My research focuses on an overarching research question: How does the knowledge as well as the type of decision making approach employed by firms or individuals shape their choices and performance ?
I am particularly interested in the role of theories and abstract knowledge.
I have explored this question with conceptual as well as mixed-methods empirical research, based on observational studies, natural, lab, and field experiments, and qualitative analysis.
I have focused on four main areas:
Decision-Making in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This research stream has been funded with a grant from the UK Government Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (Business Basics Grant, 2018, £387,000)
Publications
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Camuffo, A., Gambardella, A., Messinese, D., Novelli, E., Paolucci, E., Spina, C. (authors listed in alphabetical order). 2024. A scientific approach to innovation management: Evidence from four randomized control trials, Strategic Management Journal
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Felin, T, Gambardella, A., Novelli, E., Zenger, T. 2024. A Scientific method for startups. Journal of Management.
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Novelli, E., Spina, C. (authors listed in alphabetical order) When innovators act like scientists: Strategic choice commitment, uncertainty and performance, INSEAD Working Paper
▸ SMS 2021 Best Paper Prize
▸ DRUID 2021 Best Paper Prize
▸ AOM 2021 STR distinguished paper award
in knowledge, innovation and human capital
▸ AOM 2021 Best Paper Proceedings
▸2022 Kauffman Best Paper Awards
in Entrepreneurial Cognition Finalist
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Coali, A., Gambardella, A., Novelli, E. Scientific decision making and project selection
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Gagliardi, L., Novelli, E. Group membership and decision making in the pursuit of innovative ideas
Knowledge, Innovation, and Value Appropriation
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Ahuja, G., Lampert, C., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2013. The second face of appropriability: Generative appropriability and its determinants, Academy of Management Review (ABS 4*, FT50)
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Novelli, E. 2015. An examination of the antecedents and implications of patent scope, Research Policy (ABS 4*, FT50)
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Heaton, S., Gambardella, A., Novelli, E., Teece, D.J. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2020. Profiting from enabling technologies?, Strategy Science
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Ahuja, G., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2011. Knowledge structures and innovation: Useful abstractions, lessons learnt and unanswered questions. In Mark Easterby-Smith, Marjorie A. Lyles The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, Second Edition, Wiley – Blackwell
Working papers
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Di Stefano, G., Novelli, E, Hetu, M. (first two authors listed in alphabetical order). 2020. Burying the hatchet? Colocation, competition and the performance benefits of diversity
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Hueller, F., Novelli, E., Aversa, P. Benefiting from a shock: innovation in connectedness and architectural advantage in platform-based ecosystems
Vertical and Horizontal Boundaries of Innovative Firms
This research stream has been funded with a grant from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (Future Research Leaders Grant, 2012, £212,000)
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Conti, R., Gambardella, A., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2019. Specializing in generality: Firms strategy when intermediate markets work, Organization Science (ABS 4*, FT50)
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Conti, R., Gambardella, A., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2019. Specializing in general purpose technologies as a long-term strategy for firms, Industrial and Corporate Change (ABS 3)
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Ahuja, G., Novelli E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2017. Activity overinvestment: The case of R&D, Journal of Management, Special Issue on Resource Allocation (ABS 4*, FT50)
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Ahuja, G., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2013. Innovation strategies. In Teece D.J., Augier M., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, Palgrave
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Ahuja, G., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2013. M&A and innovation. In Dodgson M., Gann, D., Phillips N. The Handbook of Innovation Management, Oxford University Press
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Ahuja, G., Novelli E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) The perils of complexity: Change in product interdependencies and firm performance
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Innovation and Firm Relationships with Stakeholders
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Conti, R., Novelli, E. (authors listed in alphabetical order) 2022. Not all technologies are created equal for stakeholders: Firm stakeholder orientation and investments in technology generality. Research Policy (ABS 4*, FT50)
Work in progress:
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Ebrahim, M., Gaonkar, S., Kapoor, R., Lavie, D., Novelli, E., Winston Smith, S. (authors listed in alphabetical order) Innovation and cooperation in ecosystems in the face of distrust: The implication of the Cambridge Analytica scandal for Facebook's partners
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