Giuseppe Delmestri

Giuseppe Delmestri is Full Professor and Chair of the Institute of Change Management & Management Development in the Management Department of WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He received the doctoral degree at Mannheim University and the habilitations to Associate Professor and to Ordinarius at Parthenope University in Naples. He was Tenured Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, where he also acted as Senior Lecturer at SDA Bocconi. He also served as Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Bergamo, where he was Deputy Director of the Department of Business Administration and Dean of SdM School of Management. Before joining WU he started the Joint Master in Global Business “Troika” as Full Professor at Johannes Kepler University.

He currently studies market categories, branding, status, stigma, power, identities and ethics in multinational companies, cinema, universities, global cities, community pharmacy and the beverage industry. He published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Strategy and Management, Human Relations, Higher Education, British Journal of Management, Economia & Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, International Studies of Management and Organization, and Journal of Arts & Cultural Management.

Education

• Ph.D. (Dr. rer.pol.) University of Mannheim (1996 — 2002)
• MSc Università Bocconi (1984 — 1989)

Companies

• Professor WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) (2014)
• Chair, Institute of Organization & Global Management Studies Johannes Kepler University (2011 — 2014)
• President SdM School of Management (2011 — 2013)
• Prof. Dr. Bergamo University (2005 — 2011)
• Visiting Scholar University of Alberta School of Business (2009 — 2009)
• Visiting Scholar Stanford University (2009 — 2009)
• Visting Scholar Copenhagen Business School (2008 — 2008)
• Senior Lecturer (Docente Senior) SDA Bocconi (1991 — 2006)
• Assistant Professor (Ricercatore confermato) Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' (1999 — 2004)