Topic of thesis: Global Strategies and Competitiveness of Italian Companies

Research interests:
Labor Offshoring, Relocation Strategies, Competition and Innovation, Global Value Chain, Global Production Chain, Corporate Social Responsibility, Efficiency and Effectiveness Metrics in Operations Management Strategy, Sharing Economy, Public Transportation Systems Management and Implementation, Transportation Economics, Mobility Management, Public Policy.
GLOBAL STRATEGIES, INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS OF ITALIAN FIRMS
The primary objective of this research is to define the main patterns of globalization of Italian companies. The relocation dilemma origins from few basic considerations: direct and indirect costs. Several factors motivate the industrial offshoring plans, including strategic reasons and know-how, together with costs, delivering deadline of the finished products, logistics and country accessibility (Visa permits, flight times, time zones, existing transport infrastructure). The recent trend in manufacturing is that of firms fragmenting their production processes geographically at an international level, with the intent of slashing the importance of labour, not to mention social and welfare costs. The consequences of international outsourcing for wage inequality, also called labour arbitrage, in industrialized countries have been intensively studied. Lack of foreign labour laws greatly magnetizes Western investment like a bear to honey. Citing the comment of N.Gregory Mankiw, "labor off-shoring can be considered scandalous or even such as the Far West conquest, or better still the third Industrial Revolution".
ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY, LABOUR MARKETS, WORLD OF WORK AND SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC REGULATION
The wide field of economic sociology is broadly defined as the study of the social processes of resource creation, distribution, exchange and consumption. My research and professional interests related to the applied social sciences are focusing on work, employment, and labor policy issues and practices of national and international significance. Such studies cover many areas that shape the working world and contribute to an organization’s success in a global economy. These include human resource management; labor-management relations; labor economics; organizational behaviour; international and comparative labor; labor and industrial relations, labor law and history; conflict resolution; management development; international mobility of workers and migrations; diversity management; employment and disability; and social statistics; not to mention welfare, education, policy-making at national level as well as EU and international level.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, REWARD STRATEGIES FOR EXECUTIVE AND BOARD MEMBER
Executive pay remains a contentious topic for many organizations. Different approaches to the question of executive remuneration are found in the academic literature. Do top managers use their position to extract rents disguised as incentive pay, and that governance processes are not a match for executive power (Bratton W., 2005)? If most man do rate their selves at the highest value they can, there should be someone, not the seller, but the buyer who determines the price. Being a director now is a very great responsibility, more then in the past. The analysis I am carrying out is focused on both the main listed companies and MNCs as well, covering all aspects of corporate pay. On the side of the  remuneration committee, mathematical tools are used to determine on a scientific basis sophisticated pay, with the final goal of preserving company's assets, fostering profits, while encouraging top managers' retention and performance.
SMART CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Service management is the way to developing successful services for citizens, bearing in mind that transportation economics and logistics, not to cite statistics and customer satisfaction, are among my main research objects. City-wide urban infrastructures are increasingly reliant on network technology to improve and expand their services. As a consequence, our interactions in the physical world are increasingly leaving behind digital footprints. In my previous research, I explored how these digital footprints can reveal otherwise latent patterns of human behaviour as well as implications for the improvement of city infrastructures themselves (e.g., shared bicycling programs, car sharing, rail and bus systems).

Graduated from:
1. University of Milan, BSc in Organization and  Human Resources Management;
2. University of Milan, MSc in Labor Science, International Labor and Social Policies;
3. The London School of Economics and Political Science, European Masters in Labour Studies

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