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Overview

Davide Castellani is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. More specifically, their work engages deeply with subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, and Accounting, with additional focus on Management of Technology and Innovation.

Themes central to Castellani's research include Innovation and Knowledge Management, International Business and Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Corporate Finance and Governance, and Innovation Policy and Research & Development (R&D). They also investigate Firm Innovation and Growth, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, and aspects of Global Trade and Economics.

Recent publications by Castellani illustrate these focal points. Selected papers include:

  • Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies, 2021, Research Policy
  • International connectivity and the location of multinational enterprises' knowledge-intensive activities: Evidence from US metropolitan areas, 2021, Global Strategy Journal
  • Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries, 2021, Journal of World Business

Frequent coauthors provide insight into Castellani's collaborative network. These include:

  • Katiuscia Lavoratori
  • Sandro Montresor
  • Alessandra Perri
  • Vittoria Giada Scalera
  • Fabio Lamperti

Castellani's work is often published in a consistent set of venues, reflecting their academic focus and audience. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Global Strategy Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Regional Science
  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Their scholarship integrates multiple dimensions of business and economics research, highlighting interactions between multinational enterprises, regional development, and innovation systems. Through studies on foreign direct investments and knowledge integration, Castellani contributes to understanding how organizations manage and deploy innovative capabilities across geographic and organizational borders.

Best Publications

  • Export behavior and productivity growth: Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

    Davide Castellani

  • Multinational Firms, Innovation and Productivity

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Location choices of multinational firms in Europe: The role of EU cohesion policy

    Roberto Basile;Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Firms in International Trade: Importers and Exporters Heterogeneity in the Italian Manufacturing Industry

    Davide Castellani;Francesco Serti;Chiara Tomasi

  • Internationalisation, Innovation and Productivity: How Do Firms Differ in Italy?

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Technology Gaps, Absorptive Capacity and the Impact of Inward Investments on Productivity of European firms *

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals

    Giorgio Barba Navaretti;Davide Castellani

  • Age and firm growth: evidence from three European countries

    Giorgio Barba Navaretti;Davide Castellani;Fabio Pieri

  • How does investing in cheap labour countries affect performance at home? Firm-level evidence from France and Italy

    Giorgio Barba Navaretti;Davide Castellani;Anne-Célia Disdier

  • How remote are R&D labs? Distance factors and international innovative activities

    Davide Castellani;Alfredo Jimenez;Antonello Zanfei

  • Firms’ exporting and importing activities: is there a two-way relationship?

    David Aristei;Davide Castellani;Chiara Franco

  • R&D offshoring and the productivity growth of European regions

    Davide Castellani;Fabio Pieri

  • Multinational experience and the creation of linkages with local firms: evidence from the electronics industry

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Choosing international linkage strategies in the electronics industry: the role of multinational experience

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • The impact of outward investments on parent company's employment and skill composition

    Davide Castellani;Ilaria Mariotti;Lucia Piscitello

  • Multinational companies and productivity spillovers: is there a specification error?

    Davide Castellani;Antonello Zanfei

  • Attracting Foreign Direct Investments in Europe: are Italian Regions Doomed?

    Roberto Basile;Luigi Benfratello;Davide Castellani

  • Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies

    Davide Castellani;Davide Castellani;Giovanni Marin;Sandro Montresor;Antonello Zanfei

  • How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performances at Home? France and Italy

    Giorgio Barba Navaretti;Davide Castellani;Anne-Celia Disdier

  • Attracting Foreign Direct Investments in Europe: Are Italian Regions Doomed?

    Roberto Basile;Luigi Benfratello;Davide Castellani

  • Multinationality, R&D and productivity : Evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide

    Davide Castellani;Sandro Montresor;Torben Schubert;Antonio Vezzani

  • Productivity and the international firm: dissecting heterogeneity

    Davide Castellani;Giorgia Giovannetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Vivarelli
Marco Vivarelli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Sandro Montresor
Sandro Montresor University of Trento
Lucia Piscitello
Lucia Piscitello Polytechnic University of Milan
Gabriel R. G. Benito
Gabriel R. G. Benito BI Norwegian Business School
Richard Kneller
Richard Kneller University of Nottingham
David Greenaway
David Greenaway University of Nottingham
Loren Brandt
Loren Brandt University of Toronto
Bart van Ark
Bart van Ark University of Manchester
Holger Görg
Holger Görg Kiel University
Joachim Wagner
Joachim Wagner Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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