R&D innovation indicator and its effects on the market. An empirical assessment from a financial perspective

Daniela Coluccia, Marina Dabić, Manlio Del Giudice, Stefano Fontana, Silvia Solimene - We propose an alternative firm-level measure for innovation activities—R&D elasticity—and we analyse its effects on the Tobin's Q of listed companies on the Euronext 100 Index. We find that R&D elasticity is positively related to market appreciation by stakeholder investors. Moreover, we analyse the role of default risk in the relationship between innovation activities and market value, and find that firms' default probabilities are negatively related to Tobin's Q.

The role of universities in the knowledge management of smart city projects

Lorenzo Ardito, Alberto Ferraris, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Stefano Bresciani, Manlio Del Giudice - 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.

CEO turnover and the newleader propensity to open innovation: Agency-Resource Dependence View and Social Identity Perspective

Anna Maria Biscotti, Elisabetta Mafrolla, Manlio Del Giudice, Eugenio D’Amico - In an increasingly turbulent and competitive environment, open innovation could be critical for a firm’s success, favoring organizational flexibility and accelerating innovation processes. However, sharing innovation projects with external partners often requires changes in traditional organizational behavior and visions of CEOs. The purpose of this paper is to theorize and empirically verify how the CEO turnover and some socially relevant characteristics of the old and the new CEO may impact firms’ propensity toward open innovation under an integrated agency-resource dependence view and social identity perspective.

Comparing supply chain risks for multiple product categories with cognitive mapping and Analytic Hierarchy Process

Monika Mital, Manlio Del Giudice, Armando Papa - The risk management framework includes the practice of keeping safety stocks and safety lead time buffers. However, in today's high-tech and highly globalized world where competition is so fierce and paramount that managing and mitigating the risk by creating a more resilient supply chain has become indispensable for any organization.

The causal relation between entrepreneurial ecosystem and productive entrepreneurship: A measurement framework

Melita Nicotra, Marco Romano, Manlio Del Giudice & Carmela Elita Schillaci - The paper proposes a framework for measuring and testing the causal effects of a set of entrepreneurial ecosystems factors (eco-factors) on productive entrepreneurship (eco-output). Existing research studies provide long lists of relevant eco-factors; however, the causal relations of eco-factors with productive entrepreneurship has not been sufficiently and holistically studied.

Building entrepreneurial ecosystems exploring ambidexterity in technology and engineering management

Manlio Del Giudice, Elias Carayannis, Shlomo Tarba, Pedro Soto-Acosta - Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. Interested authors should send abstracts by June 30th 2018. Decisions on acceptance of abstracts by September 30th 2018. Papers submitted by March 31st 2019. Entrepreneurial intensity, knowledge management and innovation ambidexterity Traditional vs. value basedfinancial measures of entrepreneurial intensity; Entrepreneurial intensity andvalue creation; Entrepreneurial opportunitiesthrough knowledge/technologytransfer; Knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial intensity; MIS, entrepreneurial intentionsand fast growing firms; Entrepreneurism in Global and local ecosystems; Knowledge/Technology transferand value creation within global ecosystems; Technological Entrepreneurship Evaluation of firm performance and entrepreneurial intensity in knowledge intensive markets; Knowledge/technology management initiatives for ambidextrous contexts; Relationships between intellectual capital, organizational ambidexterity and entrepreneurial intensity.