WORK HISTORY
2024 Onwards: Senior Assistant Professor at Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
- 2020-2024: Assistant Professor (Research)
Other engagements during this period:
- 2025: Visiting Professor in University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
- 2023: Visiting Professor in Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- 2021 Onwards: Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Module, Business Core, Sage Publishing, USA
2016-2020: Assistant Professor at Methodology and Statistics Department, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2019-2020: Assistant Professor (UD1)
- 2016-2018: Assistant Professor (UD2)
Other engagements during this period:
- 2019-2020: Visiting Faculty Member at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
2012-2016: PhD Candidate at Institute for Marketing and Communication Management, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Other engagements during this period:
- 2015-2016: Visiting PhD candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- 2014-2014: Visiting PhD candidate at Hanken School Of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
2008-2011: Assistant Manager, HDFC Bank, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
(2021 Onwards). Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics, Business Foundations. Sage Publications.
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS CONDUCTED
2024, 2025: Advanced qualitative research, Africa Business School, Rabat, Morocco
2023: Qualitative methods, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
2023, 2024: Conducting a grounded theory study, Summer School in Social Sciences Methods, Lugano, Switzerland
2022, 2024: Qualitative research seminars, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
2021 onwards: Qualitative research seminars, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
2021: Current qualitative methods in research, SKEMA Business School, Paris, France
2020: Introduction to NVivo 11, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2019: Grounded theory. University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, United Kingdom
2019: Case study research. University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, United Kingdom
2018: Case study research. Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, India
INVITED TALKS
(2025, June). Qualitative research. EURAM Doctoral colloquium, EURAM 2025 Conference, Italy
(2025, March). Combining case study designs. CARMA Webcast lecture, Virtual session, USA
(2023, June). Using digital data in qualitative research. Talk given at the faculty seminar series of Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå, Sweden
(2023, May). Is there such a thing as a good title? Talk given at the ‘Last Monday’ PhD seminar series of Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå, Sweden
(2023, January). Being an academic during the pandemic. Talk given at the ‘Faculty in residence’ series of Sage Publishers, Virtual session, UK
(2021, November). Using outliers for theory building. Talk given at Department of Political Science Semiar Series, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
(2021, July). The university of the future … after the pandemic. Talk given at University of Cape Town Summer School, Virtual session, South Africa
(2020, January). Transparency in qualitative management research. Talk given at SKEMA Business School, Paris, France
(2018, November). “Soft skills: An advantage for women in career?”. Round table discussant at Long Night of Careers, Lugano, Switzerland
(2018, March). “Mentoring in academia”. Talk given at Equal Opportunities Services, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
(2017, June). “Oops, I’ve got an outlier in my data – what now?” A call for using model mis-fit for theory building in management”. Talk given at Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, Coimbatore, India
(2016, November). “I have a PhD. Now what?”. Talk given at Long Night of Careers, Lugano, Switzerland
(2016, August). Deviant Case Method. Talk given at Case Studies: Design, Methods, and Reporting course, 20th Swiss Summer School, Lugano, Switzerland
(2015, September). Anatomy of the highly improbable – A methodological manifesto for analyzing deviant cases in management research. Talk given at Workshop on Innovation, Leadership, and Family Business, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
(2014, September). Transparency in qualitative and quantitative Management field research. Talk given at Department of Management and Organization, Hanken school of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
(2013, December). Deviant Case Method. Talk given at Department of Management and Organization, Hanken school of Economics, Helsinki, Finland
(2013, December). Deviant Case Method. Talk given at Department of Management Studies, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
(2013, April). Case Study Research. Talk given at Institute of Marketing and Management, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
SUPERVISING AND MENTORING ACTIVITIES (PhD LEVEL)
2025 Onwards: PhD Co-supervisor of Ms. Hafsa El Kamous, PhD Candidate, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
2024 Onwards: PhD Co-supervisor of Ms. Faiza Liaqat, PhD Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
2024 Onwards: PhD Co-supervisor of Ms. Camilla Mola, PhD Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
2021 Onwards: PhD supervisor of Ms. Madhavi Dande, PhD Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
2019 – 2021: Mentor of Ms. Monika Maria Maslikowska, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2018 – 2019: Mentor of Ms. Miaotong Yuan, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2017 – 2021: PhD Co-supervisor of Ms. Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
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