Il sottoscritto Josip Kotlar, Codice Fiscale KTL JSP 84S30Z 149U , nato a Zara (Croazia) il 30/11/1984, residente a Preston (Regno Unito), in Moor Park Avenue no. 1, consapevole che chiunque rilascia dichiarazioni mendaci è punito ai sensi del codice penale e delle leggi speciali in materia, ai sensi e per gli effetti dell'art. 46 D.P.R. n. 445/2000 DICHIARA che gli autori della pubblicazione scientifica contenuta nel presente documento hanno contributo alla sua realizzazione come indicato di seguito: • De Massis ha scritto le sezioni intitolate "Tradition and Family Businesses", "Sources of Past Knowledge", "Research Gaps and Related Research Questions" per i Research Gaps dal Nr. 1 al Nr. 6 • Frattini ha scritto le sezioni intitolate "Dynamic Capabilities, and Creating and Capturing Value With Innovation", "Forms of Past Knowledge", "Types of Product Innovation" • Kotlar ha scritto le sezioni intitolate "Toward a Model of Innovation Through Tradition", "Illustrative Examples of Long-Lasting and Innovative Family Firms", "Research Gaps and Related Research Questions" per i Research Gaps dal Nr. 7 al Nr. 12 • Messeni Petruzzelli ha scritto le sezioni intitolate "Is Tradition a Resource or a Liability?", "Temporal Search and Tradition", "Interiorization and Reinterpretation Capabilities" • Wright ha scritto la sezione intitolata "Introduction"

In order to adhere to the concept of sustainable development, firms are increasingly expected to develop innovations that reconcile economic, environmental, and social goals (i.e., sustainable innovations). However, achieving this goal is not straightforward, and although several studies have attempted to improve our understanding of sustainable innovation, a systematization of extant findings is lacking. Therefore, this paper conducts a literature review with the objective of organizing previous research regarding sustainable innovation. A systematic approach is adopted, identifying 69 relevant articles. These articles are organized according to three key perspectives: internal managerial, external relational, and performance evaluation. The results demonstrate that the first perspective, incorporating diverse managerial aspects, is the most considered, whereas the second and third perspectives remain underdeveloped. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research. KEYWORDS sustainable development, sustainable innovation, systematic literature review

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The view of innovation as a process of searching and recombining existing knowledge elements has been adopted in several industries. The innovation management literature has recognized the fundamental role that search and recombination play in innovation development. However, the relevant research has provided complex, fragmented and mixed results. The authors aim to identify areas of convergence and provide directions for future research by collecting empirical evidence regarding how firms conduct the search and recombination process. They conducted a systematic literature review of 87 empirical articles in the innovation management field. The review reveals differences among the solutions adopted both within and across organizational boundaries. Specifically, it shows that the variety and diversity of knowledge elements are critical in creating breakthrough innovations. Therefore, this paper discusses how to provide access to a variety of knowledge elements. It also highlights other fundamental questions calling for further investigation, such as how scientific knowledge elements are successfully recombined and how recombination and search dynamics occur in small and medium-sized firms. The review concludes by summarizing the current state of affairs and suggests promising directions for future investigation.

We adopt a knowledge‐based perspective to investigate the individual and interaction effects of partner geographic and organizational proximity on the innovative performance of knowledge‐creating alliances. Our econometric analysis on a sample of 1,515 interfirm dyadic knowledge‐creating R&D alliances shows that both geographic distance between allied firms and their affiliation with the same business group negatively affect the alliance innovative performance. However, when jointly considered, the two examined partner characteristics positively moderate each other's effect on alliance innovative performance, so revealing a complementary effect on it. We argue that, while the existence of group ties between geographically distant organizations reduces the negative influence of geographic distance on the partners' ability to integrate their knowledge within the alliance, collaborating with remote partners weakens the negative influence of the existence of group ties between partners on knowledge diversity in alliances. We conclude that geographic distance and organizational proximity are contingent upon one another in their effect on the innovative performance of knowledge‐creating alliances and that distance (proximity) in one dimension can be bridged (overcome) by proximity (distance) in another dimension.

The rapid growth of digital technologies and the extraordinary amount of data that devices and applications collect each day are increasingly driving companies to radically transform the business architecture through which they create and appropriate value. However, companies may fail to extract value from digital transformation due to the disconnection between strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Through the analysis of three case studies of firms that digitally transformed their business - namely ABB, CNH Industrial, and Vodafone -, this article presents a framework than can help companies implement their digital transformation strategy and thereby renovate their business model.

Management and organizational scholars have paid increasing attention to the interconnections between digital transformation and innovation management in the last decade. However, a highly fragmented understanding of this topic is what we are left with so far. In this editorial, we suggest an approach to open up the black box of the interplay between digital transformation and innovation management by providing a framework that identifies three levels of analyisis (i.e., macro, meso, and micro) along which existing and future research on the topic can be organized. This model encourages scholars to conduct theoretical and empirical studies on how digital transformation affects ecosystems’ structure and governance, how industries and firms compete and organize for innovation in a digitalized world, how the processes for developing new products and services change under the effect of digital technologies, and the implications of digital transformation on managing people and teams involved in the innovation process, among the other topics. We also provide a synthesis of the eight papers published in the Special Issue that this editorial introduces and develop an agenda for future research that will hopefully contribute to encourage and shape future scholarly efforts into this field.

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