Alberto Ferraris
Biographic Data
| ID | 5773998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Ferraris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferraris |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3125-1710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the DEIverse: A comprehensive review and research agenda on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the metaverse
Metaverse platforms are shifting from speculative visions to deployed infrastructures and intensifying diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) concerns through embodied participation, intensive data capture, and platform governance. We use the DEIverse as a cartographic label for the research space where metaverse technologies intersect with DEI concerns and map its topic structure. We compile 176 publications (2007-2024) from Scopus, Web of Scien…
From ambition to action: A systematic review of empirical literature on transformative innovation policy implementation
This paper presents the first systematic review focused on empirical studies of the implementation phase of Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs), aiming to advance understanding of how these policies unfold in real-world contexts. By jointly analyzing 65 empirical case studies published between 2010 and 2025, the study offers a comparative perspective that moves beyond isolated case analysis and enables the identification of recurring implem…
One hundred and twenty-five years of the British Food Journal: A bibliometric analysis
Purpose This study aims to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the British Food Journal (BFJ) to evaluate its contributions to food-related research over its 125-year history. It explores publication trends, thematic developments, and citation structures to assess the academic and societal impact of the journal. Design/methodology/approach The analysis includes 5,208 documents published in the BFJ between 1899 and 2024, sourced from …
Demystifying sustainable innovation and governance in family firms: A critical review
Family firms' governance, which is inherently risk-averse, frequently inhibits sustainable innovation. However, the same governance structure, driven by a strong desire for oversight, can enhance innovation outcomes by ensuring diligent monitoring and execution. This paper aims to conceptualise how governance bodies within family firms contribute to fostering sustainable innovation. To this end, we conducted a critical review to identify the stat…
Determinants of resilience in local food systems: Insights from world agriculture heritage sites
Purpose This study delves into the relationship between local food systems and food tourism destinations, with a specific focus on resilience. Drawing on stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, we investigate the determinants of this relationship such as destination food image (DFI), food authenticity (FA), food culture (FC), food experience (FE), food traditional value (FTV), local food products (LFPs) and resilient food system (RFS) as cruci…
Help me help you: How HR analytics forecasts foster organizational creativity
Organizational creativity is increasingly deemed a crucial source of organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage. As several previous researches found that some human resource management (HRM) activities act as antecedents of organizational creativity, HR-related decisions are increasingly deemed as high stake decisions, as poor choices may originate large financial loss and may be very costly to reverse. For this reason, organizations…
Growth hacking: A critical review to clarify its meaning and guide its practical application
There is an increasing recognition among academics and practitioners that growth hacking provides a means to bridge the gap between strategy definition and strategy implementation. Significant tensions tend to arise across this gap. However, the data-driven experimentation, and the organizational capabilities developed within the firm, increase the ability of the company to foster technological forecasting and business model innovation. It is arg…
Literature reviews as independent studies: Guidelines for academic practice
Review articles or literature reviews are a critical part of scientific research. While numerous guides on literature reviews exist, these are often limited to the philosophy of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures, triggering non-parsimonious reporting and confusion due to overlapping similarities. To address the aforementioned limitations, we adopt a pragmatic approach to demystify and shape the academic practice of conducting litera…
Factors mediating social media-induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue: A comparative study among Instagram and Snapchat users
The proliferation of social media platforms has provided researchers with ample opportunities to explore the implications of these platforms' positive and negative use. Focusing on the latter, the literature has highlighted the severe implications of the fear of missing out (FoMO) and its associations with negative aspects of social media use, such as the problematic use of social media, phubbing, and reduced well-being. Our study investigates th…
Opening up the black box on digitalization and agility: Key drivers and main outcomes
Leveraging blockchain technology for green innovation in ecosystem-based business models: A dynamic capability of values appropriation
Antecedents and consequences of fast-food restaurant customers' perception of price fairness
Purpose This study examines the influence of service quality dimensions (food quality, physical environment quality and employee service quality) and brand image of fast-food restaurants on price fairness and its consequence on customer retention. Design/methodology/approach This survey collected 331 responses using the public intercept method. Data analysis involved performing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the measurement model, followed…
Innovation, environmental sustainability and economic development: DEA-Bootstrap and multilevel analysis to compare two regions
The impact of supply chain innovation on competitive advantage in the construction industry: Evidence from a moderated multi-mediation model
Measurement of consumer awareness of food waste: Construct development with a confirmatory factor analysis
Purpose This study aims to examine the role of hunger, environmental, economic, landfill and water shortage concerns as significant dimensions of consumer social awareness marketing in socially responsible plate food consumption. Design/methodology/approach To carry out their purpose, the authors validate the hypothesized model empirically through data from 1,536 households using structural equation modeling (SEM). In particular, the construct me…
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in the tourism sector: A systematic literature review and future outlook
The current study intends to synthesise extant studies addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the tourism sector. It employed qualitative content analysis to present the research profile, prominent conceptual, qualitative and quantitative studies, research gaps and future research questions. The review results indicate that research on CSR in tourism is a promising area of study that is growing rapidly. This review…
Factors influencing user participation in social media: Evidence from twitter usage during Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
The seven lives of Airbnb. The role of accommodation types
The relationship between food heritage and clan culture: Is “familiness” the missing link in SMEs
Purpose This paper empirically tests the relationship between food heritage, familiness, and clan culture, thus, highlighting the pivotal role of familiness in building robustly competitive food firms based on clan culture and food heritage. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach adopted is based on a quantitative analysis with data from one eco-tourist city in Iran (Torqabeh). In this regard, we developed a structured questionna…
Innovation within the food companies: How creative partnerships may conduct to better performances
Purpose This is one of the first empirical studies aimed at analyzing the interrelation between creative partnerships (CPs), absorptive (AC), knowledge application (KA) capacities and innovation performance in food companies. Design/methodology/approach We tested this on a sample of 112 Italian medium-sized food firms that established CPs through a partial least square (PLS) structural equation model (SEM) approach. Findings Results are in favor …
Big data analytics capabilities and performance: Evidence from a moderated multi-mediation model
The management of organizational ambidexterity through alliances in a new context of analysis: Internet of Things (IoT) smart city projects
Factors influencing user participation in social media: Evidence from twitter usage during Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
The seven lives of Airbnb. The role of accommodation types
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in the tourism sector: A systematic literature review and future outlook
The current study intends to synthesise extant studies addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the tourism sector. It employed qualitative content analysis to present the research profile, prominent conceptual, qualitative and quantitative studies, research gaps and future research questions. The review results indicate that research on CSR in tourism is a promising area of study that is growing rapidly. This review…
The management of organizational ambidexterity through alliances in a new context of analysis: Internet of Things (IoT) smart city projects
Big data analytics capabilities and performance: Evidence from a moderated multi-mediation model
The relationship between food heritage and clan culture: Is “familiness” the missing link in SMEs
Purpose This paper empirically tests the relationship between food heritage, familiness, and clan culture, thus, highlighting the pivotal role of familiness in building robustly competitive food firms based on clan culture and food heritage. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach adopted is based on a quantitative analysis with data from one eco-tourist city in Iran (Torqabeh). In this regard, we developed a structured questionna…
Innovation within the food companies: How creative partnerships may conduct to better performances
Purpose This is one of the first empirical studies aimed at analyzing the interrelation between creative partnerships (CPs), absorptive (AC), knowledge application (KA) capacities and innovation performance in food companies. Design/methodology/approach We tested this on a sample of 112 Italian medium-sized food firms that established CPs through a partial least square (PLS) structural equation model (SEM) approach. Findings Results are in favor …
Innovation, environmental sustainability and economic development: DEA-Bootstrap and multilevel analysis to compare two regions
The impact of supply chain innovation on competitive advantage in the construction industry: Evidence from a moderated multi-mediation model
Measurement of consumer awareness of food waste: Construct development with a confirmatory factor analysis
Purpose This study aims to examine the role of hunger, environmental, economic, landfill and water shortage concerns as significant dimensions of consumer social awareness marketing in socially responsible plate food consumption. Design/methodology/approach To carry out their purpose, the authors validate the hypothesized model empirically through data from 1,536 households using structural equation modeling (SEM). In particular, the construct me…
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in the tourism sector: A systematic literature review and future outlook
The current study intends to synthesise extant studies addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in the tourism sector. It employed qualitative content analysis to present the research profile, prominent conceptual, qualitative and quantitative studies, research gaps and future research questions. The review results indicate that research on CSR in tourism is a promising area of study that is growing rapidly. This review…
Factors influencing user participation in social media: Evidence from twitter usage during Covid-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia
The seven lives of Airbnb. The role of accommodation types
Literature reviews as independent studies: Guidelines for academic practice
Review articles or literature reviews are a critical part of scientific research. While numerous guides on literature reviews exist, these are often limited to the philosophy of review procedures, protocols, and nomenclatures, triggering non-parsimonious reporting and confusion due to overlapping similarities. To address the aforementioned limitations, we adopt a pragmatic approach to demystify and shape the academic practice of conducting litera…
Factors mediating social media-induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media fatigue: A comparative study among Instagram and Snapchat users
The proliferation of social media platforms has provided researchers with ample opportunities to explore the implications of these platforms' positive and negative use. Focusing on the latter, the literature has highlighted the severe implications of the fear of missing out (FoMO) and its associations with negative aspects of social media use, such as the problematic use of social media, phubbing, and reduced well-being. Our study investigates th…
Opening up the black box on digitalization and agility: Key drivers and main outcomes
Leveraging blockchain technology for green innovation in ecosystem-based business models: A dynamic capability of values appropriation
Antecedents and consequences of fast-food restaurant customers' perception of price fairness
Purpose This study examines the influence of service quality dimensions (food quality, physical environment quality and employee service quality) and brand image of fast-food restaurants on price fairness and its consequence on customer retention. Design/methodology/approach This survey collected 331 responses using the public intercept method. Data analysis involved performing confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) on the measurement model, followed…
Help me help you: How HR analytics forecasts foster organizational creativity
Organizational creativity is increasingly deemed a crucial source of organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage. As several previous researches found that some human resource management (HRM) activities act as antecedents of organizational creativity, HR-related decisions are increasingly deemed as high stake decisions, as poor choices may originate large financial loss and may be very costly to reverse. For this reason, organizations…
Growth hacking: A critical review to clarify its meaning and guide its practical application
There is an increasing recognition among academics and practitioners that growth hacking provides a means to bridge the gap between strategy definition and strategy implementation. Significant tensions tend to arise across this gap. However, the data-driven experimentation, and the organizational capabilities developed within the firm, increase the ability of the company to foster technological forecasting and business model innovation. It is arg…
Demystifying sustainable innovation and governance in family firms: A critical review
Family firms' governance, which is inherently risk-averse, frequently inhibits sustainable innovation. However, the same governance structure, driven by a strong desire for oversight, can enhance innovation outcomes by ensuring diligent monitoring and execution. This paper aims to conceptualise how governance bodies within family firms contribute to fostering sustainable innovation. To this end, we conducted a critical review to identify the stat…
Determinants of resilience in local food systems: Insights from world agriculture heritage sites
Purpose This study delves into the relationship between local food systems and food tourism destinations, with a specific focus on resilience. Drawing on stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, we investigate the determinants of this relationship such as destination food image (DFI), food authenticity (FA), food culture (FC), food experience (FE), food traditional value (FTV), local food products (LFPs) and resilient food system (RFS) as cruci…
Navigating the DEIverse: A comprehensive review and research agenda on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the metaverse
Metaverse platforms are shifting from speculative visions to deployed infrastructures and intensifying diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) concerns through embodied participation, intensive data capture, and platform governance. We use the DEIverse as a cartographic label for the research space where metaverse technologies intersect with DEI concerns and map its topic structure. We compile 176 publications (2007-2024) from Scopus, Web of Scien…
From ambition to action: A systematic review of empirical literature on transformative innovation policy implementation
This paper presents the first systematic review focused on empirical studies of the implementation phase of Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs), aiming to advance understanding of how these policies unfold in real-world contexts. By jointly analyzing 65 empirical case studies published between 2010 and 2025, the study offers a comparative perspective that moves beyond isolated case analysis and enables the identification of recurring implem…
One hundred and twenty-five years of the British Food Journal: A bibliometric analysis
Purpose This study aims to provide a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the British Food Journal (BFJ) to evaluate its contributions to food-related research over its 125-year history. It explores publication trends, thematic developments, and citation structures to assess the academic and societal impact of the journal. Design/methodology/approach The analysis includes 5,208 documents published in the BFJ between 1899 and 2024, sourced from …
Computer Science (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Marketing (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Marketing (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Knowledge management (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works)