Alex A. Ferraresi

@pucpr.br

Professor Graduate Program in Cooperative Management
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Parana



              

https://researchid.co/alexferraresi

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Co-operatives, innovation, strategic marketing,, strategy

9

Scopus Publications

847

Scholar Citations

14

Scholar h-index

16

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • South american expert roundtable: Increasing adaptive governance capacity for coping with unintended side eects of digital transformation
    Gabriela Viale Pereira, Elsa Estevez, Diego Cardona, Carlos Chesñevar, Pablo Collazzo-Yelpo, Maria Alexandra Cunha, Eduardo Henrique Diniz, Alex Antonio Ferraresi, Frida Marina Fischer, Flúvio Cardinelle Oliveira Garcia,et al.

    MDPI AG
    This paper presents the main messages of a South American expert roundtable (ERT) on the unintended side effects (unseens) of digital transformation. The input of the ERT comprised 39 propositions from 20 experts representing 11 different perspectives. The two-day ERT discussed the main drivers and challenges as well as vulnerabilities or unseens and provided suggestions for: (i) the mechanisms underlying major unseens; (ii) understanding possible ways in which rebound effects of digital transformation may become the subject of overarching research in three main categories of impact: development factors, society, and individuals; and (iii) a set of potential action domains for transdisciplinary follow-up processes, including a case study in Brazil. A content analysis of the propositions and related mechanisms provided insights in the genesis of unseens by identifying 15 interrelated causal mechanisms related to critical issues/concerns. Additionally, a cluster analysis (CLA) was applied to structure the challenges and critical developments in South America. The discussion elaborated the genesis, dynamics, and impacts of (groups of) unseens such as the digital divide (that affects most countries that are not included in the development of digital business, management, production, etc. tools) or the challenge of restructuring small- and medium-sized enterprises (whose service is digitally substituted by digital devices). We identify specific issues and effects (for most South American countries) such as lack of governmental structure, challenging geographical structures (e.g., inclusion in high-performance transmission power), or the digital readiness of (wide parts) of society. One scientific contribution of the paper is related to the presented methodology that provides insights into the phenomena, the causal chains underlying “wanted/positive” and “unwanted/negative” effects, and the processes and mechanisms of societal changes caused by digitalization.

  • Relationship Between Innovation and Performance in Private Companies: Systematic Literature Review
    Tatiana Marceda Bach, Luciano Luiz Dalazen, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Alex Antonio Ferraresi, and Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

    SAGE Publications
    This article conducts a systematic literature review (SLR) on the relationship between innovation and performance in private companies. The research corpus was based on research protocol systematization. Dissemination of knowledge was examined in two stages: the summary of general corpus characteristics, and the content analysis performed according to the categories that emerged via the study’s themes. Relationships among authors, co-citations, keywords, and centrality statistics were identified through algorithms for optimizing standard graph layout. This study discusses the results of this relationship for improving the competitiveness of enterprises. The relationships among the authors of the corpus constitute relationships between isolated groups with little connectivity, low density, and a formation of distinct communities. The categories of analysis emerged in the study themes, as well as the techniques adopted to measure the relationships between innovation and private company performance. In the analyzed studies, innovation initiatives converge. Overall, they contribute to improvements in company performance. In the scientific field, initiatives for developing innovations have enhanced the performance of private companies. A key theoretical contribution of this article is in identifying the research corpus on the relationship between innovation and performance in private companies. The practical contribution of this study lies in offering evidence produced by studies that can help decision making regarding the creation of strategies and policies focused on competitiveness. The differences in the evidence found in the literature highlight the importance of the outcome of this study and indicate the need for future research in an effort to better understand the phenomenon.


  • Estrutura de capital e peculiaridades regionais nas cooperativas agropecuárias do Paraná - Brasil
    Jessé Aquino Rodrigues, Gerson José Lauermann, Vilmar Rodrigues Moreira, Alex Antônio Ferraresi, and Alceu Souza

    FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
    Resumo: Este estudo tem por objetivo caracterizar a estrutura de capital das cooperativas agropecuárias paranaenses e suas peculiaridades regionais. Foram analisados os contextos históricos regionais e as formas de capitalização vis-à-vis os processos de colonização de imigrantes europeus e de outros estados brasileiros e os projetos regionais de desenvolvimento. Para tal, foi utilizada uma amostra intencional das 43 cooperativas paranaenses que, juntas, representam 99,5% do faturamento total do ramo. As peculiaridades regionais foram analisadas por meio de Análise de Variância (ANOVA) e mapeamento perceptual. Conclui-se que é possível identificar agrupamentos de cooperativas segundo estratégias de capitalização e características regionais. Dentre as regiões analisadas, as cooperativas da região oeste do estado do Paraná, por terem maior nível de industrialização, possuem maior necessidade de capital de giro, enquanto a maioria das cooperativas do centro-sul do estado apresenta tesouraria positiva. Uma limitação do estudo é que, sem entender qual modelo poderia ser eleito o melhor para o setor, a questão da estrutura ótima de capital ainda permanece aberta para as cooperativas agropecuárias.

  • Relationships among Knowledge Management, Organisational Innovativeness and Performance: Covariance-Based Versus Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modelling
    José Roberto Frega, Alex Antonio Ferraresi, Carlos Olavo Quandt, and Claudimar Pereira da Veiga

    World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
    The relationships among effective knowledge management (KM), organisational innovativeness (OI), market orientation (MO) and organisational performance (OP) have been explored in the literature. These constructs are generally analysed in pairs, such as the influence of KM on OI, or KM on OP, and other combinations, but the relationships among the full set of constructs in question are not fully understood yet. In the extant literature, the relationships among them are analysed for the most part with covariance-based structural equation modelling (CB-SEM). Partial least-squares (PLS) path modelling is a component-based approach to SEM that is not as widely used as CB-SEM, but it has the potential to allow increased flexibility in handling various modelling problems in comparison with CB models, particularly for predictive and exploratory purposes. This paper aims to verify whether the PLS method could confirm or reject the results of the more restrictive covariance-based method in modelling the relationships among KM, OI, MO and OP. The results indicate that both methods yielded convergent and discriminant validity for the constructs, displaying stability across model analysis and depuration. The PLS model revealed the influence of KM on MO, OI and OP. It also shows that OI is the main driving factor for OP. KM seems to have a direct effect on OP, which is greatly magnified when mediated by OI. The sample size, although borderline adequate for the CB method, was more than adequate for PLS, yielding excellent model stability.

  • Dimensions of organizational innovativeness and its impact on innovation performance: Proposition and evaluation of a model
    Carlos Olavo Quandt, Cicero Aparecido Bezerra, and Alex Antônio Ferraresi

    FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
    O estudo propõe um modelo teórico que representa as condições organizacionais habilitadoras da inovação (definido, no estudo, como inovatividade) e avalia o impacto no desempenho inovador. Emprega-se a correlação canônica como forma de avaliar a capacidade do modelo em explicar a variação do desempenho inovador em 120 organizações de médio e grande porte localizadas, em sua maioria, no sul do Brasil. Os resultados indicam que as condições identificadas são consistentes em expressar as melhorias inovadoras nas empresas pesquisadas. Além disto, os resultados sugerem que organizações inovadoras que desenvolvem aspectos da cultura organizacional, liderança e processos de aprendizagem, apresentam desempenho superior no desenvolvimento e implantação de inovações.

  • The impacts of KnoWledge management on strategic orientation, and innovativeness in organizational outcomes: A surveY of companies operating in brazil
    Alex Antonio Ferraresi, Silvio Aparecido dos Santos, José Roberto Frega, and Carlos Olavo Quandt

    FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
    Este artigo é o resultado de uma survey realizada com 241 empresas instaladas no Brasil, com o objetivo de verificar se a gestão eficaz do conhecimento contribui para a orientação estratégica da empresa, para sua inovatividade e para os resultados organizacionais. O levantamento dos dados foi realizado por meio de questionários eletrônicos autoadministráveis contendo 54 questões com escalas de 10 pontos para medir o grau de concordância das variáveis dos quatro construtos envolvidos no estudo. Na análise dos dados, utilizou-se a técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais. Fundamentada na teoria da empresa baseada em recursos, a pesquisa partiu do pressuposto de que o conhecimento, além de ser um dos princpais recursos de uma organização, alavanca os demais recursos. Os resultados mostraram evidências que permitiram concluir que a gestão eficaz do conhecimento contribui positivamente para a orientação estratégica, porém não foi possível concluir sobre a contribuição positiva desses construtos sobre os demais, quando analisadas as suas relações diretas. Quando mediada pela orientação estratégica, a gestão eficaz do conhecimento mostrou efeitos totais e indiretos robustos e estatisticamente significantes sobre os resultados organizacionais. Os impactos da gestão do conhecimento e da inovatividade da empresa mostraram-se significantes e robustos quando alinhados com uma orientação estratégica que permite à empresa se antecipar e responder às condições do mercado. Verificou-se que a gestão do conhecimento permeia todas as relações entre os demais construtos, o que corrobora o argumento de que o conhecimento é um recurso que alavanca as demais atividades geradoras de valor nas organizações. Embora existam inúmeras pesquisas que abordam os construtos aqui envolvidos, a originalidade deste estudo repousa na análise simultânea desses conceitos, orientada por uma metodologia que permite sua replicação em outras culturas e condições. Além disso, o estudo traz implicações gerenciais no sentido de afirmar que a gestão do conhecimento e suas práticas possuem um caráter estratégico que deve ser considerado antes da aplicação de práticas pontuais para o alcance de objetivos específicos.

  • Relationships among knowledge management, innovation and outcomes: A PLS approach


  • Knowledge management and strategic orientation: Leveraging innovativeness and performance
    Alex A. Ferraresi, Carlos O. Quandt, Silvio A. dos Santos, and José R. Frega

    Emerald
    Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate whether knowledge management (KM) contributes to the development of strategic orientation and to enhance innovativeness, and whether these three factors contribute to improve business performance. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 241 Brazilian companies was surveyed, using Web-based questionnaires with 54 questions, using ten-point scales to measure the degree of agreement on each item of each construct. Structural equation modeling techniques were applied for model assessment and analysis of the relationships among constructs. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and path analysis using the technique of structural equation modeling were applied to the data. Findings – Effective KM contributes positively to strategic orientation. Although there is no significant direct effect of KM on innovativeness, the relationship is significant when mediated by strategic orientation. Similarly, effective KM has no direct effect on business performance, but this relationship becomes statistically significant when mediated by strategic orientation and innovativeness. Research limitations/implications – The findings indicate that KM permeates all relationships among the constructs, corroborating the argument that knowledge is an essential organizational resource that leverages all value-creating activities. The results indicate that both KM and innovativeness produce significant impacts on performance when they are aligned with a strategic orientation that enables the organization to anticipate and respond to changing market conditions. Originality/value – There is a substantial body of research on several types of relationships involving KM, strategic orientation, innovativeness and performance. This study offers an original contribution by analyzing all of those constructs simultaneously, using established scales so that comparative studies are possible.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Expectativa e percepo de qualidade em servios: o caso de uma cooperativa de sade do Paran
    L Damasio, AA Ferraresi, VR Moreira
    Revista de Gesto e Secretariado 14 (2), 2235-2256 2023

  • Shared IT infrastructure: an intercooperation model for agricultural cooperatives Infraestrutura de TI compartilhada: um modelo de intercooperao para cooperativas agrcolas
    DJ Diniz, VR Moreira, F Bortoluzzi, AA Ferraresi
    2023

  • Shared IT infrastructure: An intercooperation model for agricultural cooperatives
    DJ Diniz, M Vilar-Rodrguez, F Bortoluzzi, AA Ferraresi
    Navus: Revista de Gesto e Tecnologia, 1-18 2023

  • Organizational innovativeness and innovative performance: a multidimensional model
    CO Quandt, AA Ferraresi, CA Bezerra
    2021

  • South American expert roundtable: increasing adaptive governance capacity for coping with unintended side effects of digital transformation
    G Viale Pereira, E Estevez, D Cardona, C Chesevar, P Collazzo-Yelpo, ...
    Sustainability 12 (2), 718 2020

  • Relationship between innovation and performance in private companies: systematic literature review
    TM Bach, LL Dalazen, WV da Silva, AA Ferraresi, CP da Veiga
    Sage Open 9 (2), 2158244019855847 2019

  • Idea management and innovation programs: practices of large companies in the south region of Brazil
    CO Quandt, HDFN Silva, AA Ferraresi, JR Frega
    International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 18 (2), 187-207 2019

  • Capital structure and regional peculiarities in the agricultural cooperatives of Parana-Brazil.
    JA Rodrigues, GJ Lauermann, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi, A Souza
    2018

  • Estrutura de capital e peculiaridades regionais nas cooperativas agropecurias do Paran-Brasil
    JA Rodrigues, GJ Lauermann, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi, A Souza
    Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural 56, 213-224 2018

  • Relationships among knowledge management, organisational innovativeness and performance: Covariance-based versus partial least-squares structural equation modelling
    JR Frega, AA Ferraresi, CO Quandt, CP Da Veiga
    Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 17 (01), 1850008 2018

  • Inovao tradicional e Design Driven Innovation: semelhanas e diferenas
    AA Ferraresi, A Mesacasa, VSCB Kistmann
    logo 6 (2), 67-83 2017

  • Mtodo para resgate histrico de projetos corporativos: a reconstruo do conhecimento
    BL Lanza, CO Quandt, C Franco, MA Cunha, AA Ferraresi
    CIAIQ 2017 2017

  • Social innovation practices in the regional tourism industry: case study of a cooperative in Brazil
    CO Quandt, AA Ferraresi, C Kudlawicz, J Martins, A Machado
    Social Enterprise Journal 13 (1), 78-94 2017

  • The Influence of Relational Learning of a Transnational Egocentric Network on Innovation Competence for Internationalization
    ASQ Weymer, HT Kato, CP da Veiga, AA Ferraresi
    Modern Applied Science 11 (7), 1-38 2017

  • INOVAO TRADICIONAL E DESIGN DRIVEN INNOVATION
    SE DIFERENAS
    E-REVISTA 2017

  • Evaluating credit union members’ perception of service quality through service innovation
    AF Duarte, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi, A Gerhard
    RAI Revista de Administrao e Inovao 13 (4), 242-250 2016

  • Mecanismos de seguro agropecurio via mutualidade: o caso de uma cooperativa agroindustrial
    PA Machinski, MC Faria, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi
    Revista de Administrao (So Paulo) 51 (3), 266-275 2016

  • Agricultural insurance mechanisms through mutualism: the case of an agricultural cooperative
    PA Machinski, MC de Faria, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi
    Revista de Administrao 51 (3), 266-275 2016

  • Dimensions of organizational innovativeness and its impact on innovation performance: proposition and evaluation of a model
    CO Quandt, CA Bezerra, AA Ferraresi
    Gesto & Produo 22, 873-886 2015

  • Knowledge processes and organizational change: A case study in a non-profit organization
    CF Rocha, AS Zembo, CP Veiga, LC Ducls, CO Quandt, AA Ferrares
    Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 9 (23), 292-303 2015

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Knowledge Management, Innovativeness and Strategic Orientation as drivers of Business Performance: A Survey of Brazilian Companies
    AA Ferraresi, CO Quandt, SA dos Santos, JR Frega
    Jouirnal of Knowledge Management 16 (5), 688-701 2012
    Citations: 349

  • Social innovation practices in the regional tourism industry: case study of a cooperative in Brazil
    CO Quandt, AA Ferraresi, C Kudlawicz, J Martins, A Machado
    Social Enterprise Journal 13 (1), 78-94 2017
    Citations: 56

  • Dimensions of organizational innovativeness and its impact on innovation performance: proposition and evaluation of a model
    CO Quandt, CA Bezerra, AA Ferraresi
    Gesto & Produo 22, 873-886 2015
    Citations: 46

  • Relationship between innovation and performance in private companies: systematic literature review
    TM Bach, LL Dalazen, WV da Silva, AA Ferraresi, CP da Veiga
    Sage Open 9 (2), 2158244019855847 2019
    Citations: 45

  • Programas de gesto de ideias e inovao: as prticas das grandes empresas na regio sul do Brasil
    CO Quandt, HFN Silva, AA Ferraresi, JR Frega
    RAI Revista de Administrao e Inovao 11 (3), 176-199 2014
    Citations: 40

  • South American expert roundtable: increasing adaptive governance capacity for coping with unintended side effects of digital transformation
    G Viale Pereira, E Estevez, D Cardona, C Chesevar, P Collazzo-Yelpo, ...
    Sustainability 12 (2), 718 2020
    Citations: 37

  • Gesto do conhecimento, orientao para o mercado, inovatividade e resultados organizacionais: um estudo em empresas instaladas no Brasil
    AA Ferraresi
    Universidade de So Paulo 2010
    Citations: 35

  • Knowledge management, market orientation, innovativeness and organizational outcomes: a study on companies operating in brazil
    AA Ferraresi, SA Santos, JR Frega, HJ Pereira
    JISTEM-Journal of Information Systems and Technology Management 9, 89-108 2012
    Citations: 33

  • Gesto do Conhecimento: Institucionalizao e prticas nas empresas e instituies
    SA Santos, NP LEITE, AA FERRARESI
    Unicorpore 2007
    Citations: 28

  • Evaluating credit union members’ perception of service quality through service innovation
    AF Duarte, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi, A Gerhard
    RAI Revista de Administrao e Inovao 13 (4), 242-250 2016
    Citations: 27

  • The impacts of Knowledge management on strategic orientation, and innovativeness in organizational outcomes: a survey of companies operating in Brazil
    AA Ferraresi, SA Santos, JR Frega, CO Quandt
    RAM. Revista de Administrao Mackenzie 15, 199-231 2014
    Citations: 23

  • Dimenses da inovatividade e seus impactos no desempenho inovador
    CO QUANDT, AA FERRARESI, CA BEZERRA
    Anais do XXXVII Encontro da Associao Nacional de Ps-graduao e Pesquisa 2013
    Citations: 20

  • Agricultural insurance mechanisms through mutualism: the case of an agricultural cooperative
    PA Machinski, MC de Faria, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi
    Revista de Administrao 51 (3), 266-275 2016
    Citations: 18

  • Idea management and innovation programs: practices of large companies in the south region of Brazil
    CO Quandt, HDFN Silva, AA Ferraresi, JR Frega
    International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 18 (2), 187-207 2019
    Citations: 16

  • Estrutura de capital e peculiaridades regionais nas cooperativas agropecurias do Paran-Brasil
    JA Rodrigues, GJ Lauermann, VR Moreira, AA Ferraresi, A Souza
    Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural 56, 213-224 2018
    Citations: 10

  • Relationships among knowledge management, organisational innovativeness and performance: Covariance-based versus partial least-squares structural equation modelling
    JR Frega, AA Ferraresi, CO Quandt, CP Da Veiga
    Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 17 (01), 1850008 2018
    Citations: 10

  • Knowledge processes and organizational change: A case study in a non-profit organization
    CF Rocha, AS Zembo, CP Veiga, LC Ducls, CO Quandt, AA Ferrares
    Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 9 (23), 292-303 2015
    Citations: 9

  • Reflexes tericas sobre a gesto do conhecimento
    AA Ferraresi, SA Santos
    SANTOS, SA dos et al. Fronteiras da Administrao. Maring: Unicorpore 2006
    Citations: 8

  • Gesto do Conhecimento, Orientao para o Mercado, Inovatividade e Resultados Organizacionais: Um estudo em empresas instaladas no Brasil. 2010. 213f
    AA FERRARESI
    Tese (Doutorado em Administrao)-Programa de Ps-graduao em Administrao 2010
    Citations: 6

  • Gesto do conhecimento, orientao para o mercado, inovatividade e resultados organizacionais: um estudo em empresas instaladas no Brasil. ENCONTRO DA ASSOCIAO NACIONAL DOS
    AA FERRARESI
    Anais... Rio de Janeiro: ANPAD 2010
    Citations: 6