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Understanding sustainable innovation: A systematic literature review

Valentina Cillo, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Lorenzo Ardito, Manlio Del Giudice - 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 innovation, a systematization of extant findings is lacking. Therefore, this paper conducts a literature review with the objective of organizing previous research regarding sustainable innovation.

Big data analytics, dynamic capabilities and firm performance

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Manlio Del Giudice - Big data has high operational and strategic potential vis-à-vis business value creation and is simply the next big thing in innovation (Gobble, 2013) as it creates actionable ideas for firm performance and competitive advantage (Wamba et al., 2015). Big data necessitates much more than application of new analytics (El-Kassar and Singh, 2018) as firms that learn to take advantage of big data unbridle new organizational abilities and value (Davenport et al., 2012).

Are social enterprises technological innovative? A quantitative analysis on social entrepreneurs in emerging countries

Manlio Del Giudice, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Veronica Scuotto, Beatrice Orlando - Technological innovation is the new backbone for companies. Exploiting and exploring new knowledge increase the chance of survival in the current dynamic market. Alongside, there are countries were be an innovative need to face up social and political challenges. This has transformed their economy, spreading an entrepreneurial mindset mingled with the willing to help a local community. This phenomenon is called social entrepreneurship which is leveraging new economies and building wealth, environmental system. In this vein, the present research seeks to offer qualitative research on 142 social entrepreneurs in an emerging country.

Refining the relation between cause-related marketing and consumers purchase intentions

Alberto Ferraris, Manlio Del Giudice, Balakrishna Grandhi, Valentina Cillo - Cause-related marketing (CRM) is an ever growing marketing strategy developed by companies that may result in a win-win-win strategy for business, non-profit organizations and society. However, the specific relationship between CRM and consumers purchase intentions (PI) has been analyzed in a fragmented way within the mainstream literature. Grounding on this, the purpose of this paper is to give a more comprehensive and fine grained view of this phenomenon, testing the effect of several moderators on the relationships between CRM and consumers PI in two different countries.

Environmental ethics, environmental performance, and competitive advantage: Role of environmental training

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Jin Chen, Manlio Del Giudice, Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar - In an era of increased stakeholder pressure for sustainable environmental management practices at workplace, organization should adopt and implement environmental ethics for seamless synergy amongst the needs of the business, the society, and the planet. Our study used resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities (DC) theoretical lenses to examine hypotheses derived from extant literature on the linkages amongst environmental ethics, environmental training, environmental performance and competitive advantage.

Niche tourism destinations’ online reputation management and competitiveness in big data era: evidence from three Italian cases

Valentina Cillo, Riccardo Rialti, Manlio Del Giudice, Antonio Usai - This research investigates the importance for niche tourism destinations of investing in big data analytics (BDA) to improve their online reputation management (ORM) and increase their competitiveness. Specifically, it explores how BDA may allow niche tourism destination managers to better monitor their reputation and, in turn, increase the capability of such destinations to attract new tourists.

Behind ambidextrous search: The microfoundations of search in family and non-family firms

Ambra Mazzelli, Alfredo De Massis, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Manlio Del Giudice, Zaheer Khan - We offer a microfoundational perspective to challenge the consensual view of ambidextrous search as a superior approach to addressing performance problems. We characterize the nature of search as both ostensive and agentic, and suggest that search performance is idiosyncratic across individuals and highly dependent on decision makers' cognitive frameworks and social contexts.

Do Knowledge Management and Dynamic Capabilities Affect Ambidextrous Entrepreneurial Intensity and Firms’ Performance?

Gabriele Santoro; Alkis Thrassou; Stefano Bresciani; Manlio Del Giudice - Amidst a contemporary fast-changing business environment, scholars and practitioners alike increasingly recognize knowledge management (KM) and dynamic capabilities as key elements in the development of firms’ competitive advantage. Our understanding of the effect of KM on firm performance, nonetheless, is still limited, as in fact are the circumstances under which KM and dynamic capabilities affect firms’ ambidexterity, which reflects firms’ ability to conduct synchronous exploration and exploitation activities.

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.