Combining different methodologies (quantitative data of archival data, network analysis, experiments, interviews) my research advances scholarly understanding of 1) the role of intra-organizational and interorganizational networks in innovation and entrepreneurship 2) the interplay of positive (e.g. collaboration, kinship, exchange) and negative (e.g. competition, rivalry, hatred) ties and their influence on actor’s behaviour and performance 3) multilevel processes in organizational networks. My research uses evidence from a diverse set of empirical contexts, including high tech sectors (semiconductor industry,  video game industry,  smartphone industry) and some Italian contexts (the Palio di Siena, criminal infiltration in legal networks).

• Kumar, A. & Operti, E. Missed chances and unfulfilled hopes: Why do firms make errors in evaluating technological opportunities? Forthcoming, Strategic Management Journal
• Operti, E. & Kumar, A. Too much of a good thing? Network brokerage within and between regions and innovation performance (2021). Forthcoming, Regional Studies Link , Media
• Operti, E., Sgourev, S.V., Lampronti, S.Y. (2021) Choose your enemies well: Mapping, managing and leveraging rivalries. California Management Review, 64(1), 29–46. Link , Media
• Operti, E., Sgourev, S.V., Lampronti, S.Y. (2020). Hold your horses: Multiplexity, mobility and conflict in the “Palio di Siena” (1743-2010). Organization Science, 31(1), 85-102. Link, Media
• Sgourev, S.V., Operti, E. (2019) From Montagues to Capulets? Analyzing the systemic nature of rivalry in career mobility. Academy of Management Journal,  62 (5), 1333-1357. Link
• Operti, E. (2018) Tough on criminal assets? Exploring the link between organized crime asset confiscation and regional entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 51(2), 321 – 335. Link, Media
• Carnabuci, G., Operti, E., & Kovács, B. (2015). The categorical imperative and structural reproduction: Dynamics of technological entry in the semiconductor industry. Organization Science, 26(6), 1734 – 1751. Link
• Operti, E., & Carnabuci, G. (2014) Public knowledge, private gain: the effect of knowledge spillover networks on firms’ innovative performance. Journal of Management, 40(4), 1042 –1074 Link, Media
• Carnabuci, G., & Operti, E. (2013) Where do firms’ recombinant capabilities come from? Intra-organizational networks, knowledge, and firms’ ability to innovate by technological recombination. Strategic Management Journal, 34, 1591 –1613 Link, Media

• Operti, E. (2019). Crime organisé et marchés légaux. Futuribles, (5), 27-31. Link

• Nannetti, F., Operti, E. How professional and family ties affect idea elaboration for men and women. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2023.
• Lampronti, S.Y., Operti, E., Sgourev, S.V. Strategic alternation of stakeholder salience: Insights from the “Monte dei Paschi di Siena” crisis (1996-2012). Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 2019.
• Operti, E., Sgourev, S., Lampronti, S. A war in ninety seconds: moderation and escalation of neighborhood rivalry in the “Palio di Siena”. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August 2015.
• Operti, E., & Carnabuci, G. Good for one, bad for most? Intrafirm networks and innovation at the inventor and firm level. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August 2012.
• Carnabuci, G., & Operti, E. Investigating the link between R&D organization and firms’ recombinant capabilities. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August 2010.
• Operti, E., & Carnabuci, G. Knowledge that flows and knowledge that grows: inventive performance in the semiconductor field. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August 2008.

• Operti, E., and Carnabuci, G. 2008. Knowledge growth through inter-organizational knowledge recombination: an analysis of the U.S. semiconductor industry between 1976-2002. In A. Comacchio and A. Pontiggia (Eds.). L’organizzazione fa la differenza: 259-286. Roma: Carocci.
• Cantamessa, M., Milanesio, M. and Operti, E. 2006. Value Chain Structure and Correlation Between Design Structure Matrices. In H.A ElMaraghy and ElMaraghy, W.H. (Eds.), Advances in Design: 303-313. London: Springer-Verlag.

• Lampronti, S. Y., Operti, E., & Sgourev, S. V. Title hidden for peer review. 3rd Revise & Resubmit.
• Lampronti, S.Y., Operti, E. Title hidden for peer review. 1st Revise & Resubmit
• Kumar, A. & Operti, E. Title hidden for peer review. Reject & Resubmit.
• Bhatt, H. & Operti, E. When Heads Means Tails: Contingent Signaling Effects of Anti-mafia Interventions on MNEs’ Acquisitions in Italy. To be submitted
• Operti, E., & Carnabuci, G. Good for one, bad for most? Untangling the effects of relative and absolute centrality at the inventor and firm level. To be submitted 
• Operti, E. & Barthélemy, J. Catchy lemons vs. hidden treasures: the tradeoff between product visibility and appeal in the video game industry (1980-2011). To be submitted.
• Nannetti, F., Operti, E., Sgourev, S. A Meta-Analysis of gender differences in competition: preferences and moderators. Data collection and data analysis
• Kumar, A., Operti, E., Uotila, J. From Nokia to Slush: Incumbent Firms’ Decline and the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Data collection and data analysis