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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Organizational Behavior
Business ethics
Organization Theory
International and European Business
Humanistic Management
Sustainable Leadership
Human Resource Management
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Organization Studies
Business ethics
Human Resources Management
Alternative Forms of Work Organization
Gift-giving and management
Biography
Biographie
My research explores ethical perspectives in Organization Studies and Management through a multidisciplinary lens. I analyze how organizations adopt and shape discourses, particularly within alternative forms of organizing. Additionally, I examine the intersection of business ethics and emerging work arrangements, drawing on insights from philosophy and anthropology.
My work has been published in leading international journals, including the British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, and Work, Employment and Society. I also delve into ethical approaches to management in my monograph, Civil Economy and Organisation: Towards Ethical Business Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Section CV
Formation
PhD in Management
Università LUMSA, Rome
(2020)
Master Degree in Management and Business Administration
Università LUMSA, Palermo
(2015)
Bachelor Degree in Economics and Management
Bocconi University, Milan
(2013)
Publications
Forthcoming
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R., SHYMKO, Y. (2024). Is it the end of the world as we know it? Apocalyptic reflexivity in and around organizations. Ephemera: Critical Dialogues on Organization
Published
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2025). Poetry from the factory: “On the Line,” by Joseph Ponthus. Organization, 32 (1), 154-157.
BARDON, T., JOSSERAND, E., SFERRAZZO, R., CLEGG, S. (2023). Tensions between (post)bureaucratic and neo-normative demands : Investigating employees subjective positions at EurAirport. British Journal of Management, 34 (1), 57-71.
FREMEAUX, S., GREVIN, A., SFERRAZZO, R. (2023). Developing a Culture of Solidarity Through a Three-Step Virtuous Process: Lessons from Common Good-Oriented Organizations. Journal of Business Ethics, 188 (1), 89-105.
ISLAM, G., SFERRAZZO, R. (2022). Workers' rites: Ritual mediations and the tensions of new management. Journal of Management Studies, 59 (2), 284-318.
GUERCI, M., SFERRAZZO, R., CABRAS, F., RADAELLI, G. (2022). Organized crime and employment relations: a personal story of ‘Ndrangheta control on employment relations management practices in Southern Italy. Work, Employment and Society, 36 (4), 758-768.
SFERRAZZO, R., RUFFINI , R. (2021). Are liberated companies a concrete application of Sen's capability approach?. Journal of Business Ethics, 170 (2), 329-342.
SFERRAZZO, R. (2021). The ‘agapic behaviors’: reconciling organizational citizenship behavior with the reward system. Humanistic Management Journal, 6 (1), 19-35.
RUFFINI , R., MODARELLI, G., SFERRAZZO, R., TURRI, M. (2020). Is merit pay changing ethos in public administration?. Cogent Business and Management, 7 (1724703), 1-15.
SFERRAZZO, R. (2020). Towards an agape-based organization: does it make sense to apply Civil Economy to business ethics?. Business and Professional Ethics, 39 (2), 225-251.
SFERRAZZO, R. (2020). The construction of workers’ identity in liminal spaces. puntoOrg International Journal, 5 (1), 29-41.
NIGRI, G., RAMIREZ, L. F., SFERRAZZO, R. (2024) The Civil Company: Place-Based Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue with Business Ethics and Workplace Spirituality Palgrave Macmillan
SFERRAZZO, R., RENATO RUFFINI, R., NEAL, J. (2023) Company Rituals: A Valid Management Tool in the Organizational Field Springer, , 287–311
SFERRAZZO, R., DHIMAN, S. (2023) How Does Responsible Leadership Fit with a Participatory Management Model? Routledge, , 71-81
SFERRAZZO, R., RUFFINI , R. (2022) Love and Organizational Models: How to Interpret Forms of Love Within Companies Routledge
FREMEAUX, S., SFERRAZZO, R., LEE, H.-L., GREVIN, A. (2025). Generalized reciprocity and giving-incentive schemes: Examining contemporary Confucian practices within a Korean organization. Philosophy of Management Conference 2025 (27-30 June, EM Normandie, Oxford, UK).
FREMEAUX, S., SFERRAZZO, R., LETIERCE, C., MURITHI, W. (2025). Navigating the ethical tensions of women’s entrepreneurship in the indigenous context: The case of a Maasai community in Kenya. European Academy of Management 2025 (22-25 June, University of Florence, Italy).
SFERRAZZO, R., MARCAZZAN, E. (2024). Investigating the logic of gift as an expression of fraternity: A social cooperative case. Research Seminar on "Gift in Business" (Research Chair on "Gift at Work", University of Nantes, 19/20 March 2024).
SFERRAZZO, R., GUERCI, M., HOLM, M., GAZI ISLAM, G. (2024). Falling from heaven: Waves of spirituality in management education within business schools. European Academy of Management (EURAM), University of Bath, 25-28 June 2024.
SFERRAZZO, R., FREMEAUX, S., GREVIN, A. (2023). The collective experience of authenticity at work: Insights from community-oriented rituals in contemporary work settings. Research Seminar at the Department of Organization Studies & Ethics (Audencia, 12 January, Nantes).
SFERRAZZO, R., NIGRI, G., RENATO RUFFINI, R. (2023). Back to Anthropology: Re-thinking the normative foundations of stakeholder theory through the Civil Economy approach. Dublin, Trinity Business School. European Academy of Management.
SFERRAZZO, R., FREMEAUX, S., GREVIN, A. (2023). Rescuing authenticity at work: insights from workers’ rituals in alternative organizational settings. University of Nottingham. 13th International Critical Management Studies Conference.
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R., SHYMKO, Y. (2023). Apocalypse and Organization Studies: Transforming Eschatological Drive into Bold Theorizing. 17th Organization Studies Workshop.
FREMEAUX, S., SFERRAZZO, R., SHYMKO, Y. (2022). Rehabilitating the existential meaning of work with Simone Weil: Melting the icy pandemonium of contemporary organizations. European Academy of Management, 15-17 June 2022, Zurich, Switzerland..
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2022). A contribution to understanding the apocalypses that nowadays circulate in and around organizations. European Academy of Management, 15-17 June 2022, Zurich, Switzerland..
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2022). A contribution to the analysis of cultural apocalypses in and around organizations. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), 7-9 July 2022, Vienna..
NIGRI, G., RAMIREZ, L. F., SFERRAZZO, R. (2022). The Civil Company: Place based sustainability in dialogue with business ethics and workplace spirituality. Annual European SPES Conference 2022, May 19-21, Urbino, Italy.
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2022). Apocalyptic Organizing as a Way to Build Better Organizational Worlds. Academy of Management (pp. 11937). Academy of Management Proceedings.
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2021). An Analysis of Cultural Apocalypses in and around Organizations. WOA 2021 Conference, Genoa..
CAROLLO, L., SFERRAZZO, R. (2021). “Apocalypse in and around organizations: it’s the end of organizational worlds as we know them”. Ephemera and AlterEcos workshop on Organizing for apocalypse. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark [Ephemera Event], 8-9 December 2021.
Press articles
FREMEAUX, S., MERCIER, G., GREVIN, A., SFERRAZZO, R. (2024). Managers… et si vous faisiez confiance à la confiance. The Conversation
SFERRAZZO, R. (2023). Importance of agapic behavior within the work setting. The Manila Times
Scientific activities
Guest Editor of an academic journal
Guest Editor in the Special Issue "Gift-giving and Management: A Philosophical Perspective" at the Philosophy of Management Journal,
2025
Guest Editor in the Special Issue "Alternative Forms of Work Organization and Business Ethics" at the Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility journal,
2023
Co-Editor of the section 'Il planetario. Lo sguardo sul mondo' for Sviluppo & Organizzazione Journal,
2019
Member of the scientific board of an academic association
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Capri Summer School (X Edition, 2024)Member of the Scientific Committee of the Capri Summer School (X Edition, 2024),
2024
Reviewer for an academic journal
Reviewer for the Communications of the Association for Information SystemsCommunications of the Association for Information Systems,
2024
Reviewer for Public Policy and Administration,
2024
Business Ethics Quarterly,
2023
Reviewer for Human Relations,
2023
Reviewer for Organization Studies,
2022
Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Psychology,
2022
Reviewer for RIMHE journal,
2022
Reviewer for Group & Organization Management,
2021
Reviewer for Humanistic Management Journal,
2021
Reviewer for the Academy of Management Perspectives,
2021
Reviewer for M@n@gement,
2021
Reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics,
2020
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
Participation in the Editorial Board of the Philosophy of Management Journal,
2023
Participation in the Editorial Board of the European Management Review,
2023
Awards and honors
Audencia Foundation Research Grant (July/August 2024), 2024
Fetzer Institute Scholarship for attending the Academy of Management in Boston, 2019
Special Mention ‘Premio Socialis’ (15th Edition, 2018) awarded by ‘Observatorio Socialis’ Online Journal for the best M.A. thesis on 'The subsidiary management and well-being at work in civil economy', 2017
CERGAS BOCCONI (Research Center on Health and Social Care Management): Member of Business Planning team in collaboration with “Libera APS” ( Milan, Apr 2012 / Sep 2012). 2nd award for business planning competition., 2012
Doctoral supervision
Since 2024, H.-L. LEE : Relevance and limitations of giving incentive systems: lessons from a Korean company, ,
Since 2023, L. QIONGSHAN : Research on Intelligent Person-job Fit for Overseas Transfer of Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Industry, Audencia Business School, China (PRC)
Since 2025, L. SHIZHENG : A Study of the Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Employees’ Counterproductive Work Behaviors-Effects of Psychosocial Safety Climate and Power Distance, Audencia Business School, China (PRC)
Since 2025, J. JUAN WANG : Exhaustion or Thriving? The Double-edged Sword Effect of Work Connectivity Behaviors After-Hours on Employees’ Work StatusExhaustion or Thriving? The Double-edged Sword Effect of Work Connectivity Behaviors After-Hours on Employees’ Work Status, Audencia Business School, China (PRC)