Transizione di carriera: da manager a imprenditore. Questa ricerca si concentra sul mercato del lavoro italiano e si propone di esplorare le condizioni istituzionali, sociali, educative, culturali e individuali come l’esperienza, le attitudini e competenze che favoriscono il passaggio dal ruolo manageriale a quello d’imprenditore.

Managerializzazione delle imprese familiari. L’obiettivo principale di questa ricerca è comprendere i rapporti esistenti tra i differenti strumenti di controllo manageriale presenti nelle imprese familiari e le loro determinanti. A tal fine l’approccio proposto da Simon viene rivisto per sviluppare un framework di ricerca sui sistemi manageriali presenti nelle imprese familiari.

La gestione delle risorse umane nelle imprese familiari. La ricerca è indirizzata alla comprensione della relazione esistente tra formalità e informalità nelle politiche di gestione del personale nei diversi contesti aziendali. Si prefigge, inoltre, di analizzare l'impatto di differenti politiche di gestione del personale sulle performance economico-finanziarie e organizzative. Le principali teorie di riferimento considerate sono: Contingency Theory, Resource Based View e New Institutionalism, Company Growth Theory, Agency Theory, ed Equity Theory.

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Entrepreneurs from managers: Careers at the “intersection of societal history and individual biography”. This research focuses on the transition from managerial to entrepreneurial roles in the current Italian setting and aims to explore the individual and contextual conditions that foster this transition. In particular the work aims to explore the contextual (institutional, social, educational, and cultural) and individual conditions (experience, attitudes and competences) that foster this transition.

Managerialization of Family Businesses. The main objective is to understand the intertwined relations between different types of control in family business, and their determinants. Consistently with this goal, the Simon’s approach is revisited to develop a research framework on the MCSs in family business.

HRM Practices in Family Firms . The objective of this research is to verify the internal determinants that lead a family SME to implement professional practices of human resource management. We distinguish between determinants related to family’s characteristics (family involvement into governance and/or management, generation involved), and organizational drivers (firm’s size, organizational structure’s typology). The main theories used are Contingency Theory, Resource Based View e New Institutionalism, Company Growth Theory, Agency Theory, Equity Theory.