Valentina De Marchi is Associate Professor at the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at Esade. She holds a PhD in Economics and Management from the University of Padova (2011).

She is interested in understanding how firms can develop environmental innovations in the context of global value chains and international businesses. She has conducted research on circular economy and digital 4.0 technologies, on the tensions and paradoxes in environmental innovations, on local development and sustainability practices, especially in the context of SMEs within industrial districts. She is author or co-author of more than 54 Scopus articles published in journals such as Research Policy, Business Strategy & the Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Production Economics, Economic Geography.

She edited special issues in journals such California Management Review and co-edited the book Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Linking Actors and Territories Through Manufacturing and Innovation. She is Associate editors at Journal of Industrial and Business Economics and serves in the editorial boards of Organization & Environment and Journal of International Business Studies and starting 2023 is deputy editor of the Journal of International Business Policy.

Role

She collaborates with the Responsible Innovation special focus topic.