WORK HISTORY
2020 Onwards: Assistant Professor (Research) at Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
Other engagements during this period:
- 2022: Contract Professor at University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- 2021 Onwards: Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics Module, Business Core, Sage Publishing, USA
- 2021 Onwards: Contract Professor at University of Genova, Genova, Italy
- 2021-2021: Temporary Professor at SKEMA Business School, Paris, France
2016-2020: Assistant Professor at Methodology and Statistics Department, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- 2019-2020: Assistant Professor (Senior: 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
(2015, May). Methodological Pluralism for theory development in Industrial Marketing. Editorial Assistant for Industrial Marketing Management journal Special Issue
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS CONDUCTED
2022: Qualitative research seminars, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
2021-2022: 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
SERVICE AND ORGANIZING EXPERIENCE
2023 Onwards: Head’s delegate for the coordination of the LUISS Teaching Cases project
2022 Onwards: Free Mover and Summer School delegate professor for the Business and Management area in LUISS Guido Carli
2020-2022: Co-ordinator of LUISS Unit of PRODIGEES (transnational knowledge cooperation network funded by Horizon 2020 Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange), LUISS Guido Carli
2020 Onwards: Member of Erasmus Plus Commission, representing Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli
2020-2022: Organizer of DIM Breakfast Virtual Meetings, Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli
2018-2019: Organizer of Qualitative Reading Group, Methodology and Statistics Department, Utrecht University
2015-2016: Founding member of Laboratory of Science communication (LABCS), Inter institute research center at Università della Svizzera italiana
INVITED RESEARCH VISITS
(2018, May). University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
INVITED TALKS
(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
BACHELOR PROGRAM RESTRUCTURING
(2018, March): Restructuring of the qualitative part of Course 2, Bachelor program- Toepassing van onderzoeksmethoden en statistiek (TOE), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
SUPERVISING AND MENTORING ACTIVITIES (PhD LEVEL)
2021 November Onwards: PhD supervisor of Ms. Madhavi Dande, PhD Candidate, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
2021 January Onwards: External Mentor, McNair Business Scholars Network
2019 September Onwards: Mentor of Ms. Monika Maria Maslikowska, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2018 May – 2019 May: Mentor of Ms. Miaotong Yuan, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2017 March – 2021 July: PhD Co-supervisor of Ms. Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, PhD Candidate, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
CO-ORDINATION AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Current courses
LUISS Guido Carli (Rome), Italy
2020 onwards: PhD Course: Qualitative Research Methods (Teaching)
2020 onwards: Master Course: Research Methods in Social Sciences (Teaching)
2021 onwards: Master Course: Research Project Design (Teaching)
Past courses
Utrecht Summer School, The Netherlands
2019-2019: PhD Course in Qualitative research (Course directing and teaching)
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2018-2020: Bachelor Course: Toepassing van onderzoeksmethoden en statistiek (Teaching)
2017-2020: Master Course: Qualitative research methods (Co-ordination & teaching)
2017-2020: Bachelor Course: Doing a qualitative research project (Co-ordination & teaching)
2018-2018: Bachelor Course: Methoden, technieken en statistiek 4 – Verdieping kwalitatief (Guest lecturing)
2016-2018: Teachers’ Training and Education Science (ALPO) Course: Methods, techniques, and statistics (Teaching)
University College Utrecht, The Netherlands
2016-2020: Bachelor Course: Qualitative inquiry in everyday life (Co-ordination & teaching)
2017-2019: Coordinator and Lecturer of Bachelor Course: Qualitative research techniques (Co-ordination & teaching)
Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
2019-2020: Executive Master Course: MASHLM (Teaching)
2019-2020: Bachelor Course: Metodi Qualitativi (Teaching)
2016-2016: Bachelor Course: Tecniche di ricerche di mercato (Guest lecturing)
2015-2016: PhD Course: Qualitative research methods (Co-teaching and providing teaching assistance)
Swiss Summer School, Switzerland
2012-2015: PhD Course: Case Studies: Design, methods, and reporting (Co-teaching and providing teaching assistance)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
2015-2015: Bachelor course: Leadership and organization: Sense- and meaning-making in organizations (Co-teaching)
2015-2015: Bachelor Course: Organizational theory and design (Tutoring)
REVIEWING AND CHAIRING EXPERIENCE
Journals
Strategic Management Journal
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Business Ethics
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Scientometrics
Books
Sage Publishers, Research Methods
Conferences
Academy of Management (AoM)
European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference (ISSC)
European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI)
European Group for Organizational Studies Conference (EGOS)
Western Academy of Management (WAM)
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (ACIEK) – Formerly known as GIKA
Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP)
World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR)
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