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Department of Strategy and Innovation
Carmelo Cennamo is Professor with special responsibilities of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, where he is Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship Concentration studies of the MBA Program.
Expert on Digital Platforms, Digital Markets, Ecosystems, he studies how firms manage their interdependent activities and how they try to shape the business context where these activities take place to gain competitive advantage. His work spans different sectors including videogames, mobile apps, oil and gas, automotive, hospitality, mobility, online news, blockchain and initial coins offerings; has appeared in the top academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Research Policy, as well as MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and has been recognised with prestigious awards such as Best Paper Prize (finalist) from the Strategic Management Society (2014, 2018), Best Paper Award (finalist, 2017), Best Paper Proceedings (2017, 2015, 2013), Best Dissertation Award (finalist, 2011), and Distinguished Student Paper Award (2010) from the Academy of Management.
His research on competitive dynamics in platform markets and ecosystems addresses questions such as:
- What is an ecosystem? How do you build it?
- What are platform markets and why do they matter?
- How do you compete in digital, platform markets?
- How do platforms disrupt incumbents' business and entire sectors?
A frequent keynote speaker on these topics in academic, corporate and industry events, he is also very active in the public debate on the broader impact that platforms and digital have in the modern society and economy.
- Platform ecosystems
- Competition in digital markets
- Platform competition and platform disruption
- Digital transformation at market and sector level
Carmelo Cennamo is the program coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Concentration courses in the MBA Program at CBS.
He teaches also the "Innovation and Strategy in the Digital Economy”, “Strategy and Market Development”, and “Strategies for Growth” courses in the MSc program at CBS.
C. Cennamo. (in press). Competing in Digital Markets: A Platform-based Perspective. Academy of Management Perspectives (https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0048)
M. Masucci, S. Brusoni, C. Cennamo. 2020. Removing Bottlenecks in Business Ecosystems: The Strategic Role of Outbound Open Innovation. Research Policy, 49(1). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103823)
C. Cennamo & J. Santaló. 2019. “Generativity Tension and Value Creation in Platform Ecosystems”, Organization Science, 30: 447-646 (https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1270).
M.G. Jacobides, C. Cennamo & Gawer A. 2018. “Towards a Theory of Ecosystems.”, Strategic Management Journal, 39: 2255-2276. (https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2904)
C. Cennamo, Ozalp H., & Kretschmer T. 2018. “Platform Architecture and Quality Tradeoffs of Multihoming Complements”. Information Systems Research, 29 (2): 461-478 (https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2018.0779)
Ozalp H., Cennamo C., Gawer A. 2018. “Disruption in platform-based ecosystems?”, Journal of Management Studies, 55: 1203–1241. Special issue on Managing in the Age of Disruptions. (https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12351)
C. Cennamo, 2018. “Building the Value of Next-Generation Platforms: The Paradox of Diminishing Returns”, Journal of Management, 44: 3038-3049 (published online in June 2016: https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316658350).
C. Cennamo & J. Santaló, 2013. “Platform Competition: Strategic Tradeoffs in Platform Markets”, Strategic Management Journal, vol. 34: 1331–1350 – Link to article
I. Visnjic, C. Cennamo, A. Neely, 2017. “Governing the city: Unleashing Value from the Business Ecosystem”, California Management Review, vol. 59(1)– special issue on “The City as a Lab: Open Innovation meets the Collaborative Economy”, editors: B. Cohen, E. Almirall, H. Chesbrough.
C. Cennamo & J. Santaló, 2015. “How to Avoid Platform Traps”, MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 57: 12–15 – Link to article
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
In: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 45, No. 9, 9.2024, p. 1731-1790
Firenze : Dynamic Competition Initiative 2024, 7 p.
In: Research Policy, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1.2024
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Valhalla, NY : Academy of Management 2024, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
In: Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 23.7.2024
Paper presented at DRUID23 Conference, 2023
Paper presented at DRUID23 Conference, 2023
In: Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1.2023, p. 44–51
In: MIT Sloan Management Review Mexico, 26.10.2023
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2023, 1 p., p. 2621 (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
Paper presented at DRUID23 Conference, 2023
Paper presented at DRUID23 Conference, 2023
In: Research Handbook on Digital Strategy. ed. /Carmelo Cennamo; Giovanni Battista Dagnino; Feng Zhu. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, p. 1-16 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)
Barcelona : ESADE 2023, 15 p. (Open Internet Governance Institute Paper Series, No. 4)
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023, 420 p. (Research Handbooks in Business and Management)
In: MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 65, No. 1, 9.2023, p. 62-67
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonia Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2023, 1 p. (Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings)
In: MIS Quarterly Executive, Vol. 21, No. 1, 3.2022, p. 55-74
Paper presented at DRUID22 Conference, 2022
Munich : CESifo Group 2022, 48 p. (CESifo Working Paper, No. 9832)
In: Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management . ed. /Sonja Taneja. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2022, 1 p., p. 925 (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: California Management Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, 8.2022, p. 47-77
In: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, 3.2022, p. 507-529
In: Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 19.3.2021
In: Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 35, No. 2, 5.2021, p. 265-291
In: The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act: A Forward-looking and Consumer-centred Perspective . . ed. /Lukas Wiewiorra; Ilse Godlovitch. Bruxelles : European Parliament 2021
In: Long Range Planning, Vol. 54, No. 5, 10.2021
Paper presented at DRUID21 Conference, 2021
Paper presented at DRUID21 Conference, 2021
In: Proceedings of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briarcliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2020, 1 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: California Management Review, Vol. 62, No. 4, 8.2020, p. 5-16
In: Research Policy, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2.2020
In: Academy of Management Discoveries, Vol. 6, No. 3, 9.2020, p. 382-405
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Guclu Atinc. Briar Cliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2019, 6 p., p. 466-471 (Academy of Management Proceedings)
In: Organization Science, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2019, p. 617–641
In: Journal of Management, Vol. 44, No. 8, 1.11.2018, p. 3038-3069
In: Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 55, No. 7, 11.2018, p. 1203-1241
In: Information Systems Research, Vol. 29, No. 2, 6.2018, p. 461-478
In: Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 39, No. 8, 8.2018, p. 2255-2276
In: Proceedings of the Seventy-seven Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. ed. /Sonja Taneja. Briar Cliff Manor, NY : Academy of Management 2017, 6 p. (Academy of Management Proceedings)
: Universität St. Gallen 2024
London : Competition and Markets Authority 2021, 5 p.
In: Financial Times, 18.5.2020
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| Year | Name of contractual partner | Type of activity |
| 2019, 2020 | DEVO Digital Lab at SDA Bocconi School of Management | Research coordinator of the research project on Platform Economy and Platform Disruption |
| 2021 | SDA Bocconi | Teaching executive education |
| 2021 | Huawei Europe | Strategy advice |
| 2021 | Amazon Europe | Strategy advice |
| 2021 | European Parliament, IMCO committee | Expert advice |
| 2024 | University of St. Gallen | Visiting professor |
| 2024 | IE Business School | Visiting professor |
| 2024 | Google Inc. | Commissioned research project on "open ecosystems" |