Valeria Giacomin
Economics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Biography
Valeria Giacomin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università Bocconi. Previously she held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Business School and Marshall Business School (USC).
Her research focuses on global history of commodity markets in Southeast Asia; clusters in historical perspective; and business history of emerging markets since the 19th century. Recently she started new projects on historical entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems in different historical and geographical contexts. Her work has been published in Business History, Enterprise & Society, MOH, Journal of Global History and Journal of Business Ethics.
She got her PhD from Copenhagen Business School with a thesis on the development of the palm oil cluster in Southeast Asia since colonial times.
Latest publications
Entrepreneurial imagination: Insights from construal level theory for historical entrepreneurship
Business History, 2024, vol.66, no. 2, pp.364-385
Perspectives on oral history for historical research in Handbook of Historical Methods for Management
Stephanie Decker, William M. Foster, Elena Giovannoni(Ed), Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 9, pp.121-139, 2023
Entrepreneurship as emancipation: Ruth Handler and the entrepreneurial process ‘in time’ and ‘over time’, 1930s–1980s
Business History, 2023, pp.1-28
Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in Emerging Markets: Family, Values and Spirituality
Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, vol.180, no. 1, pp.263–282
Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s
Business History, 2021, vol.63, no. 7, pp.1113-1143
Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
Business History, 2021, vol.63, no. 1, pp.72-97