Alberto Ferraris

TL;DR: The findings of this paper show that firms that developed more BDA capabilities than others, both technological and managerial, increased their performances and that KM orientation plays a significant role in amplifying the effect of Bda capabilities.

TL;DR: Using structural equations modeling with data collected from 43 IoT smart city project alliances in Italy, evidence is found that MNEs need to develop knowledge management capabilities combined with ICT capabilities if they want to obtain greater ambidexterity performance at the project portfolio level.

TL;DR: It is argued that the firms which develop and possess superior KM capabilities have the ability to better manage external knowledge and combine it with the internal one, which means that subsidiaries with superior KM capability are more effective in using external R&D, augmenting the magnitude of their external sources of knowledge and, consequently, improving their innovative performance.

TL;DR: An empirical testing on IBM Smart Cities projects was applied to demonstrate that the combination between the use of IoT and the implementation of the Open Innovation model within smart cities which has been changed the development of urban areas and effected firms’ innovativeness.

TL;DR: It is found that organizational BDA capabilities affect a firm's ambidexterity and agility, which, in turn, affect its performance.