Research

Articles in Referred Journals

Reallocation and productivity during the Great Recession: evidence from French manufacturing firms (with G. Domini), Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming, available online 17 January 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtab075 [link]

Making one’s own way: jumping ahead in the capability space and exporting among Indian firms, (with M. Grazzi and N. Mathew), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, forthcoming, available online 6 February 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00718-z [link]

Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics (with G. Domini, M. Grazzi and T. Treibich), Research Policy, forthcoming, available online 23 October 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104137 [link] [latest draft]

Long-term firm growth: an empirical analysis of US manufacturers 1959–2015 (with G. Dosi, M. Grazzi, G.Pisano and F.Tamagni), Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(2), 309-332, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz044 [link]

Persistent high-growth firms in China’s manufacturing (with F. Tamagni and X. Yu), Small Business Economics, 52(3), 573-594, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9973-4) [link]

Small, young, and exporters: New evidence on the determinants of firm growth (with M. Grazzi), Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28(1), 125-152, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s00191-017-0523-7 [link]

What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification (with G.Dosi and M. Grazzi), Small Business Economics, 48(2), 413-429, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9783-0 [link]

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms (with G. Dosi and M. Grazzi), Research Policy, 44(10), 1795-1814, 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.05.012 [link]

Productivity, market selection and corporate growth: comparative evidence across US and Europe (with G. Dosi, E. Pugliese and F. Tamagni), Small Business Economics, 45(3), 643-672, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9655-z [link]

The spinning jenny and the guillotine: technology diffusion at the time of revolutions (with U.M. Gragnolati and E. Pugliese), Cliometrica, 8(1), 5-26, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s11698-012-0092-9 [link]

The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal (with U.M. Gragnolati and E. Pugliese), Journal of Economic History, 71(2), 455-460, 2011. DOI: 10.1017/S0022050711001604 [link]

Toward Formal Representations of Search Processes and Routines in Organizational Problem Solving. An Assesment of The State-of-the-Art (with G. Dosi, M. Faillo and L. Marengo), Seoul Journal of Economics, 24(3), 247-286, 2011. [link]

Articles in Refereed Proceedings and Collections

The formalization of organizational capabilities and learning: results and challenges (with G. Dosi, M. Faillo, V. Cecchini Manara and L. Marengo), in ``The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities'', edited by David J. Teece and Sohvi Leih, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199678914. Forthcoming.

Firm growth, export behavior, and the age-size profile: evidence from the Italian manufacturing sector (with M. Grazzi), in ``Oligopoly, Institutions, and Firms' Performance'', edited by Luciano Fanti, Pisa University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-886741-8121.

Working papers

International Patent Protection and Trade: Transaction-Level Evidence (with G. de Rassenfosse, M. Grazzi and G. Pellegrino), LEM working paper 2020/07

Threats and opportunities in the digital era: automation spikes and employment dynamics (with G. Domini, M. Grazzi, T. Treibich), LEM working paper 2019/22 [Latest draft here]

Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959-2015 (with G. Dosi, M. Grazzi, G. Pisano, F. Tamagni), LEM working paper 2019/13

Reallocation and productivity during the Great Recession: evidence from French manufacturing firms (with Giacomo Domini), LEM working paper 2018/11.

Efficiency, innovation, and imported inputs: determinants of export performance among Indian manufacturing firms (with M. Grazzi and N. Mathew), LEM working paper 2017/09

The formalization of organizational capabilities and learning: results and challenges (with G. Dosi, M. Faillo, V. Cecchini Manara and L. Marengo), LEM working paper 2017/08

Persistent high-growth firms in China’s manufacturing (with F. Tamagni and X. Yu), LEM working paper 2017/03

Small, young, and exporters: New evidence on the determinants of firm growth (with M. Grazzi), LEM working paper 2016/07

What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification (with G. Dosi and M. Grazzi), LEM working paper 2015/05.

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: from countries and sectors to firms (with G. Dosi and M. Grazzi). LEM working paper 2014/10. New version.

Productivity, market selection and corporate growth: comparative evidence across US and Europe (with G. Dosi, E. Pugliese and F. Tamagni), LEM working paper 2013/15.

The spinning jenny and the guillotine: technology diffusion at the time of revolutions (with U.M. Gragnolati and E. Pugliese), LEM working paper 2011/19.

Toward Formal Representations of Search Processes and Routines in Organizational Problem Solving. An Assesment of The State-of-the-Art (with G. Dosi, M. Faillo and L. Marengo), LEM working paper 2011/04.

The Spinning Jenny and the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal (with U.M. Gragnolati and E. Pugliese), LEM working paper 2010/09.