Gianluigi Giustiziero

Gianluigi Giustiziero is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at IE Business School. He received his PhD in Strategy from the University of Michigan.

Inspired by the classical work of Adam Smith and George Stigler, Gianluigi studies the impact of resource attributes and demand characteristics on the division of labor. At the time of their writing Adam Smith drew insights from butchers, bakers and brewers in the Highlands of Scotland in 1776, and George Stigler from the Lancashire textile industry in 1951; nowadays the productive system in developed economies is mainly devoted to the tertiary and quaternary sectors. Moving with the times, Gianluigi applies and extends the classic theories to service and high-tech industries.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Michigan, USA, 2015
• Master of Science in Business Administration, Bocconi University, Italy, 2008 Bachelor in Business Administration, Bocconi University, Italy, 2006

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany, 2018 – 2022
• Assistant Professor of Strategy, Skema Business School, France, 2015 – 2018

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Giustiziero, G., Kretschmer, T., Somaya, D., Wu, B. (2021). “Hyperspecialization and hyperscaling: A resource based theory of the digital firm”. Forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal

• Giustiziero, G. (2021). “Is the division of labor limited by the extent of the market? Opportunity cost theory with evidence from the real estate brokerage industry”. Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 42 (7): 1344 – 1378

• Giustiziero, G., Kaul, A., Wu, B. (2019). “The dynamics of learning and competition in Schumpeterian environments”. Organization Science, Vol. 30 (4): 668 – 693