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LARA AGOSTINI

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali - DTG

Address

STRADELLA SAN NICOLA, 3 - VICENZA

Telephone

0444998732

E-mail

lara.agostini@unipd.it

Lara Agostini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) at the University of Padua. She is head of the following courses:
- New Product Development Management in the Master’s Degree in Management Engineering (DTG, Unipd);
- Business Management and Product Development in the Master’s Degree in Product Innovation Engineering (DTG, Unipd);
- Economics and Business Organization in the Bachelor’s Degree in Product Innovation Engineering (DTG, Unipd);
- Environmental Project Management in the Master’s Degree in Applied Economics (DSEA, Unipd).

She obtained her Master’s Degree in Management Engineering (final grade: 110/110 cum laude) and her PhD in Management Engineering from the University of Padua.

Her research initially focused on the management of intellectual capital and intangible assets, and later expanded to include innovation management, particularly in connection with strategic aspects of business models. In these areas, she has published over 45 articles in leading international journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Long Range Planning, and the International Journal of Management Reviews.

Lara Agostini has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management and is currently Associate Editor of Asian Business & Management and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of Innovation Management. She has also contributed to organizing several special issues, working as a Guest Editor for journals such as the Journal of Knowledge Management, Management Decision, and the European Journal of Innovation Management.

She has received several international awards for her research, including:
- Best Paper Award for the article “Open innovation with scientific partners and patenting: the moderating role of the internal context for innovation” presented at the 12th IFKAD Conference, Saint Petersburg (Russia), 2017;
- John Bessant Best Paper Award for “Towards an integrated view of ambidexterity: an empirical investigation” presented at the CINet Conference, Budapest (Hungary), 2014;
- Best Student Paper Award for “Patented Inventions in Mechanical Small and Medium Enterprises: Does Quality influence performance?” presented at the IAMB Conference, Lisbon (Portugal), 2013;
- Highly Recommended Paper Award for “Protecting Intellectual Property to enhance firm performance: does it work for SMEs?” presented at the IFKAD Conference, Matera (Italy), 2012.

She was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Human Resources and Change Management at Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), working on a project focused on managing networks among small and medium-sized enterprises. She has also established collaborations with universities in Brazil, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands, as well as with several Italian universities, including Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, LIUC – Cattaneo University, University of Pisa, University of Naples Federico II, and University of Parma.

Lastly, she served as Communication Manager for the INTERREG Central Europe INNOPEER AVM Project: “PEER-to-peer network of INNOvation agencies and business schools developing a novel transnational qualification programme on AdVanced Manufacturing for the needs of Central European SMEs” (2017–2020).

Notices

Office hours

  • at Primo Piano - Complesso San Nicola
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Publications

Valente, M., Caviggioli, F., & Agostini, L. (2025). Space Economy and Sustainability: A Systematic Review. Sustainable Development (Accepted, Early view: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sd.3383).
Filosa, C., Jovanovic, M., Agostini, L., & Nosella, A. (2025). Pivoting B2B platform business models: From platform experimentation to multi-platform integration to ecosystem envelopment. International Journal of Production Economics, 280, 109466.
Wegner, D., Dias, M. F. P., Agostini, L., & Nosella, A. (2025). The Micro-Governance of Collaborative Networks for Water Protection: A Configurational Analysis. Administration & Society, 57(1), 129-153.
De Silva, D. M., Agostini, L., Nosella, A., & Verwaal, E. (2024). Epistemic tensions in R&D alliances and the role of inter-organizational management controls. Journal of Management & Organization. Published online 2024:1-20. doi:10.1017/jmo.2024.19
Agostini, L., Nosella, A., Teshome, M. B., & Holgersson, M. (2024). What is patent management? The purification and validation of an integrated measurement scale. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 913-927.
Agostini, L., Nosella, A., & Holgersson, M. (2023). Patent management: the prominent role of strategy and organization. European Journal of Innovation Management, 26(4), 1054-1070.
Agostini, L., Nosella, A., Sarala, R., & Nkeng, C. (2023). Emerging trends around strategic flexibility: a systematic review supported by bibliometric techniques. Management Decision, 62(13), 46-92.
Agostini, L. and Nosella, A. (2023). Intellectual capital and resilience: evidence from two cases of SMEs, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 21(5), 929-942
Agostini, L., Onofrio, R., Piccolo, C., & Stefanini, A. (2023). A management perspective on resilience in healthcare: a framework and avenues for future research. BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), 774.
Fortes, M.B.V., Agostini, L., Wegner, D. & Nosella, A. (2023). Paradoxes and Tensions in Interorganizational Relationships: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 16(1), 35.
Manconi, M., Bellomo, S., Nosella, A., & Agostini, L. (2022). Attributes of Business Incubators: A Conjoint Analysis of Venture Capitalist’s Decision Making. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(5), 213.
Paiola, M., Agostini, L., Grandinetti, R., & Nosella, A. (2022). The process of business model innovation driven by IoT: Exploring the case of incumbent SMEs. Industrial Marketing Management, 103, 30-46.
Agostini, L., Bigliardi, B., Filippelli, S., & Galati, F. (2021). Seller reputation, distribution and intention to purchase refurbished products. Journal of Cleaner Production, 316, 128296.
Agostini, L., & Nosella, A. (2021). Industry 4.0 and business models: a bibliometric literature review. Business Process Management Journal, 27(5), 1633-1655
Agostini, L., & Nosella, A. (2021). Multilevel Antecedents of Organizational Speed: The Exemplary Case of a Small Italian R&D Organization. Sustainability, 13(13), 7502.
Agostini, L., Nosella, A., Sarala, R.M., Spender, J.C. & Wegner, D. (2020). Tracing the evolution of the literature on knowledge management in inter-organizational contexts: a bibliometric analysis, Journal of Knowledge Management, 24(2), 463-490.
Agostini, L., & Nosella, A. (2020). The adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies in SMEs: results of an international study. Management Decision, 58(4), 625-643.