PHD: Management Engineering & Architecture Construction Engineering and Built Environment, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management of Built Environment, Politecnico di Milano.

Alessandra's research examines how organizations can thrive through new work practices and physical spaces, such as workspaces and neighborhood social spaces. She is broadly interested in how these organizational spacesrelate to work behavior and management goals (e.g., innovation and social responsibility). Her academic work investigates through quantitative and qualitative methods how the design and meaning of spaces influence crucial economic and social outcomes such as new venture creation, knowledge-worker productivity, and responsible business practices. Specifically, her research program falls into two streams. ​The first deals with how physical and social structures within workplaces shape knowledge production and inclusion. She has a particular interest in how space design can have (un)intended consequences on marginalized individuals and on how organizations and their members deal with spaces that lie beyond traditional organizational boundaries (e.g., homes and third places). The second stream investigates how neighborhood structures and urban physical and social infrastructures shape entrepreneurship, and in particular, startups’ founders and workforce. Her research contributes to several national and internation projects, including the project "MUSA – Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action. Spoke 6: Innovation for sustainable and inclusive society".

Areas of interest: Inequality and Organizations; Organizational Space; Place; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Social Sustainability; Gender equality.

1. Migliore, A. Rossi-Lamastra C., Tagliaro. C. (2025), "Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?", Research Policy, 54(7). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2025.105269
2. Migliore A., Tagliaro C., “Back to the future”. Making the future organizational space from experience to imagination and back”, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation (forthcoming)
3. Tagliaro, C., Migliore, A., Mosca, E.I. and Capolongo, S. (2023), "Room for diversity: a review of research and industry approaches to inclusive workplaces", Journal of Corporate Real Estate, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-04-2023-0017
4. Migliore A., Rossi-Lamastra C. & Tagliaro C. (2022). “Are workspaces gender neutral? A literature review and a research agenda”, Building Research & Information, Vol. 50, No. 8, pp. 924-948 https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2022.2087172
5. Tagliaro C., and Migliore A., (2021). “’Covid-working’: what to keep and what to leave? Evidence from an Italian company”. Journal of Corporate Real Estate. Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 76-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-10-2020-0053

More infomation on working and published papers can be found at: www.alessandramigliore.com

1. IDEA League Fellowship 2024-2025 for a three-month visiting period in one of the IDEA League institutions (i.e., TU Delft University). Website: https://idealeague.org/
2. ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Award – Academy of Management (Organization and Management Theory - OMT Division) Website: https://omt.aom.org/awards/abcdaward.
3. Elected member of the 2023-2026 RGCS Executive Committee “Research Group on Collaborative Spaces” (Role: International Development).President: Prof. Stefan Haefliger (SSE)
4. Idea League Grant for joint research projects for a short visiting period at TU Delft University.Website: https://idealeague.org/

INDUSTRY-FUNDED RESEARCH

I have extensive experience in applied research projects funded by leading companies and institutions, focusing on workplace transformation in response to digitalization, hybrid work practices, sustainability goals, and organizational change. Collaborations with companies have informed my research, and in turn, my research has influenced the activities of several organizations.

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA

PDW Academy of Management Conference

1. PDW at AOM 2025 (July 2025, Copenhagen): “Addressing the “spatial turn” in entrepreneurship research: new dimensions and emerging issues” with Richard Hunt (Virginia Tech); David Townsend (Virginia Tech). Panelists: Sunasir Dutta (Carlson); Eliana Crosina (Babson); Friederike Welter (Siegen); Boukjie Cnossen (Leuphana); Stefan Haefliger (SSE).
2. PDW at AOM 2025 (July 2025, Copenhagen): “Space and Place in Organization and Management Research: Topics, Methods and Conceptual Perspectives” with Tania Raecker (U. of Zurich, Switzerland), Kathleen Stephenson (VU Amsterdam, NL), Jeannie Holstein, (Nottingham U. BS, UK), and Anniina Rantakari (U. of Oulu Business School, Finland). Panelists: David Seidl (U. of Zurich); Louise Nash (U. of Essex); Chris Steyaert (U. of St. Gallen); Massimo Maoret (IESE); Robin Holt (U. of Bristol)
3. PDW at AOM 2024 (August 2024, Chicago): “Navigating spatial approaches to address grand challenges”, with Tania Räcker (U. of Zurich, SWITZERLAND), and Kathleen Stephenson (Vrije U. Amsterdam, NL). Panelists: Scott Taylor (U. Birmingham), Kim Elsbach (U. California Davis), David Seidl (U. Zurich), Linda Putnam (U. California, Santa Barbara), Gemma Irving (U. Queensland), and Andreas Diedrich (U. Gothenburg)

EGOS Conference

1. Facilitator at the PDW at EGOS 2025 (July 2025, Athens): “PDW 01 – Meta-Organizing for Desirable Futures: The Potential of New Ways of Working and Cooperating”
2. Organizer of the pre-Egos event (off-program, EGOS 2024, Milan): “Space and the ethics of care: new ways of working and new ways of caring”. Distinguished Speakers: Anne Laure Fayard (Professor of Social Innovation at NOVA School of Business and Economics), Anne Antoni (Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management), Carolina Pacchi (Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano), Ilaria Mariotti (Professor of Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano).

Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS)

1. Symposium 2025 “In-betweenness”: spatial and temporal perspectives on working and organizing” held at Politecnico di Milano. January 23rd - 24th, 2025 (Program)
2. Symposium 2020 “Collaborative practices, workspaces and communities in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis” – Online, December 14-16, 2020 (Program). Website of the research group: https://rgcs-owee.org/

New European Bauhaus Festival 2024

1. Satellite Event “Inclusion and well-being through design” held at Politecnico di Milano, April 15th, 2024. Distinguished speakers: Juriaan Van Meel (Centre of People and Buildings), Jeannine van der Linden (European Coworking Assembly), Federica Pedroni (CBRE), Sara Busnelli (ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel), Hassan Shaikh (Boehringer Ingelheim), Marco Gastoldi (Gensler UK), and Demetrio Scopelliti (Agenzia Mobilità, Ambiente e Territorio – AMAT). (Website)

Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR)

1. 3rd Bi-annual Conference held at Politecnico di Milano, September 7-9, 2022. Role: Organizer, Program Management, Proceedings editing. (Program). Website of the network: https://www.twrnetwork.org/