Biographical note
I am full professor in Strategic Management and Organization. From the 1st of November 2008 to October 2012 I have acted as Vice-Rector for Research at Bocconi University.
Chairman of the Institute of Organization and MIS at Bocconi from 2001 to 2007. I have been the Director of the Organization and Human Resource Management Department of SDA, Bocconi University School of Management from 1995 to 2001. I taught at the University of Cassino, Italy for five years (1994-1999).
Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia Aziendale (Italian PhD equivalent, in Business Administration), 1988, Bocconi University. PhD Thesis: "The Design of Organizational Structure".
Research interests
Trust within and between organizations; Organizational Behavior: influence, emotions, stress, engagement; Leadership; Strategy formulation and implementation; Organizational design; Change management
Selected Publications
Does trust matter? Exploring the effects of interorganizational and interpersonal trust on performance
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 1998
“Some Conceptual and Research Barriers to the Utilization of Knowledge”
CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 1998
The Strategic Value of Buyer-Supplier Relationships
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PURCHASING AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT, 1998
Introduction to the Special Issue on Trust in an Organizational Context
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2003
Free to Be Trusted? Organizational Constraints on Trust in Boundary Spanners
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, 2003
Cooperation among competitors as status-seeking behavior: network ties and status differentiation
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2011
Sympathy for The Devil? Reflections on the Perils of Institutionalizing Trust Research
JOURNAL OF TRUST RESEARCH, 2013