Luisa Gagliardi
Assistant Professor
Biography
Luisa Gagliardi is an Assistant Professor at Università Bocconi in the Department of Management and Technology since September 2019. She is also Research Fellow at ICRIOS (Bocconi) & CEP/SERC (LSE). Before joining Bocconi, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva and Research Fellow at the LSE.
She is the Principal Investigator of a 4-years project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) titled "Multinational Corporations: On the relation between the complexity of the knowledge base and the geographical and functional structure of the business group". Her research focuses on the role of human capital in shaping labor market, innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. Among others, she studies how individual preferences and constraints relate to individual decisions and ultimately affect career progression, sorting across projects and organizations, or ventures’ success. Her second stream of research looks at the functioning of business groups and how their geographic structure relates to corporate strategy and performance. She is the author of numerous articles on her topics of interest. Her works have been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, and Papers in Regional Science, among others.
She has a Ph.D. in Economics from IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Female Entrepreneurs Targeting Women: Strategic Redirection Under Scientific Decision-Making
GAGLIARDI, L., E. NOVELLI, "Female Entrepreneurs Targeting Women: Strategic Redirection Under Scientific Decision-Making", Organization Science, 2025, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 718-736 - 2025
Newborn Gender and Technology Adoption Among Rural Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia
GAGLIARDI, L., V. PELUCCO, S. DI FALCO, "Newborn Gender and Technology Adoption Among Rural Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia" in The 85th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, July 25-29, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2025
The Gendered “Ratchet Effect” in Commuting-to-Work After Covid-19: Evidence from Cellular Phone Data
D'ANGELO, V., L. GAGLIARDI, M. MARIANI, "The Gendered “Ratchet Effect” in Commuting-to-Work After Covid-19: Evidence from Cellular Phone Data" in The 85th Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, July 25-29, 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2025
The ‘internal’ geography of multi-unit firms
GAGLIARDI, L., "The ‘internal’ geography of multi-unit firms", Journal of Economic Geography, 2025 - 2024
The world’s rust belts: The heterogeneous employment effects of deindustrialisation
GAGLIARDI, L., E. MORETTI, M. SERAFINELLI, "The world’s rust belts: The heterogeneous employment effects of deindustrialisation", VoxEU - CEPR, 3 April 2024 - 2024
Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, S. BRESCHI, "Temporal Availability and Women Career Progression: Evidence from Cross-Time-Zone Acquisitions", Organization Science, 2024, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 2178-2197 - 2023
Is it a Match? Training Entrepreneurs to Make Decisions Favors the Prepared Mind
FROSI, C., M. MARIANI, L. GAGLIARDI, "Is it a Match? Training Entrepreneurs to Make Decisions Favors the Prepared Mind" in 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 4-8 August, 2023, Boston, United States of America - 2022
Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, "Trained to lead: Evidence from industrial research", Strategic Management Journal, 2022, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 847-871 - 2022
Near and Far: R&D Strategies of Business Groups
GAGLIARDI, L., N. DUTT, G. SPANOS, "Near and Far: R&D Strategies of Business Groups" in 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - August 5-9, 2022, Seattle, WA, United States of America - 2021
Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression
GAGLIARDI, L., M. MARIANI, S. BRESCHI, D. HOVY, "Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression" in 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), 30 July-3 August, 2021, (online)
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Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2022
