Lorenzo ArditoPolitecnico di Bari | Poliba · Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management
Lorenzo Ardito
PhD in Innovation and Technology Management and Sustainability
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Introduction
Hi there, Thanks for checking my profile. My research lies at the intersection of innovation management, digital transformation and corporate sustainability. I am open for collaborations in these (related) areas. If you have an interesting idea or data, please feel free to drop a message. Cheers, Lorenzo
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May 2015 - present
May 2015 - May 2016
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Publications (68)
Firms' ability to steady exploit their proprietary inventions via new products is an important driver to innovate, and then to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. However, the current state of the art on the main determinants affecting technology-based products' commercialization is characterized by the lack of an integrative framework, an...
We study how sourcing of applied and basic knowledge is related to the likelihood and speed at which inventions become innovations as well as their profitability. By using a patent database with unique commercialization information, we reveal that inventions strongly based on applied knowledge lead to innovations more quickly, while inventions embe...
Smart city transitions are a fast-proliferating example of urban innovation processes, and generating the insight required to support their unfolding should be a key priority for innovation scholars. However, after decades of research, governance mechanisms remain among the most undertheorized and relatively overlooked dimensions of smart city tran...
Family firm research agrees that family involvement in ownership gives rise to idiosyncratic innovation behaviors. However, whether family ownership fosters or hampers innovation is still debated because the distinction among the types of innovation outcomes has been often overlooked. To address this gap, we focus on exploratory innovation intensit...
What makes some families more entrepreneurial than others? How are they able to nurture entrepreneurship across generations? These are fundamental questions for family business and entrepreneurship research. In particular, the multigenerational dimension of entrepreneurial families (EFs) and the new family logics that emerge as the family grows may...
This paper examines brokerage dynamics in technology transfer networks (TTNs), i.e., hybrid networks of different actors operating in the transitional area between knowledge and business ecosystems (i.e., innovation ecotones), with research organizations as anchor tenants. This particular type of network is gaining increasing attention. However, de...
Purpose
This study aims to verify the influence of chief executive officer (CEO) cognitive trust and governmental support on marketing innovation. Additionally, it evaluated the influence of CEO cognitive trust on the marketing innovation of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs).
Design/methodology/approach
The authors empirically assessed th...
Recent technological advances have contributed to the rise of a new economic paradigm, the so-called sharing economy (SE), where peer-to-peer digital platforms allow individuals to temporarily share their assets. It has involved several industrial sectors generating significant economic impacts worldwide and attracting interest of the academic comm...
Join us at the R&D Management Conference 2022 "Innovation for People and Territories" (https://lnkd.in/dRMNgnch)!!!
Lorenzo Ardito, Claudio Dell'Era, Stefano Magistretti, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, and Angelo Natalicchio will chair the Track 2.8 "Humanity Driven Innovation: Recombining technologies and humanities to innovate" (https://lnkd.in/dZ...
Purpose
The effect of the transition toward digital technologies on today’s businesses (i.e. Industry 4.0 transition) is becoming increasingly relevant, and the number of studies that have examined this phenomenon has grown rapidly. However, systematizing the existing findings is still a challenge, from both a theoretical and a managerial point of...
Discovering regional technological capabilities is key to underpinning the place-based and evidence-driven logic of Smart Specialisation. However, a comprehensive methodological approach for operationalizing the mapping, assessment and benchmarking of regional technological knowledge is urgently required. To address this need, we design and test a...
Technological convergence is the phenomenon whereby a focal technology, originating in one domain of application, end up as a part of new technologies that pertain to distant domains of application. This phenomenon is assuming increasing relevance due to its potential to create new markets and disrupt existing ones. Therefore, by adopting a search...
Design thinking (DT) is gaining ground among academics and practitioners as a means to improve the innovativeness of organizations. However, with few exceptions, DT studies are mostly entrenched in practice rather than theory‐driven research. This weak tie between theory and managerial practice calls for delving into the dynamics of DT for innovati...
Purpose
This paper adopts an intellectual capital perspective to investigate the role of owners who are ethnic minorities in the foreign market expansion performance of SMEs, and in particular considers the human capital dimension of intellectual capital.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on the empirical investigation of a sample of 10,326 small-...
One of the problems in the field of technology analysis and innovation management is how new technologies origin and evolve in the presence of environmental threats. The goal of this study is to analyze evolution of innovations to cope with new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is generating health and economic concerns worldwide. In the theoreti...
One of the key issues in the field of technology analysis and innovation management is how new technologies origin and evolve in the presence of environmental threats. We confront this problem focusing on emerging innovative solutions to cope with unexpected and harmful problems posed by crises and needing a rapid, effective response. We specifical...
Debate surrounding the performance outcomes of a firm's strategic commitment to digitalization and environmental sustainability (namely, digital orientation and environmental orientation, respectively) is gathering pace. Despite progress, there remains no conclusive evidence on whether, and how digital orientation and environmental orientations enh...
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This study explores the vulnerability and resilience of the US Leisure and Hospitality industry sector-wise by taking employment levels in seven different business segments. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model approach was applied to daily time series data of employment and COVID-19 to assess each sector's fragility and resilience. The f...
Prior studies have examined the link between female representation in the boards of directors (BoD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, these studies have underestimated the multidimensional nature of CSR, whereby CSR comprises different dimensions, and organizations engage in CSR activities in various degrees, thus leading to poten...
The relevance of microgravity research—i.e., research activities related to the possibility to generate and/or take advantage of an environment scantly affected by gravitational effects—is becoming more and more important for both policymakers and executives, not only in the aerospace domain but also in many other domains. However, tracing the evol...
This study examines the impact of family management on digital transformation with specific regard to the firm’s development of Internet of Things (IoT) innovations. Drawing on the distinctive characteristics of firms with family managers, such as the focus on family‐centered non‐economic goals, long tenure, emotional ties to existing assets, and r...
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Developing marketable products based on proprietary technologies is the key to success in many firms, but it is still a big challenge. Factors explaining when technologies are more likely to lead to a marketable product are not fully understood yet. This gap calls f...
Tourism contributions to economic growth and well-being have been widely acknowledged; however, its impacts on the environment demand an integrated approach to policy improvement across institutions in the emerging economies for the development of sustainable tourism practices. This study investigates the causal relationship between tourism, econom...
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue titled “Innovation and Technology Management and Sustainability”.
Technological innovation and sustainability are becoming more and more intertwined. Indeed, new, innovative technologies can provide a relevant contribution to the reduction of environmental burden and/or the improv...
Tourism is considered a competent driver of development in emerging economies. This study assesses the role of tourism in shaping the fundamental pillars of development in developing economies by targeting the case of Pakistan. Various econometric techniques and approaches were used to investigate the causal relationships of tourism with economic g...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of the presence in foreign markets on small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) financial performance. Furthermore, it seeks to examine the moderating effect of corporate group and alliance portfolio size on this relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the authors develop hypo...
The present paper aims at understanding whether and under which circumstances leveraging scientific knowledge helps teams to develop technologies that can be applied to diverse domains (i.e. more general-purpose technologies). Specifically, the relationship between the presence of scientists within inventing teams and the generality of the technolo...
In this paper, we introduce the themes addressed and the approaches used in the Special Issue “Firm Size and Sustainable Innovation Management” to investigate the relationships between firm size and sustainable innovation management. Specifically, by offering multiple perspectives of analysis, this work increases our comprehension and understanding...
In the era of digital transformation, Big Data have assumed a crucial role in changing the global travel and providing significant challenges and opportunities for established companies, as well as new entrants into the tourism industry. All these companies can get valuable information on Big Data for predicting tourist demand, enabling better deci...
The present paper seeks to unveil the influence of the decision to ally with partners of diverse types and from different geographical locations (i.e., the internationalization of alliance portfolio diversity) on the ability of firms to balance radical and incremental innovation efforts (i.e., innovation ambidexterity). We address this goal by embr...
Leadership is essential for the success of every organization, as people believe in the ability of their leaders to guide change and achieve success. Today's law firms are operating in a complex business environment and facing huge competition from both clients and talent. Tough competition, business alliances, corporate social responsibleness, and...
In order to adhere to the concept of sustainable development, firms are increasingly expected to develop innovations that reconcile economic, environmental, and social goals (i.e., sustainable innovations). However, achieving this goal is not straightforward, and although several studies have attempted to improve our understanding of sustainable in...
It has been argued that ambidexterity can be achieved by establishing strategic alliances with partners that occupy a downstream or upstream position in the innovation value chain (i.e., alliance ambidexterity), hence reconciling the tensions between exploration and exploitation. However, empirical tests confirming that this partnering strategy imp...
This paper, by analysing technology attributes, examines the degree to which companies build on environmental technologies generated by public research organisations (PROs) to develop the related technological solutions. Three main technology attributes have been considered: (i) the level of establishment, (ii) the scope of application , and (iii)...
Legal technologies (digital solutions to providing legal services) have turned into the essential element of competition among legal-market stakeholders. This study highlights the competitive superiority of legal services based on the concept of innovative disruptive technologies in comparison to traditional firms. For this purpose, the present stu...
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Digitalization has created a new level of fluidity in innovation processes, as reflected by the opportunity to further open firms’ boundaries for external knowledge sourcing to innovate, ho...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize and classify the literature linking Big Data analytics and management phenomena.
Design/methodology/approach
An objective bibliometric analysis is conducted, supported by subjective assessments based on the studies focused on the intertwining of Big Data analytics and management fields. Specifical...
This paper analyses how universities leverage knowledge coming from different technological, institutional, and geographical domains to develop technologies exerting a relevant impact for firms’ technological advancements. The analysis is based on a panel of 219 worldwide universities that filed, at least, a patent belonging to the alternative ener...
Extant research has neglected an in-depth examination of the relationship between external knowledge sourcing and the ability of firms to balance radical and incremental innovation activities (i.e., innovation ambidexterity). Therefore, the present paper seeks to reveal the effects of knowledge sourcing activities directed toward three relevant sup...
The present paper investigates the relationship between the involvement of family
firms in R&D collaborations aimed at developing green solutions and the value of
resulting innovations. To dig into this relationship, the moderating effects of two
proximity dimensions (i.e., geographical distance and technological relatedness) are
also assessed. Ana...
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The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive picture of the innovative efforts undertaken over time to develop the digital technologies for managing the interface between supply chain management and mark...
The present paper investigates the relationship between the involvement of family firms in R&D collaborations aimed at developing green solutions and the value of resulting innovations. To dig into this relationship, the moderating effects of two proximity dimensions (i.e., geographical distance and technological relatedness) are also assessed. Ana...
The development of smart cities is becoming more and more based on knowledge management (KM) frameworks. This leads to new managerial challenges, which reflect the complexity of KM governance and processes issues of smart city projects as well as the need to manage knowledge that originates both within and beyond projects' boundaries. However, in-d...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the relationship between three types of process innovations (i.e. innovation in production, IT, and logistics processes) and ambidexterity performance. Specifically, the paper attempts to examine whether changes in business processes help companies to reconcile exploration and exploitation learning...
This paper investigates whether and how the relationship between knowledge maturity and innovation value
depends on firm age and size. Thus, we seek to advance the search and recombinant perspective of innovation by revealing that the successful recombination of knowledge inputs of different ages is strictly related to structural characteristics of...
Reducing firm environmental burden is not easy. Thus, several studies have investigated the antecedents of good firm environmental performance; however, they provide contrasting results, focus on specific categories of antecedents, and often rely on subjective performance measures. This study overcomes these gaps by jointly considering the effects...
The present research examines how to improve the effectiveness of markets for university inventions from a demand side perspective. Specifically, it is examined whether and how the likelihood that university patents are purchased by companies is dependent upon the characteristics of patents' underlying knowledge. Two knowledge characteristics are a...
Purpose
Knowledge assumes a pivotal role in the open innovation (OI) paradigm. Yet, OI has been scantly investigated by adopting a knowledge management (KM) lens. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic literature review of the KM practices analysed by prior literature to support OI activities.
Design/methodology/approach
T...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm in the ICT sector and it is at the center of many current political and economic debates. Scholars, executives, and policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in understanding how to turn the IoT into reality, since various technological constraints (e.g., standardization and interoperabil...
External technology acquisition has been proved to be an important strategy to enhance firms’ innovation performance. However, previous studies claim that companies acquiring technologies tend to not carry on with this strategy over time, thus limiting their attitude toward continuous technology acquisition. Moreover, the extant literature also hig...
Prior research has argued that external knowledge sourcing can be supported by effective strategic human resource (HR) practices. However, whether and how the adoption of new organizational mechanisms in group settings influences the relationship between external search strategies and innovation performance represents an unanswered question. Theref...
Much work has been done on developing recommender system (RS) algorithms, on comparing them using business metrics (such as customers’ trust or perception of recommendations’ novelty) and on exploring users’ reactions to recommendations. It was demonstrated that different recommender systems perform differently on several performance metrics and th...
The present article sheds new light on the role of established technologies as a driving force behind technological evolution, hence unveiling their breakthrough potential. Specifically, going against the conventional wisdom that only nascent technologies significantly shape future technological developments, we examine the likelihood that establis...
This study analyzes how general purpose technologies are developed within the green energy field, by examining the relationship between search breadth across diverse knowledge domains and the technological generality of the resulting inventions. Particularly, we investigate if this relationship is moderated by the R&D team composition, focusing on...
In the recent past, the open innovation paradigm has emerged as a widely discussed and implemented innovation practice. Specifically, it mainly implies a purposive outflows and inflows of knowledge to accelerate organizations’ internal innovation processes and better benefit from internal innovative efforts (e.g. Chesbrough et al., 2006; Chesbrough...
Adopting a multi-level perspective, this study investigates the relationships between technology characteristics, firms’ diversification strategies, and the market introduction of new products resulting from firms’ proprietary technological solutions. Specifically, we analyze how the breakthrough nature and technological generality of inventions im...
Questions
Questions (14)
I am studying the inclination of companies to associate a new trademark (TM) with the commercialization of radical innovations.
Do you know examples of companies that decided to apply (or not apply) for a TM to commercialize a radical innovation (eg., a new product)?
I am asking this because, on the one hand, firms may improve appropriability over the radical product thanks to the TM. But, on the other hand, a firm may have an existing TM, so choosing to use it to commercialize the product since that brand is already known among customers while the product is distant from their existing values. What do you think about?
Dear all,
The recent literature has stressed on the relevant role that technology acquisition is of foremost importance to sustain internal innovation activities, which is in line with the open innovation paradigm. In detail, I refer to firms that buy external technologies.
However, I was wondering if and why companies are engaged in continuous technology acquisition. In other words, many companies have acquired at least one external solution. But, to what extent they continue to rely on technology acquisition after they have tried it for the first time? Do you have statistics saying something like "firms tend to acquire only one (or few) technology" or, conversely, "firms usually tend to continue to acquire technologies after that they have acquired the first one"?
Dear all,
I measured a variable that takes values between 0 and 0.1 (with a minimum of 0.00053). This variable will be used in a regression analysis, but it has values of skewness and kurtosis of 3.8 and 14.3, respectively, hence requiring a transformation in order to reduce those values.
I first thought about a log transformation. However, in this way, the resulting values of the variable will be negative, and I would avoid this. Another option is multiplying all values for 1,000 and then use a log transformation. But, how can I justify this choice to referees?
Have you ever experienced this problem? How have you solved it?
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Best
Let's suppose that I want to regress A over B and B over C using SEM. Is it possible to also add the variable A square to see whether A has a curvilinear effect on B?
Thank you
Some studies argue (e.g., Connelly et al. 2010; Nadkarni & Chen 2014; Penner-Hahn & Shaver 2005) that to test the interaction hypotheses in random-effects negative binomial regression, they splitted the sample by observation. Specifically, they examined the marginal effect of the moderated variable on the dependent variable in two subsamples, testing whether the effect was higher (lower) when the moderator was above (below) the mean.
Do you know hot to calculate the marginal effects? Could you provide a short example?
Thank you.
References
Connelly, Brian L. and Tihanyi, Laszlo and Certo, S. Trevis and Hitt, Michael A., Marching to the Beat of Different Drummers: The Influence of Institutional Owners on Competitive Actions (2010). Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 53, pp. 723-742, 2010.
Nadkarni, S. and Chen, J. (2014) Bridging Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: CEO Temporal Focus, Environmental Dynamism, and Rate of New Product Introduction. Academy of Management Journal, 57, 1810-1833.
Penner-Hahn, J. and Shaver, J. M. (2005) Does international research and development increase patent output? An analysis of Japanese pharmaceutical firms. Strategic Management Journal, 26, 121-140.
I run a random-effects negative binomial regression. Using estimates of the regression, I would like to plot the effect of my independent variable (GeoDispersion) on my dependent variable (Acquired), hence confirming the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect. How can I do that? Please find enclosed tables of descriptive statistics and results of the regression model.
Thank you in advance for your availability.
I am attempting to measure if a company introduces a product based on its own inventions using trademark data. In other words, I aim to assess if a firm that has patented technologies in the green energy field has also introduced products embedding them, as represented by its trademarks registered after the application of its patents.
What do you think about? Do you have examples of this kind of firm behavior?
