Luca Pistilli

Luca joined UCD as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Strategy and International Business in 2019. Prior to joining UCD, Luca was a PhD Candidate and Course Director at Bocconi University, Milan. He obtained his PhD from Bocconi University, defending a dissertation that granted him invitations to various conferences and events, among these the prestigious Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation 2018, held at Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA. Luca has also held a visiting researcher position at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, NH, USA. Luca's research focuses on both organizational adaptation and entrepreneurial failure. In particular, he focuses on the dynamic capabilities that support organizations when those are facing external disruptions, and how failure affects the subsequent career of entrepreneurs. Luca teaches entrepreneurship and CSR modules on the undergraduate BComm at Quinn School of Business. He has previously taught strategy, technology innovation, and CSR on graduate and undergraduate programs at Bocconi University, and he taught at executive level strategy modules on Telefonica's managerial training programs.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research focuses on two key pillars, organizational adaptation and entrepreneurial failure. Adopting a dynamic capabilities framework, my goal is to shed additional light on the complex dynamics that allow some organizations to better handle environmental changes. Further, I investigate the effect of failure on subsequent entrepreneurial attempts, both adopting a survival and capacity to attract external funds perspectives. I use both qualitative and quantitative methods, depending on the nature of the research question. I also used mixed-methods. I try to focus on research that has an impact also beyond the academic boundaries, giving me the possibility to exploit my research takeaways in occasion of practitioners' events, such as the participation as a panelist to the EY Annual Attractiveness Event in 2017.

Publications

Never Give Up! How to effectively respond to an M&A failure with a post-M&A recovery strategy 2021 Co-authors Pistilli L, Cozzolino A, Verona G, Pennarola F

Toward a Holistic Understanding of M&A Success: Operational Processes for Post-M&A Recovery Strategy 2020 Co-authors Pistilli L, Cozzolino A, Verona G, Pennarola F

Back to Drawing Board: An Investigation of the Gender Effect on the Entrepreneurial Stigma of Failure 2020 Co-authors Pistilli L, Paccagnini A, Breschi S, Malerba F

Taking the Wind out of Consumers Sails: Social Movements as Industry Disruptors 2020 Co-authors Pistilli L, Godart F

Toward a Holistic Understanding of M&A Success: Operational Processes for Post-M&A Recovery Strategy 2020 Co-authors Pistilli L, Cozzolino A, Verona G, Pennarola F

Organizational Revolution: The Radical Transformation of Roche Italy 2020 Co-authors Pistilli L, Cappetta R

How EU Telco Operators did not Bite the Dust: A Model of Capabilities Evolution 2018 Co-authorPistilli L, Stadler C, Verona G

Hit the Nail on the Head: Implementing and Promoting Contextual Ambidexterity at Amgen Italy 2018 Co-authors Pistilli L, Pennarola F

The Post–Merger Trauma: How Outstanding Leadership may Promote Contextual Ambidexterity 2017 Co-authors Pistilli L, Ferdinando P

Angels and Daemons: Is more Knowledge better than less Privacy? An Empirical Study on a K-anonymized openly available Dataset 2017 Co-authors Pistilli L, Pennarola F, Chau M

Against All Odds: Adapting to Technological and Market Change in the EU Telecommunication Sector 2017 Co-authors Pistilli L, Stadler C

Against All Odds: Adapting to Technological and Market Change in the EU Telecommunication Sector 2017 Co-authors Pistilli L, Verona G, Stadler C

Against All Odds: Adapting to Technological and Market Change in the European Telecommunication Sector 2017 Co-authors Pistilli L, Verona G, Stadler C

From college to consulting through the main door: When IT skills make a difference for Junior Enterprise students 2016 Co-authors Pistilli L, Pennarola F, Gregory D

Transforming Company Culture at Amgen Italy 2016 Co-authors Pistilli L, Pennarola F