Gastaldi Luca
Associate Professor
Gastaldi Luca
Associate Professor
Luca Gastaldi is Associate Professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.
He teaches "Firms and Strategic Decisions" and the "Process Analysis and Modelling Lab" and he is part of the core faculty of PoliMI Graduate School of Management, where he teaches business process management, organisation design and digital innovation in public settings.
Since 2013, he is board member of CINet, an international research network on continuous innovation.
Over the years, he promoted research and consulting projects in the area of digital innovation, with a peculiar emphasis on public entities.
He is Scientific Director of the Smart City Observatory and of the Center for Digital Envisioning at Politecnico di Milano.
He is Director of the Digital Agenda Observatory and the Digital Identity Observatory at Politecnico di Milano.
He is Senior Researcher in the Digital Healthcare Observatory and Smart Working Observatory at Politecnico di Milano.
Career
PhD:, Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Research
His research interests are in the fields of digital innovation and organizational design, with a peculiar emphasis on public entities.
He is Scientific Director of the Smart City Observatory and of the Center for Digital Envisioning at Politecnico di Milano.
He is Director of the Digital Agenda Observatory and the Digital Identity Observatory at Politecnico di Milano.
He is Senior Researcher in the Digital Healthcare Observatory and Smart Working Observatory at Politecnico di Milano.
On all these topics he published several papers in peer-reviewed international journals.
Selected Publications
• Vella G., Gastaldi L., Appio F.P. (2025) Non-Algorithmic Governance Mechanisms of Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications: Evidence from Multiple Cases, Technovation, Vol. 148, pp. 1–12, ISSN: 0166-4972, DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103332, https://bit.ly/TCV_2025
• Boccoli G., Tims M., Gastaldi L., Corso M. (2024) The Psychological Experience of Flexibility in the Workplace: How Psychological Job Control and Boundary Control Profiles Relate to the Wellbeing of Flexible Workers, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Vol. 155, pp. 1–18, ISSN: 1095-9084, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104059, https://bit.ly/JVB_2024
• Gastaldi L., Appio F.P., Trabucchi D., Buganza T., Corso M. (2024) From Mutualism to Commensalism: Assessing the Evolving Relationship Between Complementors and Digital Platforms, Information Systems Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 1217–1263, ISSN: 1365-2575, DOI: 10.1111/isj.12491, https://bit.ly/ISJ_2024
• Maragno G., Tangi L., Gastaldi L., Benedetti M. (2023) Exploring the Factors, Affordances and Constraints Outlining the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Public Sector Organizations, International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 73, pp. 1–15, ISSN: 17641-5276, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102686, https://bit.ly/IJIM_2023
• Maragno G., Tangi L., Gastaldi L., Benedetti M. (2023) AI as an Organizational Agent to Nurture: Effectively Introducing Chatbots in Public Entities, Public Management Review, Vol. 25, No. 11 pp. 2135–2165, ISSN: 1540-6210, DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2022.2063935,https://cutt.ly/PMR_2022
• Boccoli G., Gastaldi L., Corso M. (2023) The Evolution of Employee Engagement: Towards a Social and Contextual Construct for Balancing Individual Performance and Wellbeing Dynamically, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 75–98, ISSN: 1468-2370, DOI 0.1111/ijmr.12304, https://cutt.ly/IJMR_ENG_2022
• Gastaldi L., Lessanibahri S., Tedaldi G., Miragliotta G. (2022) Companies’ Adoption of Smart Technologies to Achieve Structural Ambidexterity. An Analysis with SEM, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 174, No. 1, pp. 1–12, ISSN: 0040-1625, DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121187, https://bit.ly/TFSC_I40_2022
Grants, awards and Honours
Community service
From November 2021 to April 2023 he served as a digital expert in the Technical Secretariat for the implementation of the National Recovery Plan at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government