Students can propose topics of their choice to the supervisor.
However, some of the Professors are available to supervise students on the following topics:
Paola Giuri - International Management
- Innovative start-ups in manufacturing and service firms
- Internationalization of services: entry modes and collaborations in developed and emerging countries
- Intellectual property and international business in emerging countries
- International business activities of start-ups in manufacturing and services
- Foreign direct investments across emerging and developing countries
Lorenzo Zirulia - Behavioural economics and the functioning of markets
- Bounded rationality, heuristics and cognitive biases on the firms’ side;
- Bounded rationality, heuristics and cognitive biases on the consumers’ side;
- How “rational” firms can exploit boundedly rational consumers.
Selena Aureli - Accounting
- Performance measurement and management control systems
- Sustainability reporting
- Intellectual capital management and disclosure
- Balanced scorecard
- Financial Performance in cross-border acquisitions
Gabriele Pizzi - Customer Relationship Management
- Category management: a consumer-based definition of assortment
- Longitudinal measurement of customer satisfaction
- Sales-force motivation
- Categorization processes and consumer psychology
Salvatore Torrisi - Strategic Management
- Exploitation of innovation by internal and external venturing
- Organizational and strategic factors affecting the survival and growth of startups
- Strategic management of intellectual property assets in manufacturing and service firms
- Open innovation and the markets for ideas: crowdsourcing, online marketplaces and new business models
Riccardo Campione - International Commercial Law
- The harmonization of Commercial Law: instruments and institutions
- The International Sale of Goods in the light of the CISG
- Cross Border Insolvency
- International Commercial Arbitration
Daniele Mascia - Human Resource Management and Leadership
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Characteristics and effects of team diversity in service organizations
- Leadership and Relational Demography
Barbara Petracci - Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Ethical Finance
- Insider Trading
Rebecca Levy Orelli -
- Sustainability reporting
- Integrated reporting
- Performance measurement metrics