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Eleonora Di Maria is a prominent researcher specializing in Industry 4.0 technologies, digital transformation, and their implications for firm performance, labor productivity, and circular economy practices. Her work sits at the intersection of innovation management, industrial economics, and sustainability, making significant contributions to our understanding of how emerging technologies reshape modern enterprises. Di Maria's most impactful contribution examines how Industry 4.0 technologies can serve as catalysts for circular economy adoption through a knowledge management lens, garnering 32 citations since 2020. Equally influential is her nuanced investigation into whether Industry 4.0 genuinely transforms labor productivity, with a particular focus on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) — a critically underrepresented segment in existing literature — accumulating 29 citations. This commitment to filling research gaps is a hallmark of her scholarship. Drawing extensively on Italian firm-level data, Di Maria has pioneered empirical approaches to measuring the financial and productivity returns of digital technology investments, providing practitioners and policymakers with evidence-based insights. Her sustained focus on SMEs is especially valuable, ensuring that digital transformation research extends beyond large corporations to address the realities facing the broader business ecosystem.