Management Decision: Volume 58 Issue 9

Guest editorial

Giustina Secundo, Luca Simeone, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Giovanni Schiuma

Design sprint for SMEs: an organizational taxonomy based on configuration theory

Stefano Magistretti, Claudio Dell'Era, Nicola Doppio

Design approaches to innovation are booming in both the academic and practitioner worlds. Tech giants are proposing different methodologies to develop technological innovation…

Design-based learning to enhance absorptive capacity for open innovation: the case of 3D Tune-In

Luca Simeone, Giustina Secundo, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Giovanni Schiuma

This paper explores how learning processes supported by intensive use of design can favour absorptive capacity in open innovation contexts characterised by the interaction of a…

Adopting a knowledge translation approach in healthcare co-production. A case study

Francesca Dal Mas, Helena Biancuzzi, Maurizio Massaro, Luca Miceli

The paper aims to contribute to the debate concerning the use of knowledge translation for implementing co-production processes in the healthcare sector. The study investigates a…

Understanding knowledge translation in university–industry research projects: a case analysis in the automotive sector

Paolo Canonico, Ernesto De Nito, Vincenza Esposito, Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Gianluigi Mangia

In this paper, we depart from extant conceptualisations of knowledge translation mechanisms to examine projects as a way to achieve effective knowledge transfer. Our empirical…

Knowledge transfer and translation in cultural ecosystems

Renata Paola Dameri, Paola Demartini

This paper concerns the pivotal role that entrepreneurial universities can play in developing knowledge transfer and translation processes tailored to the cultural ecosystem.

Knowledge transfer in the football industry: a sectorial analysis of factors and determinants

Rosa Lombardi, Raffaele Trequattrini, Benedetta Cuozzo, Paola Paoloni

Over recent decades, knowledge transfer processes and knowledge-intensive organizations have been increasingly investigated from several perspectives. Knowledge translation…

Knowledge translation in project portfolio decision-making: the role of organizational alignment and information support system in selecting innovative ideas

Maria Carmela Annosi, Lucia Marchegiani, Francesca Vicentini

The present study aims to describe the micro-dynamics of decision-making that refer to knowledge translation pursued by organizational actors to see how they affect the travel of…

Back to the future of Knowledge Management Systems off the beaten paths

Roberto Cerchione, Piera Centobelli, Pierluigi Zerbino, Amitabh Anand

The evolution of Knowledge-Management (KM)-related literature has highlighted that Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) have undergone massive changes in collaborative…

Does knowledge translation drive spin-offs away from the “valley of death”? A nonparametric analysis to support a banking perspective

Valeria Stefanelli, Vittorio Boscia, Pierluigi Toma

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test if the interaction between universities and spin-offs, as proxy of knowledge translation (KT), which is based in particular on…

Translational mechanisms in business model design: introducing the continuous validation framework

Leonardo Corbo, Shadi Mahassel, Alberto Ferraris

This paper aims at proposing knowledge translation as an element of business model design that can support entrepreneurs in achieving alignment and collaboration between…

The sourcing for collaborative knowledge translation in distributed R&D processes: a cross-regional study

Luana Serino, Armando Papa, Francesco Campanella, Leonardo Di Gioia

We explore the impact of a specific knowledge management framework on the quality of innovation, the geographic distribution of R&D and the cross-regional integration. We use…

External knowledge search and firms’ incremental innovation capability: the joint moderating effect of technological proximity and network embeddedness

Xiaoxiao Shi, Zuolong Zheng, Qingpu Zhang, Huakang Liang

This paper aims to analyze the extent to which the influence of external knowledge search activities on firms’ incremental innovation capability, and the moderating roles of the…