FERDINANDO PENNAROLA

Born March 16th, 1963. Degree in Business Administration from Università Bocconi. PhD in Business Administration and Management, Università Bocconi. International Teachers Program, Centre HEC-ISA a Jouy-en-Josas, France.

Associate Professor of Organization and Management Information Systems. Senior faculty member of the SDA Bocconi Organisation and Human Resources Management Department. Teacher of various Master programs of Università Bocconi and SDA Bocconi. Visiting assistant professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Contract professor of organization and management at the Università degli Studi di Bergamo and at the Istituto Universitario Navale di Napoli. Chairman of the Board of ISBM (International Schools of Business Management), London

The adoption of information technology in organizations. IS spending. Organization and management in high-technology service companies. Organization and management of professional services firms. Learning processes and new technologies.

Economia e organizzazione delle attività terziarie, Milano: Etas, 1995; "Service Management" (ed.), in Sviluppo & organizzazione, 1993; "Valorizzare le persone", in Salvemini and Piantoni (eds.), Gestire persone e idee nel terziario avanzato, Milano: EGEA, 1991; "La gestione dei professional: esempi dalle aziende del terziario avanzato", in Costa (ed.), Manuale di gestione del personale, Torino: UTET, 1992; "La pianificazione del personale nelle imprese di servizi professionali", in Sviluppo & organizzazione, vol. 127, 1991; "Shared Values and Organizational Forms in Management Consulting Firms", presented at Knowledge Workers in Contemporary Organizations, Lancaster University, 1993; "From Instructor - Centered to Student Centered Learning: Designing Virtual Business Learning Environments",  in International Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Hong Kong, 1997; Monopolio e concorrenza nelle telecomunicazioni (with C.M. Guerci et al.), Milano: Il Sole 24 Ore, 1998; Le professioni intellettuali tra liberalizzazione e nuove regolazioni (with L. Sacconi, B. Bortolotti, C. Vaccà), Milano: EGEA, 1999; Net Impact: l'impatto della rete sul sistema produttivo italiano (with F. Giavazzi), Cisco Systems, 2002; K. Laudon, J. Laudon, Management dei sistemi informativi, Pearson - Prentice Hall, edizione italiana (ed., with V. Morabito), 2003. With Magni M., L. Caporarello, S. Basaglia, Environmental and organizational drivers influencing the adoption of VoIP Information Systems and E-Business Management, Springer, 2008. With Magni M., Intra-organizational relationships and technology acceptance, International Journal of Information Management, 2008.  With Basaglia, S., Caporarello, L., Magni, M., Individual Adoption of Convergent Mobile Technologies in Italy, Review of Managerial Science, 2008. Con Caporarello L. Combining High Performance IT And Hr Management, Encyclopedia of Human Resources and IT: Challenges in e-HRM, IGI Global Publishing, May 2008. "Business Schools International Networks for Faculty Development" in Teaching and Learning at Business Schools: Transforming the Delivery of Business Education edited by M. Bild, P. Mårtensson, K.Nilsson, Gower Publishing Ltd, UK, Gower, July 2008. With Basaglia, S., Caporarello, L., Magni, M., Individual adoption of convergent mobile technologies in Italy. In D’Atri, A.: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies. Springer Berlin, 2008