Ricardo Costa Climent
PhD student at Department of Informatics and Media
- E-mail:
- ricardo.costacliment@im.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum (plan 3)
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Dr Ricardo COSTA CLIMENT is a PhD in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University. He is also an adjunct lecturer. He obtained advanced degrees in Economics and Law and served more than two decades as a legal advisor. Ricardo’s doctoral dissertation focused on economic firms' value creation through artificial intelligence, specifically predictive AI.
Keywords
- actor network theory
- artifical intelligence
- business model
- data network effects
- evolutionary theory
Biography
Biography
Dr Ricardo COSTA CLIMENT is a PhD in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics & Media, Uppsala University. He is also an adjunct lecturer. He obtained advanced degrees in Economics and Law and served more than two decades as a legal advisor. Ricardo’s doctoral dissertation focused on economic firms' value creation through artificial intelligence, specifically predictive AI.
He has studied various disciplines, including digital retail, omnichannel, law, and economics, among others. His graduate studies have taken him to various universities in Spain, Austria, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Economics and Business in Law in Economic and Financial Management in the University Research Training and tax consulting program.
Before joining Uppsala University, I served as an early career researcher at Linnaeus University, Sweden, in the context of an EU-funded position within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Training Network program. Before returning to academia, he spent 22 years as a Lawyer and Tax Advisor and then as a public servant in the Valencian Government in Spain.
He is serving as a reviewer in several journals and international conferences, and as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Business Accounting and Finance Perspectives and ESIC Market.

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, p. 935-967, 2024
- DOI for Value creation and appropriation from the use of machine learning: a study of start-ups using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
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Intelligent Transformation: Navigating the AI Revolution in Business and Technology
Part of Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation, p. 19-40, Springer, 2024
On how Firms can use Artificial Intelligence for Economic Value Creation: A Business Model Approach
2024
Part of Management Decision, p. 2085-2110, 2024
Firms' use of predictive artificial intelligence for economic value creation and appropriation
Part of International Journal of Information Management, 2024
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AI-enabled business models for competitive advantage
Part of Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, 2024
- DOI for AI-enabled business models for competitive advantage
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Part of ESIC Market, 2024
- DOI for Omnichannel-based value creation through the activation of business model themes: A multi-case exploration of retail firms
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Part of ESIC Digital Economy and Innovation Journal, 2023
Part of International Journal of Information Management, 2023
- DOI for Using machine learning to create and capture value in the business models of small and medium-sized enterprises
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Part of Journal of Business Research, 2023
- DOI for A pathway to bypassing market entry barriers from data network effects: A case study of a start-up's use of machine learning
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Part of Journal of Business Research, 2023
- DOI for Five dimensions of business model innovation: A multi-case exploration of industrial incumbent firm's business model transformations
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Value Creation through Machine Learning Using Data Network Effects
Part of Academy of Management Proceedings 2022:1, 2022
Value creation through omnichannel practices for multi-actor customers: an evolutionary view
Part of Journal of Enterprising Communities, p. 93-118, 2022
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The Role of Machine Learning in Creating and Capturing Value
Part of International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, p. 1-19, 2022
Financing Start-Ups Through Artificial Intelligence
Part of Financing Startups, p. 149-162, Springer, 2022
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology (MGMT), p. 8-9, 2022
Value creation through the evolution of business model themes
Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 353-361, 2021
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Business model theory-based prediction of digital technology use: An empirical assessment
Part of Technological forecasting & social change, 2021
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Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 196-205, 2021
- DOI for How machine learning activates data network effects in business models: Theory advancement through an industrial case of promoting ecological sustainability
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Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 115-127, 2021
- DOI for CO2 reduction through digital transformation in long-haul transportation: Institutional entrepreneurship to unlock product-service system innovation
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Recent publications
Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models: a theoretical integration
Part of The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2025
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Part of The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, p. 935-967, 2024
- DOI for Value creation and appropriation from the use of machine learning: a study of start-ups using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
- Download full text (pdf) of Value creation and appropriation from the use of machine learning: a study of start-ups using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Intelligent Transformation: Navigating the AI Revolution in Business and Technology
Part of Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation, p. 19-40, Springer, 2024
On how Firms can use Artificial Intelligence for Economic Value Creation: A Business Model Approach
2024
Part of Management Decision, p. 2085-2110, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models: a theoretical integration
Part of The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2025
- DOI for Business ecosystems as a way to activate lock-in in business models: a theoretical integration
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Part of The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, p. 935-967, 2024
- DOI for Value creation and appropriation from the use of machine learning: a study of start-ups using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
- Download full text (pdf) of Value creation and appropriation from the use of machine learning: a study of start-ups using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Part of Management Decision, p. 2085-2110, 2024
Firms' use of predictive artificial intelligence for economic value creation and appropriation
Part of International Journal of Information Management, 2024
- DOI for Firms' use of predictive artificial intelligence for economic value creation and appropriation
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AI-enabled business models for competitive advantage
Part of Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, 2024
- DOI for AI-enabled business models for competitive advantage
- Download full text (pdf) of AI-enabled business models for competitive advantage
Part of ESIC Market, 2024
- DOI for Omnichannel-based value creation through the activation of business model themes: A multi-case exploration of retail firms
- Download full text (pdf) of Omnichannel-based value creation through the activation of business model themes: A multi-case exploration of retail firms
Part of ESIC Digital Economy and Innovation Journal, 2023
Part of International Journal of Information Management, 2023
- DOI for Using machine learning to create and capture value in the business models of small and medium-sized enterprises
- Download full text (pdf) of Using machine learning to create and capture value in the business models of small and medium-sized enterprises
Part of Journal of Business Research, 2023
- DOI for A pathway to bypassing market entry barriers from data network effects: A case study of a start-up's use of machine learning
- Download full text (pdf) of A pathway to bypassing market entry barriers from data network effects: A case study of a start-up's use of machine learning
Part of Journal of Business Research, 2023
- DOI for Five dimensions of business model innovation: A multi-case exploration of industrial incumbent firm's business model transformations
- Download full text (pdf) of Five dimensions of business model innovation: A multi-case exploration of industrial incumbent firm's business model transformations
Value creation through omnichannel practices for multi-actor customers: an evolutionary view
Part of Journal of Enterprising Communities, p. 93-118, 2022
- DOI for Value creation through omnichannel practices for multi-actor customers: an evolutionary view
- Download full text (pdf) of Value creation through omnichannel practices for multi-actor customers: an evolutionary view
The Role of Machine Learning in Creating and Capturing Value
Part of International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, p. 1-19, 2022
Part of Management of Innovation and Technology (MGMT), p. 8-9, 2022
Value creation through the evolution of business model themes
Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 353-361, 2021
- DOI for Value creation through the evolution of business model themes
- Download full text (pdf) of Value creation through the evolution of business model themes
Business model theory-based prediction of digital technology use: An empirical assessment
Part of Technological forecasting & social change, 2021
- DOI for Business model theory-based prediction of digital technology use: An empirical assessment
- Download full text (pdf) of Business model theory-based prediction of digital technology use: An empirical assessment
Part of Journal of Business Research, p. 196-205, 2021
- DOI for How machine learning activates data network effects in business models: Theory advancement through an industrial case of promoting ecological sustainability
- Download full text (pdf) of How machine learning activates data network effects in business models: Theory advancement through an industrial case of promoting ecological sustainability
Part of Industrial Marketing Management, p. 115-127, 2021
- DOI for CO2 reduction through digital transformation in long-haul transportation: Institutional entrepreneurship to unlock product-service system innovation
- Download full text (pdf) of CO2 reduction through digital transformation in long-haul transportation: Institutional entrepreneurship to unlock product-service system innovation
Chapters in book
Intelligent Transformation: Navigating the AI Revolution in Business and Technology
Part of Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation, p. 19-40, Springer, 2024
Financing Start-Ups Through Artificial Intelligence
Part of Financing Startups, p. 149-162, Springer, 2022
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Value Creation through Machine Learning Using Data Network Effects
Part of Academy of Management Proceedings 2022:1, 2022