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"Director tenure and contribution to board task performance: A time and contingency perspective"

Director tenure is a topic of great interest in the corporate governance debate. Despite the burgeoning interest, there is lack of consensus on the mechanisms shaping directors' contributions over time. Natalie Elms from Queensland University of Technology and Amedeo Pugliese from the Department of

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"Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization"

The fast-changing scenario related to the COVID-19 pandemic calls for firms to rapidly redefine and innovate their strategies to sustain their businesses, with research emphasizing the key roles of digital technologies and servitization.   In this paper, Marco Bettiol, Mauro Capestro and Eleonora Di

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"Patent portfolios and firms’ technological choices"

In many industrial sectors, firms amass large patent portfolios to reinforce their bargaining position with competitors.In a context where patents have a pure strategic nature, Stefano Comino from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine and Fabio M. Manenti from the

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"Patent portfolios and firms’ technological choices"

In many industrial sectors, firms amass large patent portfolios to reinforce their bargaining position with competitors.In a context where patents have a pure strategic nature, Stefano Comino from the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Udine and Fabio M. Manenti from the

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"The technological acquisitions paradox in the beauty industry"

In this paper, Silvia Rita Sedita, Fiorenza Belussi and Ivan De Noni from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Roberta Apa from the University of Milan, offer an original perspective of analysis on how technological acquisitions and knowledge recombination shape

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