Elisa Del Sordo

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Elisa is a PhD Candidate in Management and Teaching Assistant for M.Sc. courses at Luiss Guido Carli University and at the New York University (NYU) in Florence. Her research interests lie at the intersection between corporate governance, sociology and organization studies. Her core area of scholarly enquiry is Board research, with a strong penchant for Board diversity, Board compositional dynamics and Board processes. As part of her research expertise, her current methodological interest and focus concerns set-theoretic methods and configurational approaches. Besides her main research activity, she is concurrently conducting an applied research project for an Italian company. Prior to her doctoral studies, Elisa attained a M.Sc. (honors) in Economics and Development from the University of Florence, and a BA (honors) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Luiss Guido Carli University. In addition, she is in the editorial team of an online journal and Research Fellow for Luiss LabGov.

Research Interests

Corporate Governance, Strategy, Board Compositional Dynamics, Board Diversity, Organizational Sociology, Configurational Theory and Methods, Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)

Current Teaching Experience (TA)

Corporate Governance, Individual Decision Making and Behavioral Strategy, International Business, Management and Organizations

Supervisor

Prof. Alessandro Zattoni

E-mail

edelsordo@luiss.it