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Minola, T., Hahn, D., Criaco, G., Pittino, D. & Visintin, F. (2025). Are non-economic goals and financial performance friends or foes in hybrid ventures?: A duality perspective on academic spin-offs. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
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2025 (English)In: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, ISSN 1932-4391, E-ISSN 1932-443XArticle in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Research Summary: This study draws on the behavioral theory of the firm and a duality perspective to investigate the impact of founders' focus on academic goals on the financial performance of academic spin-offs (ASOs)—a specific type of hybrid venture. We theorize that such relationship follows an inverse U-shaped curve and is moderated by the degree of academic ownership. These hypotheses are tested using a sample of 179 Italian ASOs. Our findings indicate that when academic ownership is low, the relationship displays an inverted U-shape. Moreover, as academic ownership increases, the relationship flattens and eventually shifts to a U-shape. These results challenge the prevailing notion of inherent conflicts between economic and non-economic logics in hybrid ventures, demonstrating when focusing on non-economic (e.g., academic) goals enhances financial outcomes. Managerial Summary: Academic spin-offs (ASOs) play a pivotal role in science commercialization and often pursue academic goals due to their academic origins. However, the extent to which founders' focus on academic goals benefits or hinders ASOs' financial performance has remained largely underexamined. In this study of 179 Italian ASOs, we investigate the relationship between a focus on academic goals and firm performance. Our findings reveal that at lower levels of academic ownership, a moderate focus on academic goals is optimal for ASOs' financial performance. Conversely, at higher levels of academic ownership, either a low or high focus on academic goals proves optimal for financial performance. These insights can help practitioners improve ASO performance by aligning goal and ownership structures.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2025
Keywords
academic spin-off, behavioral theory of the firm, duality, hybrid organization, ownership structure
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-67148 (URN)10.1002/sej.1529 (DOI)2-s2.0-85215536872 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;996657 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;996657 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;996657 (OAI)
Available from: 2025-01-29 Created: 2025-01-29 Last updated: 2025-01-29
Chirico, F., Ireland, R. D., Pittino, D. & Sanchez-Famoso, V. (2025). Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?. Research Policy, 54(1), Article ID 105106.
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2025 (English)In: Research Policy, ISSN 0048-7333, E-ISSN 1873-7625, Vol. 54, no 1, article id 105106Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We draw from resource orchestration and socioemotional wealth (SEW) arguments to examine radical innovation in multifamily firms. We theorize that the weak coordination mechanism associated with multifamily ownership has a negative effect on the positive SEW-radical innovation relationship. Additionally, we argue that low generational involvement – the number of family generations involved simultaneously in the family firm's top management team – mitigates the negative moderating effect of multifamily ownership. Low generational involvement is a mobilizing mechanism that ensures that the family firm uses its SEW to produce radical innovation. We use a sample of Spanish firms to test our expectations. Our results show that firms realize the positive effect of SEW on radical innovation in concert with the leadership governance mechanism of multifamily ownership and low generational involvement. These results are important in that evidence suggests that radical innovation plays a strong role in family firms' long-term survival, success, and renewal. We conclude our paper with a discussion of the study's theoretical contributions and opportunities for future research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2025
Keywords
Radical innovation, Strategic leadership, Resource orchestration, Socioemotional wealth, Multifamily ownership, Generational involvement
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66214 (URN)10.1016/j.respol.2024.105106 (DOI)001316396200001 ()2-s2.0-85203662014 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;66214 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;66214 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;66214 (OAI)
Funder
Australian Research Council
Note

This article forms part of the Special Issue on Strategic Leadership & Radical Innovation.

Available from: 2024-09-16 Created: 2024-09-16 Last updated: 2024-10-04Bibliographically approved
Engström, A., Pittino, D., Mohlin, A., Johansson, A. & Edh Mirzaei, N. (2024). Artificial intelligence and work transformations: integrating sensemaking and workplace learning perspectives. Information Technology and People, 37(7), 2441-2461
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2024 (English)In: Information Technology and People, ISSN 0959-3845, E-ISSN 1758-5813, Vol. 37, no 7, p. 2441-2461Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to explore the process of initial sensemaking that organizational members activate when they reflect on AI adoption in their work settings, and how the perceived features of AI technologies trigger sensemaking processes which in turn have the potential to influence workplace learning modes and trajectories.

Design/methodology/approach

We adopted an explorative qualitative and interactive approach to capture free fantasies and imaginative ideas of AI among people within the industry. We adopt a conceptual perspective that combines theories on initial sensemaking and workplace learning as a theoretical lens to analyze data collected during 23 focus groups held at four large Swedish manufacturing companies. The data were analyzed using the Gioia method.

Findings

Two aggregated dimensions were defined and led to the development of an integrated conceptualization of the initial sensemaking of AI technology adoption. Specifically, sensemaking triggered by abstract features of AI technology mainly pointed to an exploitative learning path. Sensemaking triggered by concrete features of the technology mainly pointed to explorative paths, where socio-technical processes appear to be crucial in the process of AI adoption.

Originality/value

This is one of the first studies that attempts to explore and conceptualize how organizations make sense of prospective workplace learning in the context of AI adoption.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2024
Keywords
Action research, Sensemaking, Socio-technical theory, Organizational learning, Collaboration, Organizational change, Management practices
National Category
Business Administration Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-65677 (URN)10.1108/ITP-01-2023-0048 (DOI)001266970800001 ()2-s2.0-85198380394 (Scopus ID)HOA;;962879 (Local ID)HOA;;962879 (Archive number)HOA;;962879 (OAI)
Projects
AFAIR (No: 20200223)
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 20200223
Available from: 2024-07-16 Created: 2024-07-16 Last updated: 2024-12-31Bibliographically approved
Baù, M., Karlsson, J., Haag, K., Pittino, D. & Chirico, F. (2024). Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(5-6), 722-744
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2024 (English)In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, ISSN 0898-5626, E-ISSN 1464-5114, Vol. 36, no 5-6, p. 722-744Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this study, we seek to understand firm behaviour during times of crisis, with a particular focus on family firms in different contexts. We theorize that family control mitigates (i.e. negatively moderates) the relationship between economic crisis and the layoff of employees, resulting in a higher propensity of family firms to retain their employees during a crisis compared to their nonfamily counterparts. Furthermore, taking a closer look at family firms, based on their location, we argue that family firms in rural regions are more likely to adopt measures leading to involuntary job turnover than family firms in urban areas due to a higher sensitivity to the loss of socioemotional wealth following a business closure. Relying on a panel dataset of Swedish private firms active in the period 2004-2012, our study contributes to a better understanding of family firms as employers in different contexts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
Family firms, socioemotional wealth, local embeddedness, rural environment, economic crisis, employee layoff
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63483 (URN)10.1080/08985626.2024.2309160 (DOI)001153476100001 ()2-s2.0-85183925567 (Scopus ID)HOA;;935478 (Local ID)HOA;;935478 (Archive number)HOA;;935478 (OAI)
Available from: 2024-02-05 Created: 2024-02-05 Last updated: 2025-01-12Bibliographically approved
Pittino, D. (2024). Primogeniture. In: C. Howorth and A. D. Cruz (Ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business: (pp. 341-342). Edward Elgar Publishing
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2024 (English)In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Family Business / [ed] C. Howorth and A. D. Cruz, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, p. 341-342Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Primogeniture refers to the preference in inheriting the business given to the male firstborn child. Primogeniture exempts the incumbent to make a choice among several potential successors and strengthens certain features of the family socioemotional wealth invested in the firm. In addition, the rule of primogeniture may also prevent the fragmentation of ownership across generations, which could create issues in decision making and commitment to the firm by different family branches. However, the application of the male preference primogeniture rule has major drawbacks, the most relevant ones being: (i) the implicit exclusion of daughters from the succession and (ii) the lower importance of competence-based successors’ assessment. The primogeniture principle is increasingly challenged by the evolution in society. In particular, the awareness of daughters’ issues in succession has substantially grown in the recent decades, along with the change in professional and family roles of women in society.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-65446 (URN)10.4337/9781800888722 (DOI)2-s2.0-85195902069 (Scopus ID)9781800888715 (ISBN)9781800888722 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-06-27 Created: 2024-06-27 Last updated: 2024-06-27Bibliographically approved
Criaco, G., Hahn, D., Minola, T. & Pittino, D. (2024). The role of non-economic goals in academic spin-offs. Journal of Technology Transfer
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2024 (English)In: Journal of Technology Transfer, ISSN 0892-9912, E-ISSN 1573-7047Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Acting as a crucial link between academia and the business world, Academic Spin-Offs (ASOs) play a key role in translating innovative technologies from academic discoveries into commercial applications. Despite their potential for technological advancements, ASOs often struggle with challenges in financial performance and growth. Traditional explanations attribute these challenges to a lack of commercial resources and competencies. However, since ASOs often demonstrate prolonged survival, such explanations may not fully explain the paradox in ASOs' outcomes. This paper offers a novel perspective, highlighting how non-economic goals, deeply ingrained in the academic context in which ASOs originate, shape their behavior and outcomes. These goals, related to the dimensions of control, identity, and emotions, go beyond financial gains, reflecting concerns that are specific to the academic environment. Integrating the organizational goals literature with insights from academic entrepreneurship research, we present a conceptual model describing the origins and nature of these goals and explain how they can help shedding light on some paradoxes in ASOs' development, growth, and performance events. Our model bears significant implications for the academic entrepreneurship literature and related public policy.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2024
Keywords
Academic entrepreneurship, Academic spin-offs, Non-economic goals, Outcomes
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-66307 (URN)10.1007/s10961-024-10111-8 (DOI)001314805100001 ()2-s2.0-85204301203 (Scopus ID);intsam;975141 (Local ID);intsam;975141 (Archive number);intsam;975141 (OAI)
Available from: 2024-09-30 Created: 2024-09-30 Last updated: 2024-09-30
D'Allura, G. M., Woolum, A. H., Foulk, T. A., Erez, A. & Pittino, D. (2023). Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses. The Journal of Family Business Strategy, 14(2), Article ID 100537.
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2023 (English)In: The Journal of Family Business Strategy, ISSN 1877-8585, E-ISSN 1877-8593, Vol. 14, no 2, article id 100537Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Over the past decades the field of family business has witnessed a surge in publications and experienced meaningful changes that have served to increase its legitimacy and establish the field as an independent area of academic inquiry. Along with these advancements, scholars have called for experimental research designs that can reveal the influence of individual-level, microfoundational phenomena underlying macro-level family business phenomena. Given the challenge of conducting such studies, the event-sampling method with experimental design (ESME) approach is highlighted as a new opportunity for family business scholars to further enrich their methodological toolbox. Fundamentally, the ESME approach is a longitudinal, repeated-sampling method with experimental design that provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate the effects of various micro-level phenomena within the family business. By facilitating the incorporation of familial variables and processual elements in family business research, the ESME approach can account for the longitudinal and dynamic interplay of family and family business phenomena. Overall, ESME is a method with the potential to help researchers answer many of the “how” questions that remain unanswered in the field of family business. A description of ESME is offered, relevant challenges and opportunities in family business research are identified, and best practices for ESME are shared to support the work of family business scholars.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2023
Keywords
ESME, Experimental design, Family, Family dynamic, Longitudinal investigation, Microfoundations
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-59352 (URN)10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100537 (DOI)001027392700001 ()2-s2.0-85145292607 (Scopus ID);intsam;1725229 (Local ID);intsam;1725229 (Archive number);intsam;1725229 (OAI)
Available from: 2023-01-10 Created: 2023-01-10 Last updated: 2023-08-18Bibliographically approved
Mehraein, V., Visintin, F. & Pittino, D. (2023). The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation. International journal of management reviews (Print), 25(4), 740-767
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2023 (English)In: International journal of management reviews (Print), ISSN 1460-8545, E-ISSN 1468-2370, Vol. 25, no 4, p. 740-767Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It is believed that workplace creativity and innovation are fostered by positive leader behaviours and positive workplace relationships and hindered by the opposite. However, some challenge this view, arguing that creativity and innovation can actually be fostered when employees experience what is increasingly referred to as the dark side of leadership and workplace mistreatment. Research on this area is sparse, contradictory and overly confusing. We begin by defining the dark side of leadership and then provide a comprehensive systematic review of 145 empirical studies on the topic. We review research on a broad range of constructs related to leadership and workplace mistreatment, such as abusive supervision, authoritarian leadership, destructive leadership, narcissistic leadership and relationship conflict. Our review reports the main effects, summarizes the results of the mediating and moderating variables, and highlights methodological shortcomings of the past literature. On this basis, several recommendations are made to advance this field of research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2023
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-60052 (URN)10.1111/ijmr.12334 (DOI)000947002600001 ()2-s2.0-85150662955 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;873390 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;873390 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;873390 (OAI)
Available from: 2023-04-03 Created: 2023-04-03 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved
Caccamo, M., Pittino, D. & Tell, F. (2022). Boundary objects, knowledge integration, and innovation management: A systematic review of the literature. Technovation, 122, Article ID 102645.
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2022 (English)In: Technovation, ISSN 0166-4972, E-ISSN 1879-2383, Vol. 122, article id 102645Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Enabling collaboration across disciplines, business functions, departments, organizations, and industries is a critical innovation management challenge. Successful innovation depends on effective knowledge integration among diverse actors. The concept of boundary objects to achieve knowledge integration has gained increasing popularity within innovation management. Despite the growing relevance, existing literature reviews about boundary objects are sparse. This review examines how boundary objects enable knowledge integration through a systematic analysis. An integrating framework of the scholarship on boundary objects links existing contributions to key theoretical perspectives on the study of boundary spanning for knowledge integration. Relevant publications are identified through a systematic literature review and discussed according to three themes: information processing, cognitive, and learning perspective on knowledge integration. Potential contributions to broader theorizing are highlighted in relation to three innovation settings: cross-functional collaboration, open innovation, and staged product development processes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2022
Keywords
Boundary objects, Business functions, Business industry, Business organizations, Innovation management, Knowledge innovation, Knowledge integration, Management challenges, Systematic literature review, Systematic Review, Integration
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-58774 (URN)10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102645 (DOI)000974559000001 ()2-s2.0-85140085879 (Scopus ID)HOA;;840129 (Local ID)HOA;;840129 (Archive number)HOA;;840129 (OAI)
Available from: 2022-11-02 Created: 2022-11-02 Last updated: 2023-05-15Bibliographically approved
Flamini, G., Pittino, D. & Visintin, F. (2022). Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs. The Journal of Family Business Strategy, 13(2), Article ID 100468.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs
2022 (English)In: The Journal of Family Business Strategy, ISSN 1877-8585, E-ISSN 1877-8593, Vol. 13, no 2, article id 100468Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In the present study we argue that a more fine-grained perspective, taking into account different situations of family members’ involvement and the actual implementation of HRM practices and policies, is needed to provide an accurate picture of family firms as employers. Our study is carried out on a unique sample of 849 family firms in Italy and focuses on the conditions and consequences of adopting mutuality-promoting HRM practices in the family business context.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2022
Keywords
Family involvement, Family leadership, HRM, Labor productivity, Mutual gains, Stewardshipl
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-55089 (URN)10.1016/j.jfbs.2021.100468 (DOI)000835752600005 ()2-s2.0-85118591755 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2021-11-16 Created: 2021-11-16 Last updated: 2022-08-22Bibliographically approved
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