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Migliore Alessandra

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Migliore Alessandra

Ricercatore

Alessandra Migliore is a researcher in management and organization studies at Politecnico di Milano. She received her Ph.D. in 2022 after a joint doctoral program between the Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Architecture, Construction Engineering, and Built Environment at Politecnico di Milano. Her PhD thesis, "In search of an alternative workspace: disclosing academics' spatial practices and productivity within and beyond the campus", was defended with honors. She has been a visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology (Department of Management in the Built Environment) and at the University Carlos III de Madrid (Department of Business Administration). Alessandra is the primary instructor of the BSc course "Business Economics," and she is teaching assistant of the courses "Building Types and Real Estate Functions" at Politecnico di Milano. Throughout her career, she has provided consultancy to numerous organizations regarding workplace transformation processes and the development of their workplace strategies, particularly in relation to hybrid work, innovative workspaces, and associated services.

More information can be found ather personal website: www.alessandramigliore.com

Carriera

PHD: Management & Architecture (interdisciplinary program), Politecnico di Milano.

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

Bachelor of Science: Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Torino

Ricerca

Alessandra's research focuses on the future of work, workspaces, and organizing. Specifically, she explores collaboration and interactions in placeless and hybrid work arrangements and how organizational spaces and place-based mechanisms shape the performance of individuals and teams within knowledge-intensive and entrepreneurial organizations. She is interested in the potential (un)intended effects of organizational practices on equality and inclusion, especially regarding female workers and entrepreneurs and marginalized geographical contexts. She typically adopts quantitative empirical methods. She strives to actively contribute to management and organization scholarship by bringing a spatial lens to theorize phenomena in new ways. Her research has received multiple grants from the Ministry of University and Research in Italy, IDEA League, the European Union under the NextGenerationEU, and from different companies. Her findings are published in leading academic journals, including Research Policy, as well as practitioner outlets in management and architecture.

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

Pubblicazioni Selezionate

  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

Premi e riconoscimenti

  1. European Talent Academy 2026 with Imperial College London and Technical University Munich
  2. 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/
  3. 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.
  4. Elected member of the 2023-2026 RGCS Executive CommitteeResearch Group on Collaborative Spaces” (Role: International Development).President: Prof. Stefan Haefliger (SSE)
  5. Idea League Grant for joint research projects for a short visiting period at TU Delft University.Website: https://idealeague.org/


Servizio alla comunità

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/



Progetti di ricerca

  • The relation between workspaces and gender in academia: an interdisciplinary approach

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