Title: Routines , heuristics and decision strategies for radical uncertainty
Moderator: Hervé Dumez, Vice President Research
Date: Friday, June 16
Time: 1.30 pm – 3.20 pm
Language: English
Room: The Dargan Theatre in Trinity Business School
Anna Grandori is Professor of Business Organization at Bocconi University, Editor-in-Chief of European Management Review, Honorary Member of EGOS and EURAM Fellow, and winner of the Edith Penrose Award for Trail-blazing Researchers 2022. She has been co-editor of Organization Studies and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management and Governance. Her approach integrates elements of organizational, economic, and behavioral sciences, and is oriented to improve decision-making, organization design and firm governance. Recent research interests include renewing the theory of the firm and inter-firm networks, constitutionalizing firm governance, and developing models for wise decision-making under high uncertainty and risk.
Giovanni Dosi is professor of economics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. He serves as co-director of the ‘Intellectual Property’ task force at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and is also continental Europe editor of the journal Industrial and Corporate Change. He is included in the ISI Highly Cited Research list, denoting those who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of science and technology, and is a corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the first academy of sciences in Italy.
In 2016 he received the Wiley TIM Distinguished Scholar Award by the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the American Academy of Management. In 2022 he was awarded the Penrose Award by EURAM (European Academy of Management) for his research on evolutionary economics.
His major research areas – where he is author and editor of several works – include Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, Industrial Economics, Evolutionary Theory, Economic Growth and Development, Organizational Studies. He has been involved in several international research projects.
A selection of his works has been published in two volumes: Innovation, Organization and Economic Dynamics. Selected Essays, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2000; and Economic Organization, Industrial Dynamics and Development: Selected Essays, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2012.
His book The Foundation of Complex Evolving Systems, a manual seeking to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of generation and exploitation of technological organizational and institutional innovations – from the drivers of knowledge accumulation, to the modes in which such knowledge is incorporated into business firms, all the way to the processes of innovation-driven “Schumpeterian competition” and macroeconomic growth, has been published in early 2023. In that, it advances the interpretation of such patterns, in terms of economies seen as complex evolving systems.
1976 Laurea (Philosophy), University of Milan
1983 PhD in Economics, SPRU, University of Sussex (UK)
1987 Professor of Applied Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1998 Professor of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa
