Elena Dalpiaz

Summary

Dr. Elena Dalpiaz is Assistant Professor of Strategy. She holds a PhD degree from Bocconi University, where she also earned her BA in Economics and Law (with honours). During 2007 and 2008, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs Business School.

Dr Dalpiaz''s research is theoretically grounded in the areas of strategy, entrepreneurship, and organization theory, and it analyzes how established organizations and new ventures use cultural resources for pursuing strategic and organizational change, and new market opportunities. Examples of cultural resources analyzed in her studies include strategy makers'' narratives, organization''s identity claims and culture, as well as societal-level meaning systems and institutional logics. Dr Dalpiaz analyzes the processes through which strategy makers can mobilize such resources strategically and attain legitimacy among multiple organizational stakeholders. The context of her research is manufacturing firms and digital incubators.

She teaches competitive strategy both at the undergraduate and graduate level and offers executive education in the area of strategic storytelling and management of culture. She has also taught courses of strategic management in creative industries and international management.

Dr Dalpiaz''s research has been published or is forthcoming in leading management journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Advances in Strategic Management, Strategic Organization, and in several book chapters. Her work also received several awards from the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management and from the Strategic Management Society.