DiVito leads the Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship professorship. She is also the Research Director for the Amsterdam School of International Business. Her research interests focus on understanding the dynamics of multi-stakeholder collaboration and inter-organizational relations, including their formation, governance, and internationalization, in the context of innovation and sustainability. Her recent projects have focused on longitudinal studies in the textile and fashion industry. The Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD) project aimed to understand how competitors collaborate together to improve sustainability impact. Her current project, Collaborative Networks for Sustainability (CONESU), investigates the role of orchestration to create and capture value from multi-stakeholder initiatives.

 

She has published her work in international peer-reviewed journals such as Organization & Environment, Business & Society, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Proceedings, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, and Small Business Economics. She presents her work at various academic conferences in Europe and the USA. She received her PhD in organizational studies from Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Prior to that, she acquired extensive work experience in strategy and marketing for multinational firms.