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Available topics for the final examination

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