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Elia Stefano

Associate Professor

Elia Stefano

Associate Professor

Stefano Elia, Ph.D. in Management Engineering, is Associate Professor.

He was “Dunning Visiting Fellow” at University of Reading, “Visiting Research Fellow” at University of Leeds and “Marie Curie Fellow” at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

He joined the U.S. “Offshoring Research Network”, the European project “POREEN on Partnering Opportunities between Europe and China” and the European COST Action “The Emergence of Southern Multinationals and their impact on Europe”. He is a project leader within an extended partnership funded by the National Recovery Plan and a member of a project funded by the Ministry of University and Research.

He published in several international journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of World Business, Journal of Economic Geography, Economic Geography, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Management International Review, Industry & Innovation, and Journal of Business Research.

Career

PHD: Economics and Industrial Engineering SIPD , Inter-Polytechnic Ph.D. School Politecnico di Milano Torino and Bari.

Master of Science: Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Economics Statistics and Social science, Bocconi University .

Research

His main research interests deal with: multinational firms from emerging countries, offshoring and reshoring of service and manufacturing activities, micro-foundation and behavioral economics applied to international business, digital technologies and internationalization, resilience and sustainable international business.


Selected Publications

  1. Elia, S., & Grilli, L. (2025). Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets. Industry and Innovation, 1-35.
  2. Elia, S., Goerzen, A., Piscitello, L., & Valentino, A. (2024). “Re‐Evaluating the Offshoring Decision: A Behavioural Approach to the Role of Performance Discrepancy”. Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 61, Issue 1, pp. 178-229.
  3. Vallone, T., Elia, S., & Greve, P. (2023). “International environmental complexity and the demand for generalists and specialists in executive selection”. Global Strategy Journal, Volume13, Issue3, 581-619.
  4. Elia, S., Larsen, M. M., & Piscitello, L. (2022). “Choosing misaligned governance modes when offshoring business functions: A prospect theory perspective”. Global Strategy Journal, Volume13, Issue2, 251-280.
  5. Elia, S., Larsen, M., Piscitello, L. (2019). “Entry mode deviation: a behavioral approach to internalization theory”. Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 50, Pages 1359–1371.


Grants, awards and Honours

Best paper of the track (EIBA, 2024, 2019 and 2015; AIB, 2017),

Best Instructor, X-Culture competition 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

GSJ Best Reviewer Award, 2023

Best Reviewer (EIBA, 2019; AIB, 2018, 2011, 2009)

Gianluca Spina Award 2017 for teaching excellence and innovation

Best paper of the conference (AIB-UKI chapter, 2014)


Community service

Delegate for International Relations with Western Europe

Research projects

  • Resilience and sustainability of global value/supply chains and re-shoring strategies

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  • CASCADE - Criticality Analysis for Supply Chain Availability and Dependency Evaluation

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