Valeria Giacomin

Assistant Professor
Knowledge groupEconomics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Research domainsEconomics
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Biography

Valeria Giacomin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università Bocconi. Previously she held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Business School and Marshall Business School (USC).  

Her research focuses on global history of commodity markets in Southeast Asia; clusters in historical perspective; and business history of emerging markets since the 19th century. Recently she started new projects on historical entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems in different historical and geographical contexts. Her work has been published in Business History, Enterprise & Society, MOH, Journal of Global History and Journal of Business Ethics.   

She got her PhD from Copenhagen Business School with a thesis on the development of the palm oil cluster in Southeast Asia since colonial times. 

Recent Publications

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  • 2025
    Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–1988
    CALABRESE, M., V. GIACOMIN, "Business-Government Networks in Small States: The Emergence and Evolution of the Luxembourg Global Mutual Fund Industry, 1945–1988", Business History Review, 2025, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 39-66
  • 2025
    Piccoli Stati, zone grigie e paradossi europei
    CALABRESE, M., V. GIACOMIN, "Piccoli Stati, zone grigie e paradossi europei", Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 October 2025
  • 2025
    How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)
    GIACOMIN, V., F. ROMAGNOLI, "How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)", Journal of Management Studies, 2025
  • 2024
    Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship
    RAM, H., V. GIACOMIN, C. WAKSLAK, "Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship", Business History, 2024, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 364-385
  • 2024
    Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s
    GIACOMIN, V., C. LUBINSKI, "Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s", Business History, 2024, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 1888-1915
  • 2023
    Perspectives on oral history for historical research
    GIACOMIN, V., "Perspectives on oral history for historical research" in Handbook of Historical Methods for Management., Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster, Elena Giovannoni (Eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 9, pp. 121-139, 2023
  • 2022
    Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality
    GIACOMIN, V., G. JONES, "Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality", Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, vol. 180, no. 1, pp. 263–282
  • 2022
    Deglobalization and alternative futures
    JONES, G., V. GIACOMIN - "Deglobalization and alternative futures" - 2022, Harvard Business Publishing, United States of America
  • 2021
    Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
    LUBINSKI, C., V. GIACOMIN, K. SCHNITZER, "Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)", Business History, 2021, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 72-97
  • 2021
    Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s
    GIACOMIN, V., G. JONES, E. H. SALVAJ, "Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s", Business History, 2021, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 1113-1143

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