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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Organizational Behavior
Business ethics
Organization Theory
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).
Diplomas
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)
Experiences
Head of Major - Human Resource Management
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2020 - 2023
Publications
Published
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., SHYMKO Y., (2025). Is it the end of the world as we know it? Apocalyptic reflexivity in and around organizations.
Ephemera: Theory & politics in organization, 25 (1), 17–43
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2025). Poetry from the factory: “On the Line,” by Joseph Ponthus.
Organization, 32 (1), 154-157
FREMEAUX S., SFERRAZZO R., GREVIN A., (2025). Generalized Reciprocity and Interfirm Cooperation: A Study of Entrepreneurial Development in Argentina.
Journal of Business Ethics
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
Forthcoming
SFERRAZZO R., GUERCI M., HOLM M., ISLAM G., (2025). Spirited away? Tensions in spirituality-and-management education within a business school.
Management Learning
SFERRAZZO R., NIGRI G., RUFFINI R., (2025). Rethinking the Normative Foundations of the Stakeholder Theory Through the Civil Economy Approach: Insights From a Relationality- Based Anthropological Perspective.
Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
NIGRI, G., RAMIREZ, L. F., SFERRAZZO, R. (2024). The Civil Company: Place-Based Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue with Business Ethics and Workplace Spirituality. Place Based Approaches to Sustainability Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan.
SFERRAZZO, R., RENATO RUFFINI, R. (2023). Company Rituals: A Valid Management Tool in the Organizational Field. Personal, Educational and Organizational Transformation. Future of Business and Finance. (pp. 287–311). Springer.
SFERRAZZO, R. (2023). How Does Responsible Leadership Fit with a Participatory Management Model?. The Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change (pp. 71-81). New York: Routledge.
SFERRAZZO, R., RUFFINI , R. (2022). Love and Organizational Models: How to Interpret Forms of Love Within Companies. In Michael Pirson (Ed.), Love and Organization. New York: Routledge.
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.
FREMEAUX S., SFERRAZZO R., LEE H.-L., GREVIN A., (2025). Generalized reciprocity and giving-incentive schemes: Examining contemporary Confucian practices within a Korean organization.
SFERRAZZO R., GUERCI M., HOLM M., GAZI ISLAM G., (2024). Falling from heaven: Waves of spirituality in management education within business schools.
SFERRAZZO R., MARCAZZAN E., (2024). Investigating the logic of gift as an expression of fraternity: A social cooperative case.
SFERRAZZO R., NIGRI G., RENATO RUFFINI R., (2023). Back to Anthropology: Re-thinking the normative foundations of stakeholder theory through the Civil Economy approach.
SFERRAZZO R., FREMEAUX S., GREVIN A., (2023). Rescuing authenticity at work: insights from workers’ rituals in alternative organizational settings.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., SHYMKO Y., (2023). Apocalypse and Organization Studies: Transforming Eschatological Drive into Bold Theorizing.
SFERRAZZO R., FREMEAUX S., GREVIN A., (2023). The collective experience of authenticity at work: Insights from community-oriented rituals in contemporary work settings.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2022). Apocalyptic Organizing as a Way to Build Better Organizational Worlds.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 1, 11937
FREMEAUX S., SFERRAZZO R., SHYMKO Y., (2022). Rehabilitating the existential meaning of work with Simone Weil: Melting the icy pandemonium of contemporary organizations.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2022). A contribution to understanding the apocalypses that nowadays circulate in and around organizations.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2022). A contribution to the analysis of cultural apocalypses in and around organizations.
NIGRI G., RAMIREZ L. F., SFERRAZZO R., (2022). The Civil Company: Place based sustainability in dialogue with business ethics and workplace spirituality.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2021). An Analysis of Cultural Apocalypses in and around Organizations.
CAROLLO L., SFERRAZZO R., (2021). “Apocalypse in and around organizations: it’s the end of organizational worlds as we know them”.
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
Broadcast
SFERRAZZO R., (2024). Audencia MSc in Human Resource Management & People Development.
Chaine Youtube Audencia
SFERRAZZO R., (2023). Évolution du Leadership : tradition vs management humain ?.
Audencia Business School
BARDON T., JOSSERAND E., SFERRAZZO R., CLEGG S., (2022). ‘Tensions between (Post)Bureaucratic and Neo-normative Demands: Investigating Employees’ Subjective Positions at EurAirport’.
British Journal of Management
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
Reviewer for an academic journal
Reviewer for Philosophy of Management
2025
Reviewer for Business and Professional Ethics Journal
2025
Reviewer for the Communications of the Association for Information SystemsCommunications of the Association for Information Systems
2024
Reviewer for Public Policy and Administration
2024
Reviewer for the Journal of Leadership Studies
2023
Business Ethics Quarterly
2023
Reviewer for the European Management Review
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 scientific board of an academic association
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Capri Summer School (X Edition, 2024)
2024
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 2025 C. YANG : The Double-edged Sword Effect of Game Competitiveness on Gig Workers’ Behaviors on PlatformsThe Double-edged Sword Effect of Game Competitiveness on Gig Workers’ Behaviors on Platforms.
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.
Since 2024 H.-L. LEE : Relevance and limitations of giving incentive systems: lessons from a Korean company.
(2024) L. QIONGSHAN : Research on Intelligent Person-job Fit for Overseas Transfer of Consumer Electronics Manufacturing Industry.
(2024) L. SHIZHENG : A Study of the Impact of Inclusive Leadership on Employees’ Counterproductive Work Behaviors-Effects of Psychosocial Safety Climate and Power Distance.
(2025) M. TAFURO : BUSINESSES AND SOCIETY:THE ROLE OF CORPORATE PURPOSE.
Since 2025 M. WU : Enriching Indigenous Leadership and Followership Studies: Moving Beyond Paternalism in Asia.