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Luisa Gagliardi serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University, with additional research fellowships at ICRIOS (Bocconi) and CEP/SERC (LSE). Previously, she held positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva and Research Fellow at the LSE.
Educational background:
- Ph.D. in Economics, IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca
Her research centers on human capital's role in labor markets, innovation, and entrepreneurship, examining how individual preferences and constraints shape career trajectories, organizational sorting, and venture success. A second research stream investigates business groups, analyzing how geographic dispersion influences corporate strategy and performance through knowledge base complexity.
Recent publications in Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of Economic Geography reveal consistent themes: gender dynamics in entrepreneurship and career advancement, multinational enterprise structures, and labor market impacts of foreign investment. These works bridge strategic management, economic geography, and labor economics through rigorous empirical analysis of cross-border corporate activities.
Scientific recognition:
- Excellence in Research Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (2022)
Dr. Gagliardi leads a major Swiss National Science Foundation project examining multinational corporations' knowledge base complexity and organizational design. Her research integrates corporate strategy with spatial economics to address fundamental questions about global business structures.
- Principal Investigator: SNSF Project 'Multinational Corporations: On the relation between the complexity of the knowledge base and the geographical and functional structure of the business group' (4-year grant)
She actively contributes to ICRIOS at Bocconi University and the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, collaborating on research initiatives that connect economic geography with innovation policy and corporate strategy.
