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Elisa del Sordo , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

    Accepting PhD Students

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    20212025

    Research activity per year

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    Introduction

    Elisa Del Sordo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business (Faculty of Economics and Business), where she is also the Coordinator of Research Seminars. She earned a Ph.D. in Management cum laude from LUISS University in July 2025, and was Visiting Scholar at Texas Christian University, M.J. Neeley School of Business, during the Academic Year 2023/2024.

    Research

    Elisa is a strategy scholar and economic sociologist. Her research examines how and why firms select, retain, and replace top managers, particularly through the lenses of CEO succession and executive labor markets. She also studies research methodology and causal logics, with a particular interest in their role in theorizing and empirical modeling.

    Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Strategic Leadership, CEO Succession, Economic Sociology, Research Methodology

    Education/Academic qualification

    Ph. D., Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Management, Luiss University (LUISS)

    Award Date: 23 Jul 2025

    Visiting Scholar, Texas Christian University

    Dec 2023Jun 2024

    Masters, MS.c in Economics and Development, University of Florence

    Sept 2018Oct 2020

    Baccalaureate, BA in Philosophy, Politics, Economics (PPE), Luiss University (LUISS)

    Sept 2015Jul 2018

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