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Dr. Marco Greco
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Via G. Di Biasio 41, 03043 Cassino, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 30 June 2021 in International Journal of Production Economics
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Despite the popularity of reverse logistics in literature, the effect of different collaboration types on the likelihood to introduce reverse logistics innovation has been under-investigated. Hence, this article explores the impact of domestic collaboration with competitors, customers, suppliers, research institutions, and the breadth of collaboration on a firm's reverse logistics innovation. Four hypotheses - grounded on institutional, resource dependence, and absorptive capacity theories – are tested through generalized structural equation modelling analyses on a longitudinal sample of German firms. The results show a positive impact of vertical collaboration, horizontal collaboration, and collaboration with research institutions on the likelihood to introduce reverse logistics innovation. In contrast, collaboration breadth has a negative impact on reverse logistics, an unexpected and surprising result for the innovation management literature. The article offers recommendations to practitioners as to which partners are more likely to increase the odds of introducing reverse logistics innovation and demonstrates that – to such an aim - firms should select a limited number of partners, identifying the ones that suit their needs the most.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. An investigation on the effect of inter-organizational collaboration on reverse logistics. International Journal of Production Economics 2021, 240, 108216 .

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Livio Cricelli, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi. An investigation on the effect of inter-organizational collaboration on reverse logistics. International Journal of Production Economics. 2021; 240 ():108216.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. 2021. "An investigation on the effect of inter-organizational collaboration on reverse logistics." International Journal of Production Economics 240, no. : 108216.

Journal article
Published: 31 October 2020 in Technovation
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a policy mix between general innovation policies and environmental policies in fostering the adoption of global warming-related eco-innovations both in the short term and long term. Focusing on process eco-innovations, we investigate whether the combined impact of general innovation and environmental policy instruments, which we term a cross-instrumental policy mix, is greater than their individual impact. We examined data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel on German firms, investigating both cross-sectional data from 2015 and longitudinal data from two waves of the survey conducted in 2009 and 2015. We apply two models, based respectively on a matching analysis and a panel analysis. We find that cross-instrumental policy mix has a stronger positive effect on process eco-innovations than the impact of general innovation policy instruments alone, both in the short and long term. In contrast, although we expected the greater impact of a cross-instrumental policy mix relative to environmental policy instruments, this argument is not supported by our empirical results. Our study offers policy implications concerning the coordination of innovation and environmental policies in achieving an optimal policy mix.

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Marco Greco; Francesca Germani; Michele Grimaldi; Dragana Radicic. Policy mix or policy mess? Effects of cross-instrumental policy mix on eco-innovation in German firms. Technovation 2020, 102194 .

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Marco Greco, Francesca Germani, Michele Grimaldi, Dragana Radicic. Policy mix or policy mess? Effects of cross-instrumental policy mix on eco-innovation in German firms. Technovation. 2020; ():102194.

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Marco Greco; Francesca Germani; Michele Grimaldi; Dragana Radicic. 2020. "Policy mix or policy mess? Effects of cross-instrumental policy mix on eco-innovation in German firms." Technovation , no. : 102194.

Journal article
Published: 06 October 2020 in Journal of Business Research
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Adequate management of intellectual property (IP) is critical to sustaining competitive advantage and managing outbound open innovation (OI), which describes the inside-out flows of knowledge and technology. This article presents an IP strategic framework comprising the following strategies: a ‘defensive’ strategy, aimed at avoiding knowledge spillovers and building barriers to competition; a ‘collaborative’ strategy, aimed at collaborating with other organizations and entering new markets; and an ‘impromptu’ strategy, which describes firms protecting their IP without a clear purpose. We investigate the relationships of such IP strategies with outbound OI and innovation performance in 158 Italian firms. Most of them declared an impromptu IP strategy. We found that not having any IP protection strategy can be a barrier to outbound OI and that firms with a defensive IP strategy embraced outbound OI more than those declaring a collaborative IP strategy. Finally, firms with collaborative IP strategies outperformed those with defensive strategies.

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Michele Grimaldi; Marco Greco; Livio Cricelli. A framework of intellectual property protection strategies and open innovation. Journal of Business Research 2020, 123, 156 -164.

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Michele Grimaldi, Marco Greco, Livio Cricelli. A framework of intellectual property protection strategies and open innovation. Journal of Business Research. 2020; 123 ():156-164.

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Michele Grimaldi; Marco Greco; Livio Cricelli. 2020. "A framework of intellectual property protection strategies and open innovation." Journal of Business Research 123, no. : 156-164.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2020 in Industrial Marketing Management
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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. Interorganizational collaboration strategies and innovation abandonment: The more the merrier? Industrial Marketing Management 2020, 90, 679 -692.

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Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli. Interorganizational collaboration strategies and innovation abandonment: The more the merrier? Industrial Marketing Management. 2020; 90 ():679-692.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. 2020. "Interorganizational collaboration strategies and innovation abandonment: The more the merrier?" Industrial Marketing Management 90, no. : 679-692.

Journal article
Published: 11 July 2020 in International Journal of Project Management
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Megaprojects require substantial R&D activities involving many different organisations. Megaprojects are therefore an ideal setting for Open Innovation (OI), which favours risk-sharing, enables trustful collaboration, and facilitates the development of breakthrough innovations. OI has been widely studied at the organisational level, however far less attention has been paid at the individual level, including the motivations, costs and benefits perceived by the people involved in the innovation process. This paper aims to address this gap by studying the micro-foundations of OI in megaprojects and focusing on the experiences of people involved in university-industry co-supervised Ph.D. projects. The paper provides two original contributions. Firstly, it contributes to the micro-foundations literature, by analysing the experience of university and industrial supervisors and Ph.D. students involved in megaprojects. Secondly, it expands the OI literature by describing how the interpersonal interactions and the intentional knowledge spillovers promote innovation outside the original boundaries of the Ph.D. project.

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Giorgio Locatelli; Marco Greco; Diletta Colette Invernizzi; Michele Grimaldi; Stefania Malizia. What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects. International Journal of Project Management 2020, 39, 115 -127.

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Giorgio Locatelli, Marco Greco, Diletta Colette Invernizzi, Michele Grimaldi, Stefania Malizia. What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects. International Journal of Project Management. 2020; 39 (2):115-127.

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Giorgio Locatelli; Marco Greco; Diletta Colette Invernizzi; Michele Grimaldi; Stefania Malizia. 2020. "What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects." International Journal of Project Management 39, no. 2: 115-127.

Journal article
Published: 20 November 2019 in Journal of Business Research
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Intellectual capital (IC) is among the most long-lived topics in managerial literature. More recently, the emergence of the open innovation (OI) paradigm has encouraged the understanding that firms should collaborate with other organizations to leverage their own R&D capabilities. We propose that these two streams of managerial literature should join forces since the OI paradigm could be considered an approach to innovation with foundations in relational capital, facilitated by an appropriate level of human and structural capital. Surprisingly, only a few researchers have put IC and OI into relation. Therefore, this paper has two main goals: providing a theoretical model that synoptically presents how IC and OI overlap and testing the theoretical model by analyzing how firms’ IC affects OI-related performance. We analyze a sample of 3744 Spanish firms. We find that the three IC constructs positively affect OI performance, with relational and human capital subject to diminishing returns.

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Jesús Barrena-Martínez; Livio Cricelli; Esther Ferrándiz; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. Joint forces: Towards an integration of intellectual capital theory and the open innovation paradigm. Journal of Business Research 2019, 112, 261 -270.

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Jesús Barrena-Martínez, Livio Cricelli, Esther Ferrándiz, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi. Joint forces: Towards an integration of intellectual capital theory and the open innovation paradigm. Journal of Business Research. 2019; 112 ():261-270.

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Jesús Barrena-Martínez; Livio Cricelli; Esther Ferrándiz; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. 2019. "Joint forces: Towards an integration of intellectual capital theory and the open innovation paradigm." Journal of Business Research 112, no. : 261-270.

Journal article
Published: 26 July 2019 in Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
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Livio Cricelli; Federico Maria Famulari; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. Searching for the one: Customer relationship management software selection. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 2019, 27, 173 -188.

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Livio Cricelli, Federico Maria Famulari, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi. Searching for the one: Customer relationship management software selection. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. 2019; 27 (3-4):173-188.

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Livio Cricelli; Federico Maria Famulari; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. 2019. "Searching for the one: Customer relationship management software selection." Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 27, no. 3-4: 173-188.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Information Processing & Management
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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Paavo Ritala. In (Big) Data we trust: Value creation in knowledge organizations - Introduction to the special issue. Information Processing & Management 2018, 54, 755 -757.

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Andrea De Mauro, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Paavo Ritala. In (Big) Data we trust: Value creation in knowledge organizations - Introduction to the special issue. Information Processing & Management. 2018; 54 (5):755-757.

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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Paavo Ritala. 2018. "In (Big) Data we trust: Value creation in knowledge organizations - Introduction to the special issue." Information Processing & Management 54, no. 5: 755-757.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2018 in Information Processing & Management
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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Paavo Ritala. Human resources for Big Data professions: A systematic classification of job roles and required skill sets. Information Processing & Management 2018, 54, 807 -817.

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Andrea De Mauro, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Paavo Ritala. Human resources for Big Data professions: A systematic classification of job roles and required skill sets. Information Processing & Management. 2018; 54 (5):807-817.

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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Paavo Ritala. 2018. "Human resources for Big Data professions: A systematic classification of job roles and required skill sets." Information Processing & Management 54, no. 5: 807-817.

Original articles
Published: 08 June 2018 in Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
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A vast amount of studies have shown how firms embracing the open innovation paradigm tend to improve their industrial and economic performance. Somewhat surprisingly, in such established background, few studies attempted to understand whether the open innovation benefits compensate its costs. To fill this gap, this article presents a novel theoretical framework composed of twelve propositions describing the main benefits and costs of inbound and outbound open innovation modes. Such theoretical framework was tested on a sample of 96 small and medium manufacturing enterprises. While most of the identified cost and benefit classes are acknowledged by the majority of the interviewed firms, most interviewees affirmed that their firms did not suffer from costs associated with the not-invented-here syndrome and with the potential loss of competitive advantage. The results of the study have implications for both firms and scholars, which are expected to lead to future researches.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. Benefits and costs of open innovation: the BeCO framework. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 2018, 31, 53 -66.

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Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli. Benefits and costs of open innovation: the BeCO framework. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management. 2018; 31 (1):53-66.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. 2018. "Benefits and costs of open innovation: the BeCO framework." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 31, no. 1: 53-66.

Article
Published: 24 March 2018 in Group Decision and Negotiation
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Open innovation describes a model of innovation that has gathered increasing consensus both in the literature and among practitioners. Studies on open innovation have shown how organizations can benefit from interaction with other subjects to foster their innovation activities. Somewhat surprisingly, although such interactions entail complex negotiations, very few studies have organically analyzed the role of negotiation from an open innovation perspective, although many of them emphasize its importance in successful collaborations. This article aims to analyze the state of the art on the peculiarities and the critical aspects of negotiation for organizations that adopt the open innovation model. Thus, this article presents a systematic literature review that organizes and discusses the main contributions of 70 relevant manuscripts. Such studies have been classified according to three classes (preparation, bargaining, and other) and eleven subclasses. The article has implications for both practitioners and academics. Indeed, the review allows practitioners to identify the literature that is relevant to their own topics of interest, while the conclusions herein provide academics with recommendations for further research on specific aspects of negotiation and open innovation.

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Mario Barchi; Marco Greco. Negotiation in Open Innovation: A Literature Review. Group Decision and Negotiation 2018, 27, 343 -374.

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Mario Barchi, Marco Greco. Negotiation in Open Innovation: A Literature Review. Group Decision and Negotiation. 2018; 27 (3):343-374.

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Mario Barchi; Marco Greco. 2018. "Negotiation in Open Innovation: A Literature Review." Group Decision and Negotiation 27, no. 3: 343-374.

Journal article
Published: 08 January 2018 in Journal of Intellectual Capital
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and performance of public universities in emerging countries in order to identify patterns and provide recommendations that may turn the universities’ IC into development opportunities, in terms of research, innovation, and education. Design/methodology/approach The analysis targeted the whole population of the public universities in the Republic of Colombia. A cluster analysis, based on five performance variables, has been conducted. Then, the IC of the universities pertaining to the three resulting clusters has been compared. Subsequently, for each performance variable, the IC of above-average and below-average universities has been benchmarked. Findings The results of this study show how different aspects of IC are associated with University performance. Among the many, the authors found that universities should achieve a critical mass to obtain outstanding research and innovation results. The findings also identify the particular importance of both students and scholars’ international mobility programs for most of the performance variables. Social implications This study provides a baseline for the assessment of the impact on society of the IC available in the universities of emerging countries. The application may serve as a guide in the choice of public policies, dedicated to the strengthening of the universities’ IC in order to improve their performance. Originality/value This paper proposes an innovative model to analyze the relationship between IC and university performance in emerging countries. The model identifies the association between the IC accrued in the universities and their capability of transferring it to the society under the form of science, innovation, and education.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Leidy Paola Llanes Dueñas. Intellectual capital and university performance in emerging countries. Journal of Intellectual Capital 2018, 19, 71 -95.

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Livio Cricelli, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Leidy Paola Llanes Dueñas. Intellectual capital and university performance in emerging countries. Journal of Intellectual Capital. 2018; 19 (1):71-95.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Leidy Paola Llanes Dueñas. 2018. "Intellectual capital and university performance in emerging countries." Journal of Intellectual Capital 19, no. 1: 71-95.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2017 in Energy Policy
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Marco Greco; Giorgio Locatelli; Stefano Lisi. Open innovation in the power & energy sector: Bringing together government policies, companies’ interests, and academic essence. Energy Policy 2017, 104, 316 -324.

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Marco Greco, Giorgio Locatelli, Stefano Lisi. Open innovation in the power & energy sector: Bringing together government policies, companies’ interests, and academic essence. Energy Policy. 2017; 104 ():316-324.

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Marco Greco; Giorgio Locatelli; Stefano Lisi. 2017. "Open innovation in the power & energy sector: Bringing together government policies, companies’ interests, and academic essence." Energy Policy 104, no. : 316-324.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2017 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. Hitting the nail on the head: Exploring the relationship between public subsidies and open innovation efficiency. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2017, 118, 213 -225.

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Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli. Hitting the nail on the head: Exploring the relationship between public subsidies and open innovation efficiency. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2017; 118 ():213-225.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. 2017. "Hitting the nail on the head: Exploring the relationship between public subsidies and open innovation efficiency." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 118, no. : 213-225.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2017 in International Journal of Project Management
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Despite the relevance of corruption in project selection, planning and delivery, the project management literature pays little attention to this crucial phenomenon. This paper sets the background to foster the discussion concerning how to select, plan and deliver infrastructure in corrupt project contexts. It presents the different types of corruptions and the characteristics of projects that are more likely to suffer from it. Corruption is particularly relevant for large and uncommon projects where the public sector acts as client/owner or even as the main contractor. Megaprojects are “large unique projects” where public actors play a key role and are very likely to be affected by corruption. Corruption worsens both cost and time performance, and the benefits delivered. This paper leverages the institutional theory to introduce the concept of “corrupt project context” and, using the case study of the Italian high-speed railways, shows the impact of a corrupt context on megaprojects

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Giorgio Locatelli; Giacomo Mariani; Tristano Sainati; Marco Greco. Corruption in public projects and megaprojects: There is an elephant in the room! International Journal of Project Management 2017, 35, 252 -268.

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Giorgio Locatelli, Giacomo Mariani, Tristano Sainati, Marco Greco. Corruption in public projects and megaprojects: There is an elephant in the room! International Journal of Project Management. 2017; 35 (3):252-268.

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Giorgio Locatelli; Giacomo Mariani; Tristano Sainati; Marco Greco. 2017. "Corruption in public projects and megaprojects: There is an elephant in the room!" International Journal of Project Management 35, no. 3: 252-268.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2016 in European Management Journal
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The open innovation (OI) paradigm describes how firms innovate by interacting with other organizations. Several authors found that specific OI strategies have a positive effect on economic and industrial innovation performance. Nevertheless, over-search and over-collaboration phenomena might reduce the OI marginal returns when a firm resorts to additional external innovation partners. This article hypothesizes that the variety of external innovation channels (search breadth) used by a firm, the extent to which a firm draws deeply from them (search depth) and the extent to which a firm collaborates through different external channels (coupled OI) are curvilinearly related with innovation performance. The empirical models are estimated using 84,919 firms from Eurostat's Community Innovation Survey, which was conducted in 2008 across European countries. The results suggest that search breadth is curvilinearly related with all the measures of innovation performance, whereas search depth is not subject to diminishing marginal returns in most cases. Furthermore, this article shows that coupled OI is curvilinearly related with the development and commercialization of radically new products. The findings of this study make several contributions both in a practical perspective, showing how managers can put into practice different OI strategies to influence innovation performance, and in a theoretical perspective, suggesting a number of recommendations for future research.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. An analysis of the open innovation effect on firm performance. European Management Journal 2016, 34, 501 -516.

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Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli. An analysis of the open innovation effect on firm performance. European Management Journal. 2016; 34 (5):501-516.

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Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli. 2016. "An analysis of the open innovation effect on firm performance." European Management Journal 34, no. 5: 501-516.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in Journal of Business Research
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Cesare Rossi; Livio Cricelli; Michele Grimaldi; Marco Greco. The strategic assessment of intellectual capital assets: An application within Terradue Srl. Journal of Business Research 2016, 69, 1598 -1603.

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Cesare Rossi, Livio Cricelli, Michele Grimaldi, Marco Greco. The strategic assessment of intellectual capital assets: An application within Terradue Srl. Journal of Business Research. 2016; 69 (5):1598-1603.

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Cesare Rossi; Livio Cricelli; Michele Grimaldi; Marco Greco. 2016. "The strategic assessment of intellectual capital assets: An application within Terradue Srl." Journal of Business Research 69, no. 5: 1598-1603.

Case report
Published: 11 April 2016 in Journal of Intellectual Capital
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Purpose – Despite the flourishing literature on intellectual capital (IC), few studies explored its features in the perspective of family firms, and even fewer focussed on small family firms (SFFs). The purpose of this paper is to analyze how managers and senior employees in SFFs perceive the benefits and costs of intellectual capital assets (ICAs) and provides many insights for future researches. Design/methodology/approach – Taking the lead from the constructivist epistemology, this instrumental study describes the implementation of a framework for the assessment of ICAs into four SFFs in order to develop general theoretical principles. Findings – Among the findings, it stands out that most SFFs in the sample especially rely on their internal processes and on their human resources’ knowledge and competences. Furthermore, the authors found much internal disagreement with respect to the expected costs of investing on ICAs, especially within firms operating in more turbulent markets. Research limitations/implications – Being referred to a multiple case study, the results may not be generalized to other organizations. Nevertheless, they are useful to build theory, either by verification of falsification, and to encourage their future testing in empirical papers. Practical implications – The implementation of the framework allows identifying internal disagreement with respect to the ICAs’ costs and benefits and exploring their causes. Furthermore, it suggests which should be the ICAs deserving primary attention in order to have the best impact on value creation. Originality/value – The paper investigates IC in SFFs, thus contributing to fill a remarkable gap in IC literature.

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Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco. Perceived benefits and costs of intellectual capital in small family firms. Journal of Intellectual Capital 2016, 17, 351 -372.

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Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli, Marco Greco. Perceived benefits and costs of intellectual capital in small family firms. Journal of Intellectual Capital. 2016; 17 (2):351-372.

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Michele Grimaldi; Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco. 2016. "Perceived benefits and costs of intellectual capital in small family firms." Journal of Intellectual Capital 17, no. 2: 351-372.

E literature review
Published: 04 April 2016 in Library Review
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the most prominent research areas connected with “Big Data” and propose a thorough definition of the term. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have analysed a conspicuous corpus of industry and academia articles linked with Big Data to find commonalities among the topics they treated. The authors have also compiled a survey of existing definitions with a view of generating a more solid one that encompasses most of the work happening in the field. Findings – The main themes of Big Data are: information, technology, methods and impact. The authors propose a new definition for the term that reads as follows: “Big Data is the Information asset characterized by such a High Volume, Velocity and Variety to require specific Technology and Analytical Methods for its transformation into Value.” Practical implications – The formal definition that is proposed can enable a more coherent development of the concept of Big Data, as it solely relies on the essential strands of current state-of-the-art and is coherent with the most popular definitions currently used. Originality/value – This is among the first structured attempts of building a convincing definition of Big Data. It also contains an original exploration of the topic in connection with library management.

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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. A formal definition of Big Data based on its essential features. Library Review 2016, 65, 122 -135.

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Andrea De Mauro, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi. A formal definition of Big Data based on its essential features. Library Review. 2016; 65 (3):122-135.

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Andrea De Mauro; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. 2016. "A formal definition of Big Data based on its essential features." Library Review 65, no. 3: 122-135.

Journal article
Published: 09 March 2016 in International Journal of Innovation Management
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Many authors showed the benefits of open innovation (OI) to firms, consequently encouraging managers to adopt the OI paradigm to improve innovation performance. Nevertheless, whether firms have accepted such exhortations or not is almost empirically unexplored. The frequent claim that firms are increasingly adopting the OI paradigm is mostly anecdotal. This paper presents a large-scale analysis of firms’ OI adoption by means of four waves of the community innovation survey, including 275,697 questionnaires. The analysis focuses on the trends in the use of inbound (internal use of external knowledge) and coupled (collaboration with partners) OI approaches. The results confirm that the share of firms adopting the OI paradigm has increased, both in terms of inbound and coupled OI actions. Similarly, firms have intensified the use of the inbound OI mode, whereas they have not intensified the use of collaborations. However, the analyses of different measures of OI show that in most cases the positive trends have not been monotonic, nor steep as they are anecdotally considered to be.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. ASSESSING THE OPEN INNOVATION TRENDS BY MEANS OF THE EUROSTAT COMMUNITY INNOVATION SURVEY. International Journal of Innovation Management 2016, 20, 1 .

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Livio Cricelli, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi. ASSESSING THE OPEN INNOVATION TRENDS BY MEANS OF THE EUROSTAT COMMUNITY INNOVATION SURVEY. International Journal of Innovation Management. 2016; 20 (3):1.

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Livio Cricelli; Marco Greco; Michele Grimaldi. 2016. "ASSESSING THE OPEN INNOVATION TRENDS BY MEANS OF THE EUROSTAT COMMUNITY INNOVATION SURVEY." International Journal of Innovation Management 20, no. 3: 1.