation (Italy)
Please look at the attached document or visit the dedicated website for further details: http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=6381