About

Overview

Alessandro Niccolò joined Bayes in September 2015 as a PhD student.

His research focuses on social issues in and around organizations. More precisely, he aims at understanding how new organizational forms, disintermediated and precarious, influence the social environment in which these companies are embedded. He is particularly interested in the effects for employees, notably in terms of precariousness or employee-employer relations, as well as how these issues can be transformed into public political debates.
Empirically, he his doing a qualitative study focusing on internships in and around the European institutions in Brussels, Belgium.

He is also involved in the ETHOS group of Bayes Business School.

As such, his research falls within organisational theory and his interests revolve around business ethics, organisation theory, economic sociology, and critical management studies.

He also has experience as senior researcher of a Bruxelles-based think tank.

Supervisors: Sebastien Mena and Hugh Willmott

Qualifications

• Postgraduate certificate for Learning, Teaching and Assessing, City, University of London, United Kingdom, Jun 2017
• MA in International Relations, University of Bologna, Italy, Sep 2012 – Dec 2014
• MSc in International Management, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep 2009 – Sep 2011
• BA in Economics, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland, Oct 2006 – Aug 2009

Administrative role

• PhD students representative, Cass Research Ethics Committee, Nov 2017 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

• Student Member, EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies), Apr 2017 – present
• Student Member, Academy of Management, Apr 2017 – present

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), Italian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

Expertise

Primary topics

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Organization Theory

Additional topics

• Business Ethics
• Critical Management Studies
• Digital Economy

Industries

• education, training & employment agencies
• information technology
• public sector

Geographic Areas

• Europe

Research

Title of thesis: Economic rationality and political change in and around organisations

Sep 2015 – Oct 2019

Summary of research

Following a three-papers structure, my dissertation looks at the political dimension of organisation studies from a discursive perspective. It comprises a conceptual paper and two empirical ones. The leading research question is: how does political confrontation unravel when social issues, demanding from organisations radical change incompatible with economic rationality, arise?. My empirical looks at interns in Brussels (BE), seat of the European Union

1^st supervisor

• Dr Sébastien Mena, Lecturer in Management (Phases)
  Sep 2015 – present

2^nd supervisor

• Professor Hugh Willmott, Professor of Management and Organization Studies
  Sep 2015 – present

Publications

Professional activities