Courses a.y. 2024/2025
I teach courses in management of public sector organizations, healthcare management and I qualitative research methods.
Biographical note
After receiving a degree in Biology from the University of Pavia, I moved to Vienna, Austria for a PhD in Genetics working on cancer genetics at the Institute of Molecular Pathology. After my PhD (1995-2000) I spent my post-doctoral fellowship at Cancer Research UK, in London, where I worked on the genetics of development (2000-2004). I then decided that it was time to shift to the social sciences, and, in order to gain new knowledge, I attended the Master in International Health Management, Economics and Policy (MIHMEP) at Bocconi University (2006). The course made me certain that studying public management and, in particular its applications to the healthcare sector, was exactly what I wanted to do.
About
Since 2023 Director, Center for Research in Health and Social Care Management (CeRGAS), SDABocconi School of Management
2018-2022 Academic Director, World Bachelor in Business (WBB), in collaboration with USC Marshall and HKUST
Since September 2015 Associate Professor in the Dept. of Social and Political Sciences (SPS), Bocconi University
Assistant Professor (2009-2015) in the Dept. of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University
Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Administration and Healthcare (2008-2009), Bocconi University
Since March 2006 Affiliate to the Center for Research in Health and Social Care Management (CeRGAS)
Research interests
Healthcare management, policy and management issues related to innovations in healthcare, professional dynamics in healthcare organizations
Working papers
Social control agents and the evolving definition of wrongdoing: The case of the gray area around the mafia
In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Eds C. Gabbioneta, M. Clemente, R. Greenword), in press
Selected Publications
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
Unpacking hybridity: development and first validation of a multidimensional instrument to profile hybrid professionals
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Forthcoming
Trajectories of value generation and capturing by public-private hybrids: mechanisms of multi-level governance in healthcare
ORGANIZATION STUDIES, 2024
Patient characteristics associated with the acceptability of teleconsultation: a retrospective study of osteoporotic patients post-COVID-19
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, 2023
Social control agents and the evolving definition of wrongdoing: the case of the gray area around the mafia
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Volume on Wrongdoing, misconduct, and scandals, Forthcoming
Corona-regionalism? Differences in regional responses to COVID-19 in Italy
HEALTH POLICY, Vol 125, Issue 9, 1179-1187, 2021
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
Response to COVID-19: Was Italy (un)prepared?
Health Economics, Policy and Law, 1-13, 2021
When peers count: the effects on integrated type II diabetes care of communication within general practitioner-only subgroups in interprofessional primary care teams
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 44(1):67-78, 2017
How early implementations influence later adoptions of innovation: social positioning and skill reproduction in the diffusion of robotic surgery
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 58, 1, 242-278, 2015
Governing through evidence: a study of technological innovation in health care
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY, 24, 4, 843-877, 2014
Multi-professional primary care units: what affects theclinical performance of Italian general practitioners?
MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW, 71, 4, 315-336, 2014
Sustaining Universal Health Coverage: The Interaction of Social, Political, and Economic Sustainability
VALUE IN HEALTH, 16,1, supplement, S34-S38, 2013
Implementing performance-based funding for health research: when governance and procedural fairness matter
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 90: 313-334, 2012
Explaining the unexpected success of the smoking ban in Italy: Political strategy and transition to practice, 2000-2005
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 88: 819–835, 2010