Prof. Carmelo Cennamo, Ph.D.

Previous Visiting Fellow

Copenhagen Business School

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Carmelo Cennamo is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, and Founding Director of the Digital Markets Competition Forum. His research focuses on competition in digital platform markets and on business ecosystems. Holding a Ph.D. from the IE Business School (Madrid), he is Affiliate Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management and was Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard and Visiting Professor at IE Business School.

Carmelo Cennamo’s work includes C. Cennamo, ‘Towards a Theory of Ecosystems’, in Strategic Management Journal, 39 (2018) 8: 2255–2276; C. Cennamo and J. Santaló, ‘Platform Competition: Strategic Tradeoffs in Platform Markets’, in Strategic Management Journal, 34 (2013) 11: 1331–1350; C. Cennamo and J Santaló, ‘Generativity Tension and Value Creation in Platform Ecosystems’, in Organization Science, 30 (2019) 3. His ongoing projects concern the role of market design and ecosystem orchestration by platform firms and the implications for digital transformation of sectors and competition policy.

Carmelo Cennamo is a member of the CAS Research Group "Platforms as Organizational Forms" of Prof. Dr. Tobias Kretschmer.