[HTML][HTML] Growth hacking: A critical review to clarify its meaning and guide its practical application

A Bargoni, G Santoro, AM Petruzzelli… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
There is an increasing recognition among academics and practitioners that growth hacking
provides a means to bridge the gap between strategy definition and strategy …

Challenges and opportunities in the digitalization of the B2B customer journey

S Andersson, U Aagerup, L Svensson… - Journal of business & …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to explore challenges and opportunities in the digitalization of the
business-to-business (B2B) customer journey in different buying situations. It also …

Growth hacking and international dynamic marketing capabilities: a conceptual framework and research propositions

A Bargoni, F Jabeen, G Santoro… - International Marketing …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Few studies have conceptualized how companies can build and nurture
international dynamic marketing capabilities (IDMCs) by implementing growth hacking …

[HTML][HTML] Highway to hell or paradise city? Exploring the role of growth hacking in learning from innovation failure

A Bargoni, L Smrčka, G Santoro, A Ferraris - Technovation, 2024 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the role of growth hacking, a data-driven
iterative experimentation process, in minimizing the likelihood of innovation failure within …

[HTML][HTML] Growth hacking: A scientific approach for data-driven decision making

M Cristofaro, PL Giardino, L Barboni - Journal of Business Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Today's businesses necessitate data-driven decisions to continuously adapt (and even
shape) their environment to stay competitive. Growth hacking, with its emphasis on …

[HTML][HTML] Wielding a double-edged sword: Unravelling the development of dynamic capabilities through growth hacking

C Gerlich, K Brenk, JL Antonio, DK Kanbach… - Journal of Business …, 2025 - Elsevier
Rapid scaling amidst resource constraints is crucial for established firms and startups in
today's business landscape. Despite its increasing popularity and research interest, little is …

Consumer Behaviour in Growth Hacking: Developing and Validating the Shareability Construct

K Sallaku, A Avloniti, S Magrizos, Š Vilamová… - Journal of Business …, 2025 - Elsevier
Stemming from the explosion of companies' social data and digital transformation, growth
hacking has emerged as a process of rapid experimentation to achieve sustainable …

The “capitalism without capital era”: exploring intellectual capital impact on SMEs growth hacking capability

S Bresciani, D Giordino, C Troise - Journal of Intellectual Capital, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Although a growing number of companies are using growth hacking (GH) to grow
their businesses, scholars know little about its operationalization, namely through growth …

From insight to impact: Unravelling the dynamics of big data-backed growth hacking

V Kumar, S Kumar, R Chaudhuri, S Chatterjee… - Journal of Business …, 2025 - Elsevier
The rise of growth hacking, fuelled by big data analytics, poses a challenge for scholars and
executives alike, with limited research at their intersection. This article aims to fill the …

Growth hacking adoption in focus: Developing scale and enhancing the nomological network of its antecedents

S Bani-Melhem, MW Akhtar, N Zahoor, A Khalid… - Journal of Business …, 2025 - Elsevier
Given the importance of growth hacking for the long-term success of businesses and the
lack of empirical research, we draw on dynamic capability theory to propose a model that …