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Carmelo Cennamo
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Copenhagen Business School
Affiliate Professor
SDA Bocconi School of Management
Biography
Carmelo Cennamo is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, Affiliate Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and has been a faculty member at Bocconi University, visiting research fellow at Harvard University and visiting professor at IE Business School. A frequent keynote speaker in academic and corporate events, as well as in broad-appeal events such as World Economic Forum, TEDx, Competition Policy International, Concurrences, he is a leading expert on competition in digital platform markets, and on business ecosystems. His research aims at understanding how the peculiarities of multi-sided platforms affect competitive dynamics in digital markets, traditional sectors, and the strategies for managing platform ecosystems. His ongoing projects concern the role of market design and ecosystem orchestration by platform firms and the implications for the digital transformation of sectors and competition policy.
His work has appeared in top academic journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Information Systems Research, Research Policy, and has been prized with prestigious acknowledgements and awards. His (single-authored) article “Competing in Digital Markets: A Platform-based Perspective” received the Best Published Article from the Academy of Management in Seattle, in August 2022. His article coauthored with Michael G. Jacobides and Annabelle Gawer “Towards a Theory of Ecosystems” has been the most downloaded and read article of the Strategic Management Journal since its publication.
On policy competition, he launched the Digital Market Competition Forum, an initiative to bridge academic research and practice on the ways digital platforms create value in the digital economy and promote a research agenda on the pressing challenges for competition regulation in digital markets. was one of three scholars (along with Fiona Scott Morton and Heike Schweitzer) invited by the European Parliament committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) to review the EU Digital Markets Act. Also, he has provided comments on the UK CMA’s Facebook/GIPHY merger investigation, as well as on the recent discussion paper by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on the need for new regulation for digital platform services markets. He has also authored different articles on digital platforms regulation in relation to innovation and competition dynamics and the issue of “ecosystem failures”. Carmelo is also the director of the Platform Economy & Regulation monitor, a recently launched initiative at the SDA Bocconi School of Management to conduct research on the management practices, innovation and competition dynamics in the platform economy, and their implications for policy.