Giulia Cappellaro Studies Organizations in Complex Institutional Contexts

Since March, Giulia Cappellaro has entered the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management as an Assistant Professor. Cappellaro earned her PhD in Management Studies (2014) at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation, titled Institutional Pluralism and Organizational Change, investigated the dynamics of adaptation of hybrid organizations and was awarded as the best student paper by the European Group for Organizational Studies.

A member of the Academy of Management and of Egos, she was a visiting PhD student at the University of Alberta in 2012. Before the PhD, Cappellaro graduated cum laude at Università Bocconi with the BSc in Economics and management of arts, culture and communication (2005) and the MSc in Economics and Management of Public Administrations and International institutions (2007). Her research interests focus on how organizations respond to complex institutional contexts and on the impacts on professionals' behavior, specializing on processual and ethnographic methods. Cappellaro also studies the generative mechanisms for collective identity in contexts of interorganizational collaboration.