Experience

Università di Pisa

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ricercatore a tempo determinato

  • Oct 2020 - Present

• Postdoctoral Researcher in Management

  • Mar 2018 - Oct 2020



The Darla Moore School of Business, Sonoco International Business Department

• Visiting PhD Student

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017



Mesopartner

• South Africa
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Joerg Meyer Stamer Fellow

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  Creating genuine shared values in industrial clusters: The contribution of the human rights approachhttp://www.jms-scholarship.com/fileadmin/user_files/JMS-Scholarship-Federica-Nieri-No5_01.pdfThe evidence of ‘low road’ clusters is extensive, but there has been a growing body of scholarly research aimed at understanding whether and how industrial cluster firms manage to escape a ‘low road’ trap and conduct business in a manner that is less likely to infringe on the rights of local communities and workers. So far, the Creating Shared Value (CSV) approach has rapidly become very prominent among managers, as it is claimed to be a win-win strategy for the firms and society. This paper discusses the intricacies of the CSV approach in the light of a set of original case studies of industrial clusters in Asia and Latin America: the lack of direct focus on ‘doing no harm’, the risk of window-dressing and the lack of a clear benchmark of what is considered lawful and ethical. On these grounds, we contend that cherry picking of CSV initiatives does not help clusters to solve socio-environmental problems per se, and we consider the problem of a relativistic interpretation of what is lawful and ethical to be deserving of more careful attention. We propose an alternative to the CSV approach, which we call genuine CSV, by drawing on research on business and human rights. We propose a 3-step agenda to facilitate the actual implementation of a genuine CSV approach in industrial clusters as follows: create awareness of business and human rights; undertake human rights due diligence at cluster level; and engage in multi-stakeholder initiatives.



Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

• Italy
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2014 - Sep 2014

  Project: "Emerging-Market Multinationals in Europe: Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Impacts and Trademarks Appropriation" Project: "Emerging-Market Multinationals in Europe: Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Impacts and Trademarks Appropriation"



Università di Pisa

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2013 - Jun 2014

  Project: “Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Emerging Countries firms”BRIC countries have generally gone through a process of liberalization and rapid economic growth that has allowed their major companies to acquire increasing weight in the global marketplace. However, they are still striving to achieve full legitimacy in the international arena. In a bid to close this legitimacy gap, BRIC firms are making efforts to align with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) global norms of doing business, and recently have adopted a portfolio of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. In this paper we provide a deeper exploration into the factors that relate to BRIC firms’ adoption of different types of CSR initiatives– i.e. social policies (philanthropic projects favoring different stakeholders), publication of CSR reports, adoption of GRI standards; adherence to and financial support for the UN Global Compact. We carry out an empirical analysis on 60 BRIC large public companies, and find support for the idea that different kinds of CSR initiatives may be subject to different pressures and may serve different legitimization strategies.