Paola Andrea Raffaelli

Paola Andrea Raffaelli is a Professor at the IQS School of Management, Ramon Llull University. Her work bridges the fields of Sustainability, Economics, and Ethics, with a focus on institutional and social embeddedness in socioeconomic development.

• Key Research Areas: Social Innovation, Epistemic Justice, Decommodification, Cooperative Play, Meso/Macro Level Dynamics

Her research explores the interplay between democratization and institutional structures in shaping social innovation processes, informed by a Polanyian perspective. Recent projects include the SEE: Sustainability, Economics, and Ethics initiative (2022–2025), involving collaborations with researchers across disciplines and geographies. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including a 2024 editorial on cooperatives as agents of societal transformation.

Notable metrics include an h-index of 2 and 26 citations for her 2022 article. Her 2017 chapter analyzed comparative models of social and solidarity economies in Argentina and the UK.