Alessandra Luzzi
Associate Professor - Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Employee Profile
- Room number C3Y-063
- Phone +4746410740
- E-mail alessandra.luzzi@bi.no
Biography
I am an Associate Professor in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at BI.
My research interests focus on innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, firm growth and the effects of financial constraints for innovative firms. My research papers have been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Science, Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change.
My teaching mainly focuses on Innovation and technology strategy, with a particular interest in Social and Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I have also been teaching courses in Economics of Innovation and Research Methodology at the PhD level, International Business at the MBA and MSc level and Economics of organization and Statistics at the undergraduate level. I have collaborated in the Analytics for Strategic Management Master of Management program together with Espen Andersen and John Chandler Johnson at BI.
Before joining BI I was an Assistant Professor in the Business Department at Carlos III University, Madrid. I received my Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. I received a degree in Statistics from the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.
My research interests focus on innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, firm growth and the effects of financial constraints for innovative firms. My research papers have been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Science, Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change.
My teaching mainly focuses on Innovation and technology strategy, with a particular interest in Social and Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I have also been teaching courses in Economics of Innovation and Research Methodology at the PhD level, International Business at the MBA and MSc level and Economics of organization and Statistics at the undergraduate level. I have collaborated in the Analytics for Strategic Management Master of Management program together with Espen Andersen and John Chandler Johnson at BI.
Before joining BI I was an Assistant Professor in the Business Department at Carlos III University, Madrid. I received my Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. I received a degree in Statistics from the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.
Publications
Callegari, Beniamino; Luzzi, Alessandra, Martinsen, Ingvild & Walla, Elise (2021)
Digital Transformation: meet or evade the Challenge? A Case Study in the Maritime Industry
Academy of Management Proceedings
Luzzi, Alessandra & Sasson, Amir (2016)
Individual Entrepreneurial Exit and Earnings in Subsequent Paid Employment
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 40(2), s. 401- 420. Doi: 10.1111/etap.12225
Luzzi, Alessandra & Sasson, Amir (2015)
Entrepreneurial skills or reward for success? Does entrepreneurship pay in future paid employment?
Academy of Management Proceedings, 1 Doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2015.255
Fosfuri, Andrea; Giarratana, Marco & Luzzi, Alessandra (2008)
The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products
Organization science
Giuri, Paola; Mariani, Myriam, Luzzi, Alessandra & Et, Al (2007)
Inventors and Invention Processes in Europe. Results from the PatVal-EU survey
Research Policy
Luzzi, Alessandra & Smith, Sheryl Winston (2023)
Scaling Social-Business Hybrids: A Multiple Case Study on the Role of Learning
[Academic lecture]. EGOS Colloquium.
Callegari, Beniamino; Luzzi, Alessandra & Saiedi, Ed (2021)
Digital transformation of incumbents in digitally laggard industries
[Academic lecture]. Academy of management conference.
Luzzi, Alessandra & Smith, Sheryl (2020)
Scaling Social Business Hybrids: A Multiple Case Study on the Role of Learning
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Conference.
Luzzi, Alessandra & Ubisch, Sverre Søyland (2018)
Crowdfunding and Product Market Performance
[Academic lecture]. Bergen 2018 Entrepreneurship and Finance Conference, NHH.
Boustanifar, Hamid; Luzzi, Alessandra, Zhang, Dan & Zilja, Flladina (2017)
Entrepreneurs' Risk-aversion: effects on new ventures performance.
[Academic lecture]. DRUID17 Conference, New York.
| Year | Academic Department | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies | Ph.D. |
| 1999 | La Sapienza | M.S. |
| Year | Employer | Job Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - Present | BI Norwegian Business School | Associate Professor |
| 2013 - 2015 | BI Norwegian Business School, Strategy Department | Assistant Professor |
| 2005 - 2013 | University Carlos III, Business Department | Assistant Professor |
| 2011 - 2012 | Wharton School | Visiting Scholar |
| 2009 - 2009 | Luiss University | Visiting Professor |
| 2004 - 2005 | University Carlos III | Post-doctoral Fellow |