Courses a.y. 2025/2026
Biographical note
I am Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, faculty affiliate at Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management (CERGAS), and at Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy (DONDENA).
I hold a PhD in Management Studies from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a MSc in Economics and Management of Public Administrations and International Institutions from Bocconi University.
About
Bocconi Research Profile (2025-27), Research Excellence Award (2024, 2021, 2020)
Organizer of the Healthcare & Technology Research Jam, an academic network of scholars studying technological, professional and organizational dynamics in healthcare.
Bocconi Innovation in Teaching Award (2018)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness, Stanford University (2018)
ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Award - Organization and Management Theory Division (OMT), Academy of Management (2017, 2015, 2012);
European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Best Student Paper Award (2012);
Best Young Researcher Award, Italian Health Economics Association (2012).
ERB Member: Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, Journal of Management Studies
Research interests
I am a social scientist with an interdisciplinary interest in organization theory, public policy and administration, and health care research. I study dynamics of collaboration and change in sectors of public interest, in contexts characterized by ambiguous or competing pressures. In particular, I focus on three research domains: (i) collaborative governance and public-private collaboration; (ii) institutional dynamics, novel technologies and professions; (iii) ambiguity in and around organizations.
Selected Publications
Occupational identity formation in unsaturated spaces: the layered accretion of the American astronaut's identity
ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY, Forthcoming
Responding to professional knowledge disruptions of unmitigable uncertainty: the role of emotions, practices and moral duty among Covid-19 physicians
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Forthcoming
Maintaining strategic ambiguity for protection: struggles over opacity, equivocality and absurdity around the Sicilian Mafia
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Vol. 64, No. 1, 1-37, 2021
From logic acceptance to logic rejection: the process of destabilization in hybrid organizations
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 31 (2), 2020
Ambiguity in organization theory: from intrinsic to strategic perspectives
2023
Trajectories of value generation and capturing by public-private hybrids: mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare
ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 2024
Bridging global mandates and local realities: intermediary clusters and interorganizational collaboration for international development
ORGANIZATION STUDIES, Forthcoming
Cross-level coordination among international organizations: dilemmas and practices
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 96 (4), 2018
Conceptualisation and measurement of healthy ageing: insights from a systematic literature review
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 2025
Implementation of machine learning applications in healthcare organizations: A systematic review of empirical studies
JMIR. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 2024