Fabio Neves Da Rocha
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Dr Fabio Neves Da Rocha

  

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Digital Transformation at Edinburgh Napier University Business School. I hold a PhD in Business Management from the University of Edinburgh Business School, along with an MRes in Business Administration, an Executive MBA, and a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration.

Before transitioning into academia, I built a career of more than 25 years in the IT industry, taking on technical and leadership roles across companies of all sizes. My experience spans large multinational corporations such as SAP, HP, and IBM, as well as medium-sized enterprises and start-ups. This professional background shapes my academic approach, as I strive to bridge the gap between scholarly research and real-world practice at the intersection of digital technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

My research focuses on digital innovation and organisational transformation, with a particular emphasis on digital platforms—especially ERPs—and their various dimensions, including platform ecosystems, governance, adoption, and diffusion.

I have presented my work at leading international conferences in Information Systems and related fields. Additionally, I contribute to the academic community as an ad-hoc reviewer for journals such as Information & Organization, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, among others.

I am open to doctoral supervision.

Esteem

Fellowships and Awards

  • Higher Education Academy Fellow

 

Date


15 results

Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation

Journal Article
Gerli, P., Neves da Rocha, F., & Mora, L. (2025)
Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, Article 126. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04320-7
The Covid-19 pandemic has further evidenced the potential of grassroots actors as initiators of digital innovations, in the form of open-source applications, platform cooperat...

World Smart Cities Outlook 2024

Report
Gerli, P., Mora, L., Neves Da Rocha, F., & Nguyen, H. (2024)
World Smart Cities Outlook 2024. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat
The World Smart Cities Outlook 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of people-centred smart city development globally. Serving as a foundational referen...

Ecosystem Orchestration for Innovation: Interrelations of Mechanisms in Infrastructural Digital Platforms

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neves Da Rocha, F., Pollock, N., & Mora, L. (2024, September)
Ecosystem Orchestration for Innovation: Interrelations of Mechanisms in Infrastructural Digital Platforms. Paper presented at 7th Innovation in Information Infrastructures (III) Workshop, Barcelona, Spain

Disappointing Innovation: How Political Action Influenced Innovations During COVID-19 Pandemic

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neves Da Rocha, F., Falisse, J.-B., McAteer, B., & Mora, L. (2024, June)
Disappointing Innovation: How Political Action Influenced Innovations During COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper presented at R&D Management Conference 2024, Stockholm, Sweden

Innovating in Times of Crisis: Public Health Emergencies, National Security, and The Anti-Affordance Effect

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Falisse, J.-B., McAteer, B., Mora, L., & Neves Da Rocha, F. (2023, October)
Innovating in Times of Crisis: Public Health Emergencies, National Security, and The Anti-Affordance Effect. Paper presented at Technological Forecasting & Social Change Special Conference (TFSC 2023), Hsinchu, Taiwan

Balancing Competition and Cooperation in Innovation Ecosystems: the Role of Social Design

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazantsev, N., & Neves Da Rocha, F. (2022, July)
Balancing Competition and Cooperation in Innovation Ecosystems: the Role of Social Design. Paper presented at R&D Management Conference 2022, Trento, Italy

Orchestration mechanisms for innovation in inverted firms

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neves Da Rocha, F., & Pollock, N. (2021, October)
Orchestration mechanisms for innovation in inverted firms. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2021), Toronto, Canada
Competition today is progressively fostering innovation processes around digital platforms. As a result, it is argued that organisations are changing the locus where innovatio...

The origin of digital platform organising visions

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neves Da Rocha, F., & Pollock, N. (2021, July)
The origin of digital platform organising visions. Paper presented at 37th EGOS Colloquium (EGOS 2021), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antecedents of Digital Platform Organising Visions

Conference Proceeding
Neves da Rocha, F., & Pollock, N. (2020)
Antecedents of Digital Platform Organising Visions. In B. Metri, S. K. Sharma, N. P. Rana, & Y. K. Dwivedi (Eds.), Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation (126-137
Organising vision theory has been increasingly used in Information Systems (IS) scholarship to study how IT innovations are adopted, used, and diffused. Although providing com...

Innovating in Digital Platforms: An Integrative Approach

Conference Proceeding
Neves da Rocha, F., & Pollock, N. (2019)
Innovating in Digital Platforms: An Integrative Approach. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS (505-515). https://doi.org/10.5220/0007711105050515
Increasing competitive pressures are leading companies to innovate through digital platforms. The dominant theme within extant research on innovation in these platforms concep...