Curriculum Vitae
Massimo Magni is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management at Università Bocconi, where he is also the Director of the MSc in International Management. Since January 2021, he has been Faculty Deputy of the Leadership, Organization & Human Resources Knowledge Group at SDA Bocconi.
At SDA Bocconi, he was the Director of the Organization and Human Resources Management Department. His academic work and professional commitments are aimed at supporting company leaders in developing a team-oriented and collaborative culture, and he has conducted numerous organizational behavior and leadership workshops as well as research and education projects in Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
He has directed and conducted numerous research, education, and consulting projects with UniCredit, Bank of Italy, European Central Bank, ENI, Prysmian, Barilla, and many others.
His research activities focus on leadership and teams with a specific focus on collaboration in dispersed settings and virtual teams. His current research focuses on the role of technology in shaping leadership styles and in fostering team member collaboration. Moreover, his studies on the use of mobile technology are aimed at providing a better understanding of how firms and individuals can reap the benefits of ICT (e.g. productivity, agility) while alleviating the drawbacks (e.g. stress, work-family conflict). His work has been published in major academic journals, and his research results have been reported in managerial magazines such as MIT Sloan Management Review, World Economic Forum Agenda, Harvard Business Review (Italian edition), Forbes, and Bloomberg. He has also appeared on radio and TV shows to comment on managerial topics and to present the results of his research.
Massimo earned a PhD from LUISS University and an International Teachers Program from the Kellogg School of Business (Northwestern University, Chicago) and was a visiting PhD at the University of Maryland. He is an Associate Coach at Columbia University, New York.
Research Interests
- Organizational behavior
- Individual and organizational improvisation
- Organizational climate and culture
- Individual and team behaviors in organizational change processes
- Leadership styles and IT implementation
Publication
Books
- Caporarello, L., & Magni, M. (Forthcoming) Team Management. Leading Management series Egea,-SDA Bocconi, II edizione
- Magni, M., Pennarola, F. (2015) Responsible Leadership. Leading Management series Egea -SDA Bocconi
- Pina e Cunha, M. & Magni, M. (2014). Management improvisation. In Gillian Kane, Ed., Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, Wiley Blackwell
- Caporarello, L., Magni, M., Pennarola, F. (2014) All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Alleged Innovations In Human Computer Interaction, In Baglieri, D., Metallo, C., Rossignoli, C., Pezzillo, M. (Eds) “IS, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects”, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, Springer, Gemany
- Caporarello, L., Magni, M., Pennarola, F. (2014) Improving information exchange effectiveness through data compression techniques, In Baglieri, D., Metallo, C., Rossignoli, C., Pezzillo, M. (Eds) “IS, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects”, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, Springer, Gemany
- Basaglia, S., Caporarello, L., Magni, M., Pennarola, F. (2013) Designing teams for enhancing individual added-value use of technology, In Baskerville, R., De Marco, M., Spagnoletti, P. (Eds) “Designing Organisational Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discourse”, Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, Springer, Germany
- Caporarello, L., & Magni, M. (2011) Team Management. Leading Management series Egea -SDA Bocconi
- Basaglia S., Caporarello L., Magni M., & Pennarola F. (2008) Individual Adoption of Convergent Mobile Technologies in Italy. In: De Marco M. Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies. Springer, Berlin
- Proserpio L., Magni M., & Provera B. (2008) Managerial computer business games in Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second edition, Pagani M. (ed.), p. 873-879, IGI Global, Hershey (USA)
- Magni M., Provera B., & Proserpio L., (2008) Individual Improvisation in Information Systems Development,” in Handbook of Research on Modern Systems Analysis and Design Technologies and Applications, Mahbubur Rahman Syed and Sharifun Nessa Syed (eds.), p. 105-118, IGI Global, Hershey (USA). Contribution adapted from Magni M., Provera B., Proserpio L., “Individual attitude toward improvisation in information systems development”, Behaviour and Information Technology
- Proserpio L., Magni M., (2005). Learning through Business Games in Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, First edition, Pagani M. (ed.), p. 532-537, Idea Group Reference, Hershey (USA)
Articles
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Mobile Use and Family-Work Conflict: A Resource Drain Theory Approach to Examine Their Effects on Productivity and Well-Being Information Systems Research, 2023, vol.34, no. 1, pp.253-274
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What we are pushed to do versus what we want to do: Comparing the unique effects of citizenship pressure and actual citizenship behavior on fatigue and family behaviors Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2023, vol.141, pp.103845
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improvisation in dispersed settings in The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in OrganizationsMiguel Pina e Cunha, Dusya Vera, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Anne Miner (Eds) ,Routledge, pp.286-298, 2023
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Management: Creating and managing flexible and resilient teams Bocconi University Press – BUP, Milano, Italy, 2022
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Team Management: Creare e gestire team flessibili e resilienti – III Ed.Egea, Milano, Italy, 2022
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Il group coaching: quando il metodo favorisce la creativitàHarvard Business Review Italia, March, 2022
Other Relevant Information
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