PHD: Phd Management, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Master of Science: MSc Management (Major: Social Business), Glasgow Caledonian University.

My research focuses on how purpose-driven innovation emerges through collaboration between public, private, and third-sector actors. I study how hybrid governance models, open social innovation, and public-private partnerships can foster institutional and technological change to address complex sustainability challenges. By examining how institutional forces and organizational practices interact, I explore the conditions that make innovation inclusive, adaptive, and impactful, with particular attention to the role of governance, data, and evidence-based policy in driving societal transformation.

At the center of my work is the challenge of designing and sustaining institutional arrangements that make innovation genuinely purpose-driven and socially valuable. For example, as technologies such as AI and data science become central to sustainable development, my research investigates how to balance their transformative potential with responsibility and good governance. Ultimately, my work seeks to understand how cross-sector collaboration and institutional innovation can turn policy and practice into powerful engines of inclusive and long-term societal transformation.

1. Bellazzecca, E., Bengo, I., Casprini, D., Cavaliere, F. & Ghilardi, E. (2025). Sustainability Beyond Reporting? Unpacking the Intersections Between Impact Topics and Functions of Social Impact Assessment Models. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
2. Tropeano, T., Bellazzecca, E., Bengo, I. (2025). Social Impact Measurement as a “Public Value Guarantee” in Public-Private Partnerships? Evidence From a Realist Evaluation. Public Money and Management.
3. Tropeano, T., Bellazzecca, E., Calderini, M. (2025). The key to impact? How social measurement affects public-private partnership contracts. International Journal of Commerce and Contracting.
4. Mazzei, M., Bellazzecca, E., Montgomery, T. & Calò, F.. (2025). Social Bridging Finance: a new Scottish model for financing public service design and delivery? Journal of Social Policy
5. Tropeano, T., Bellazzecca, E. & Bengo, I. (2024). Exploring the Functions and Role of Social Impact Measurement in Enhancing the Social Value of Public-Private Partnerships: A Systematic Literature Review. Public Policy and Administration
6. Bellazzecca, E., Casprini & Gerli, F. (2024). Verso un modello di valutazione di impatto sociale per le Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili: un approccio realista. In Tricarico, L. & Gerli, F. (Eds). Partecipare la Transizione Energetica: Una prospettiva Multidisciplinare sulle Comunità Energetiche. Feltrinelli Eds.
7. Calò, F., Scomigliano, F., Bellazzecca, E. and Ongaro, E. (2023). Social Innovation duringturbulent times: a systematic reviewand research agenda.Public Management Review.
8. Calò, F., Teasdale, S., Roy, M.J., Bellazzecca, E. and Mazzei, M. (2023). Exploring collaborative governance processes involving nonprofits: a realist evaluation. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
9. Teasdale, S., Bellazzecca, E., De Bruin, A. and Roy, M.J. (2022). The (R)evolution of the SocialEntrepreneurship Concept: A Critical Historical Review. Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
10. Bellazzecca, E., Teasdale, S., Biosca, O. and Skelton, D.A (2022). The health impacts of place- based creative programmes on older adults’health: A criticalrealist review. Healthand Place, 76
11. Bellazzecca E and Biosca, O. (2021). Intended and unintended effects of specialised regulation on microfinance institutions' double-bottom line management. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.

1. Bellazzecca, E. and Biosca, O. (2017) Can microfinance regulation encourage mission drift? The Italian case. European Microfinance Network(EMN) – Research Paper Award.