Stefano Denicolai

• Full professor at University of Pavia

The Italian Region of Lombardy formally established the creation of a network of Pancreas Units at the beginning of 2022 to increase the care of one of the worst cancers in the clinical scenario. Such new organisational structures see the employment of a large number of multidisciplinary professionals in a patient-centric approach. Several organisa...

The healthcare sector has always paid attention to social and economic sustainability. Still, healthcare is a relevant industry with a high environmental impact. There is a call to include and consider environmental sustainability as a guiding principle for the healthcare sector of tomorrow. The United Kingdom, through its NHS and Royal Colleges, h...

Il settore sanitario è da sempre attento alle dinamiche legate alle sostenibilità sociale ed economica. Tuttavia, la sanità rappresenta un'industria che, date le proprie caratteristiche (un numero elevato di addetti e di strutture, pratiche manageriali complesse, largo impiego di beni sia consumabili che di investimento), produce un importante impa...

Editorial on the Research Topic New frontiers in pancreatic cancer care: Multidisciplinary approaches, the role of pancreas units, and their organizational impacts

Background: Shared decision-making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is one of the pillars of the modern patient-centric philosophy of care. This study aims to explore SDM in the discipline of trauma and emergency surgery, investigating its interpretation as well as the barriers and facilitators for its implementation among surgeons. Methods:...

(the Team Dynamics Study Group) Abstract Background Shared decision-making (SDM) between clinicians and patients is one of the pillars of the modern patient-centric philosophy of care. This study aims to explore SDM in the discipline of trauma and emergency surgery, investigating its interpretation as well as the barriers and facilitators for its i...

Prior research lacks an understanding of how decision makers preserve longevity within family businesses. This study examines longevity under a microfoundational lens, through an interpretive qualitative research design. The selected cases are nine long-established Australian family wineries. The outcome is a multilevel grounded model of the preser...

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction in medicine and surgery. AI-based applications can offer tools to examine high-volume data to inform predictive analytics that supports complex decision-making processes. Time-sensitive trauma and emergency contexts are often challenging. The study aims to investigate trauma and emergenc...

Il cancro del pancreas rappresenta nel contesto sanitario moderno una sfida clinica molto complessa, con prognosi spesso infauste e un percorso di cura difficile. La Regione Lombardia ha di recente creato, all’interno del sistema sanitario regionale, un network di Pancreas unit caratterizzate dalla presenza di personale clinico multidisciplinare e...

Verso la rete regionale lombarda di Pancreas Unit Lettera al Direttore di Quotidiano Sanità

Dramatic health, environmental, and social-related challenges put pressure on firms to rethink their strategies and growth paths. Is a digital-enabled transformation able to help firms cope with these challenges and drive a competitive renaissance of our economic system? Are extant theories and concepts able to interpret the digital transformation?...

This study investigates if and how the definition of an ‘innovation strategy’ affects the execution of digital transformation initiatives within healthcare organisations, managing institutional pressures, and accounting for contingent factors. If and how the pandemic altered the way top managers in healthcare make sense of these challenges are key...

La chirurgia d'urgenza e del trauma è un contesto particolarmente complesso, in cui il personale sanitario deve lavorare sotto pressione, spesso con limitata conoscenza ri-spetto alla causa del trauma, all'identità del paziente, alle sue patologie pregresse e preferenze di cura. I team di chirurgia d'urgenza sono multidisciplinari e coordinati da u...

La pandemia da Covid-19 ha causato un'interruzione di diversi servizi sanitari. L'Italia è stata duramente colpita dalla prima ondata della pandemia all'inizio del 2020. In particolar modo, la Lombardia si è posizionata come una delle Regioni più colpite, dovendo far fronte a un rilevante numero di pazienti con difficoltà respiratorie con scarsità...

Frontiers in Oncology & Frontiers in Surgery joint call for papers ******************************************************************************* Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/37943/new-frontiers-in-pancreatic-cancer-care-multidisciplinary-approaches-the-role-of-pancreas-units-and *******************************************...

In this study, we empirically explore the relationships among process innovation, internationalization, and the reconfiguration of the firm’s activities at the global level. In particular, we analyze the extent to which these factors are related to the propensity to adopt additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. Internationalization and value-chai...

Logistics appears as a fundamental process in modern institutions, including healthcare ones, which often have to coordinate multiple flows of materials and goods between different locations, often in urgency and dealing with critical material. In recent years, many healthcare organizations in Italy and abroad have begun to critically assess their...

Innovation is widely considered one of the most important drivers for firm growth in the contemporary economy. However, the ‘elusive’ as well as heterogeneous nature of innovation has generated a lively debate among scholars with regards to the best metrics to capture its features and effects. Often, this has led to a reliance on R&D and/or patent-...

The use of robotics is becoming widespread in healthcare. However, little is known about how robotics can affect the relationship with patients in epidemic emergency response or how it impacts clinicians in their organization and work. As a hospital responding to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic "ASST dei Sette Laghi" (A7L) in Varese, Ital...

Internationalization, digitalization, and sustainability are three key growth paths for firms. In particular, the contemporary economy stresses the relevance of digital transformation as a central driver towards innovation and business renewal, especially for established small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). However, little is known about the...

Precision Medicine (PM) is expected to be one of the biggest revolutions of the upcoming years and not only in the healthcare industry. PM aims to prevent and treat disease on the basis of a person's unique genetic makeup, lifestyle habits, and environment. While the topic has attracted huge attention from scholars in the biomedical field of resear...

This study examines the relationship between international performance and the orientation of the firm towards trademark acquisition, and discusses family ownership as a moderator of this association. We conceptualize our study along three interrelated lines of ‘openness’ i.e. openness towards external resources, openness of governance, and opennes...

What HR practices are SMEs implementing to favor corporate entrepreneurship

This study aims to provide insights as to how the adoption of additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies might affect firm’s global value chain and its dynamics (GVCs), thus addressing a relevant gap in International Business studies. In particular, we focus on firm’s decisions with regards to governance – in-house vs outsourcing – and local...

Innovation has gained growing attention in the strategic management field, and — as a strategic orientation — it has been predominantly considered as a homogenous class of differentiated strategic mindsets. This contribution aims at distinguishing different sub-typologies of innovation strategies and validating their profiles and consistency. It ex...

Purpose The purpose of this paper, according to the evolutionary perspective of resilience, is to provide a revised adaptive cycle model that explains how organisations that are embedded in a local system can foster their resilience. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory case study analysis was carried out. The study adopted the methods and p...

An important challenge in open innovation is the capability to absorb and exploit external inbound knowledge, and how internal R&D may facilitate or hinder this. Conventionally, internal R&D expenditure is used as a proxy for absorptive capacity, but in the context of open innovation, this can be problematic. Internal R&D may also constrain present...

This study investigates the interplay of firms' business strategies and their export activities, with a special emphasis on the role of niche strategies in the early and fast internationalisation of new and young ventures. By coupling theoretical arguments with case-based empirical evidence, we offer insights on how the niche strategic pattern can...

PurposeTo provide a theoretical explanation of why outsourcing relationships are inherently dynamic, in that the dependence of each party upon the other inevitably changes over time and thus so too will the power asymmetries between the parties. Methodology/approachOur approach is theoretical and draws upon insights from resource dependence theory,...

Nel novembre 2014 l’Università di Pavia ha attivato una propria piattaforma di crowdfunding, denominata “Universitiamo”, a sostegno di progetti di ricerca. L’iniziativa, prima in Italia nell’ambito del settore dell’educazione superiore, è stata realizzata utilizzando il software di editoria e di gestione dei contenuti WordPress. La forma ibrida di...

Be international? Be innovative? Be international and innovative? Following the logic of the upper echelon (UE) perspective, this paper studies the impact of the entrepreneur(s) demography, background, and experience on their strategic choices, i.e., innovation, internationalization, or a combination of the two strategies. We employ cluster analysi...

Nowadays universities are not only active partners in the promotion of cities and regions but become key subjects that decide on growth possibilities in cities and development directions for innovation and entrepreneurship in a given territory. Relationships between cities and universities result in various collaboration models and interactions. Th...

This study investigates and measures the impact of intangibles on firm growth. We distinguish between internally and externally generated intangible assets and analyse the role played by firm size, measuring if it can alter the relationship between intangibles and performance. In doing so, we combine the resource-based view of the firm – as a corne...

Business model innovation (BMI) often involves the acquisition of external resources, their integration with and adaptation to internal capabilities and the exploitation of these novel combinations to create and capture value in new ways. However, studies focusing on the relationships among capabilities, BMI and firm performance are rare. In this p...

In the last years, the global economy has undergone a dramatic change. Developed economies face the challenge of new players from emerging countries, slow growth problems, and even recession, combined with a weaker entrepreneurial activity (Amoros and Bosma, 2014). This new economic order calls for a significant reshaping of competition, which leve...

This paper investigates how intangible knowledge assets impact upon firm international performance through the analysis of a sample of 290 European listed companies. We draw upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, and argue that more knowledge assets have a positive impact on foreign sales intensity, but only a up to a point. The inverse quadrat...

The purpose of this article is to propose a complementary approach to the analysis of tourism systems which is grounded on theoretical frameworks deriving from the fields of dynamic capabilities and destination management. In particular, the paper explores the relationship between the networking approach of tourism firms and the development of tour...

The aim of this paper is to develop a better understanding of network relationships in local tourism clusters and illustrate inter-organizational forms in mountain tourism. The networking among mountain tourism resorts, aimed at solving organizational and technological shortfalls, in order to promote integrated but flexible tourist packages, has le...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the alliance/network best practices on the evolution of internal organizational capabilities. The core idea is that kind of best practices - at the domestic and international level - represent different superior abilities to exploit and to explore collaborative know-how (Simonin, 1997) which enhance i...