Sara Lombardi

• MSc in HR Management
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Florence

Purpose - Pervasive and rampant workplace incivility effects have called for more studies on antecedents and possible deterrents of the onset of negative organizational behaviors. Based on Social Exchange Theory (SET), this study proposes a framework investigating the underlying mechanisms of Team-Member Exchange (TMX) on Instigated Incivility. Des...

How can entrepreneurs be effective when making decisions? To enrich current research on entrepreneurship and cognition, the present study shows how alertness and decision making are closely related. Prompted by the scant attention that scholars have paid to the link between alertness and the pathways of entrepreneurs’ thought, it proposes that bein...

When engaging in licensing, companies may either use standard agreements or may embed the licensing deals into broader partnerships. Whether these alternative schemes are more frequently associated with particular types of licensors and licensees and whether they imply different outcomes for the two parties is still underinvestigated in the relevan...

Pervasive and rampant workplace incivility effects have called for more studies on antecedents and possible deterrents of the onset of such a phenomenon. Based on Social Exchange Theory (SET), this study proposes an analysis of the effect of Team-Member Exchange (TMX) on instigated incivility. The conceptual model simultaneously explores the combin...

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has had disastrous effects on the national economy. The hospitality sector has experienced a significant impact from the crisis: starting from March 2020 it has literally collapsed. Experts believe it will take three years for the sector to recover. Confronted with a dramatic uncertainty, which imposed r...

Purpose Building on the importance of students becoming entrepreneurs of their own career, this research aimed to achieve two main objectives: to empirically test the sequential relationship between the three dimensions of entrepreneurial alertness as proposed by Tang et al. (2012) and to link such dimensions to self-perceived employability. Desig...

This article is rooted in employee’s attitude literature which reveals the need for more integrations. Specifically, the study examines the relationship between employee voice, defined as any opportunity for employees to have a say in the workplace, and overall satisfaction at work, which refers to one’s job attitude reflecting an evaluative judgme...

Given their extra-role nature, knowledge-sharing behaviors need to be motivated. However, current literature fails to acknowledge that, instead of being determined by one type of motivation, they are more likely to derive from the joint effect to both intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation (i.e., rewards). Based on this, we expect extrinsic...

A comprehensive understanding of how affect influences cognition and the outcomes of decision-making is still lacking in the literature. Accordingly, this study explores the process that links affect and cognition with entrepreneurial decision-making effectiveness.

Purpose Building on the attitude–behavior relationship model, this study aims to contribute to customer orientation literature by suggesting that service employees’ commitment (i.e. personal attitude) affects their customer orientation via the effect of their participation in knowledge sharing with colleagues (i.e. employees’ behavior). Design/met...

Despite the relationship between brokerage and individual creativity has been extensively investigated in the literature, so far research has mostly focused on the diversity of information accessible from alters. In order to fill this gap, this work focuses on the relevance of ego's knowledge within diverse networks and suggests that brokers can be...

Despite the relationship between brokerage and individual creativity has been extensively investigated in the literature, so far research has mostly focused on the diversity of information accessible from alters. In order to fill this gap, this work focuses on the relevance of ego’s knowledge within diverse networks and suggests that brokers can be...

This paper questions the belief that gossip is always damaging and that people are more interested in negative than in positive information about others. Starting from this, we seek to understand whether a certain valenced gossip (positive vs. negative and malicious vs. non-malicious) is more likely to be spread in the workplace. We test this relat...

Cooperation and knowledge sharing among employees often lead to increased innovation. In this study, we explore the influence of a flatter organizational structure implementing lateral integrative mechanisms and the individuals’ intrinsic motivation on employees’ participation in exchanging their ideas and know-how with others in the organization....

Since some decades, researchers have started devoting attention to the topic of organizational creativity. Consistently with the literature, studying organizational creativity should take into account different aspects: the process, the product, the person, and the situation, as all of them interact with each other in affecting creativity [Giustini...

Cooperation and knowledge sharing among employees often lead to increased innovation. In this study, we explore the influence of a flatter organizational structure implementing lateral integrative mechanisms and the individuals’ intrinsic motivation on employees’ participation in exchanging their ideas and know-how with others in the organization....

Structured Abstract: Purpose Based on the interactionist perspective proposed by Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin (1993), this paper conceives organizational creativity as a complex concept whose investigation requires the understanding of the process, the product, the person, and the situation. Accordingly, this work attempts to enrich the understan...

Improving organizational creativity is not an easy task. According to the interactionist perspective drawn by Woodman et al. (1993), it requires several aspects to be taken into account, such as the creative process, the creative product, the creative person, and the creative situation, as all of them interact with each other in determining creativ...

I contributi teorici che si sono succeduti negli ultimi anni nel campo dell’organizzazione e del management hanno posto al centro della riflessione scientifica la conoscenza e la sua capacita di generare valore per le imprese. All’interno di questa prospettiva di analisi, uno dei filoni piu fecondi e rappresentato dagli studi sui processi di condiv...

Structured Abstract: Purpose Following previous studies, knowledge-sharing (KS) processes consist of knowledge donating (KD) and knowledge collecting (KC). Within this framework, the paper investigates the relationship between KS processes and KS enablers to understand the effect of organizational, individual and technological factors. Design/me...

Extant literature strongly recognizes the relevance of knowledge and intangible assets to firms’ survival (Brătianu & Orzea, 2009; Grant, 1996). Particularly, scholars show that successful organizations are characterized by extensive knowledge sharing and integration activities (Okhuysen & Eisenhardt, 2002; Scarso & Bolisani, 2010). However, knowle...

Top management team members play the role of boundary spanners in organizations, in that they are involved in managing their divisions and making strategic decisions internally, and at the same time have ties with entities external to the organization. Our paper provides a theoretical framework to understand how their engagement in several boundary...

Grounding on the interactionist perspective proposed by Woodman, Sawyer, and Griffin (1993), this paper conceives organizational creativity as a complex concept whose investigation requires the understanding of the process, the product, the person, and the situation. Accordingly, this work attempts to enrich the understanding of how organizational...

Despite the abundance of studies focusing on organizational creativity, only few considered it as a dependent variable. Further, while the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational creativity seems more solid for extant literature, the role of ICT use and top management support yet calls for further investigation. Based on this, we...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of different cultural typologies (i.e. innovative, competitive, bureaucratic and community) on employees’ knowledge-sharing processes within multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking a subsidiary perspective. It particularly applies the competing values framework to the study of individ...

The impact of the recent financial crisis has forced many companies to reexamine their organization design. Such a phenomenon has mostly arisen around a new consideration of the importance of some strategic intangible assets, such as the ones related to the company knowledge. The switch of centrality from tangible to intangible assets has stimulate...

The evolution, which has been characterizing the competitive market since some decades, has lead companies to reexamine and rebuild their organizational forms. Huge changes have been especially produced by the increasing awareness that the most strategic sources of competitive advantage are incorporated in the intangible assets, particularly in the...

Knowledge is a critical resource that can provide sustainable competitive advantage in dynamic economy. Current competition requires firms to learn more effectively and quickly than rivals, by valuing and exploiting their know-how as strategic driver of superior performance. Among the activities for managing knowledge-based resources, knowledge sha...