Katiuscia Lavoratori
Katiuscia Lavoratori is an Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. Before joining Sapienza, she worked as an Assistant (Lecturer) Professor in International Business at Henley Business School, University of Reading (UK), and as a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK). She is a Member of The Dunning Centre for International Business, and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
Her research lies at the intersection of International Business and Economic Geography, with particular reference to the economic analysis of location choices, the relationship between agglomeration and productivity, Industry 4.0, and the new geography of global value chains. Katiuscia’s work on these topics has received several awards, including the Copenhagen Business School Prize, the Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award, and the Best Doctoral Thesis in Economics 2019–2020, awarded jointly by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento and the Department of Economic Sciences at the University of Verona.
Her work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Regional Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Management International Review, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.
- Location strategies of MNEs, Intra-firm Co-location
- Agglomeration Economies
- Firm Performance and Productivity
- FDI Spillovers
- Micro-Geography and Spatial Economics
- Global Value Chains
- Industry 4.0 and digital transformation
- Reshoring
- 2024 Henley Business School Award (Research) for Excellence in Research by Contributions to Scholarly Outputs as an Early Career Researcher. [Aug 2024]
- Copenhagen Business School Prize for the best conference paper written by a young scholar at EIBA conference 2022 in Oslo, for the paper “Two heads are better than one: determinants of MNC’s headquarters disaggregation in the home region”, co-authored with Ana Botella-Andreu. [Dec 2022]
- Track best paper awards for track 3 “Global strategy in a transitioning world” at EIBA 2022 Annual conference in Oslo, for the paper “Two heads are better than one: determinants of MNC’s headquarters disaggregation in the home region”, co-authored with Ana Botella-Andreu. [Dec 2022]
- Best Doctoral Thesis in Economics 2019-2020, awarded by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Trento and the Department of Economic Sciences at the University of Verona to honour the memory of the late Andrea Vaona. [Sep 2020]
- Nomination for the 2019 Academy of Management Conference Prize for the best Global Strategy Paper, for the paper “Connectivity and the location of MNE activities across the value chain”, with Castellani D., Perri A., Scalera V. [Aug 2019]
- Global Strategy Journal (GSJ) Best Paper Award AIB-UK&I, for the paper “Connectivity and the location of MNE activities across the value chain”, with Castellani D., Perri A., Scalera V. [Apr 2019]
- The Dunning Centre for International Business
- UK Higher Education Academy
- The Productivity Institute
- European International Business Academy
- Academy of International Business
- Società Italiana di Economia
- Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale