VALERIA GIACOMIN

20148 BUSINESS HISTORY
30361 DOING BUSINESS IN EUROPE

I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. 

Previously I held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Business School and Marshall Business School (USC). I received her PhD from Copenhagen Business School with a thesis on the development of the palm oil cluster in Southeast Asia since colonial times.

My research focuses on global history of commodity markets in Southeast Asia; clusters in historical perspective; and business history of emerging markets since the 19th century. Recently I started new projects on historical entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems in different historical and geographical contexts.

Business and Global History; Historical Entrepreneurship; Economic Geography

Giacomin V. and Pillai S.D.
From production cluster to creative hub: The ascend of fashion and creative industries in Milan

Ram, H., Giacomin V. and Wakslak, C.
Entrepreneurial Imagination: The application of Construal Level Theory for Historical Entrepreneurship

Giacomin V. and Lubinski C.
Entrepreneurial imagination: Ruth Handler and Mattel in, in post war America

Giacomin V. and Wadhwani, R.D.
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A review

Giacomin, Valeria; Jones, Geoffrey
Drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets: family, values and spirituality
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 9999

Giacomin, Valeria; Jones, Geoffrey; Salvaj, Erica H.
Business investment in education in emerging markets since the 1960s
BUSINESS HISTORY, 2021

Valeria Giacomin
Singapore: global city ante litteram in early 20th century Southeast Asia
Singapore – Two hundred years of the Lion City, Routledge, pp. 61-79, 2019

Giacomin, Valeria
Clusters as spaces for global integration
The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, Routledge, pp. 264-278, 2019

Lubinski, C., Giacomin V., & Schnitzer K.
Internment as a business challenge: Political risk management and German multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
Business History, 63:1, 72-97, 2019

Giacomin, Valeria
The emergence of an export cluster : traders and palm oil in early Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia
ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY, 19(2): 272-308, 2018

Giacomin V.
The transformation of the global palm oil cluster : dynamics of cluster competition between Africa and Southeast Asia (c.1900-1970)
JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY, 13(3): 374-398, 2018

Giacomin, Valeria
Negotiating cluster boundaries: governance shifts in the palm oil and rubber cluster in Malay(si)a (1945–1970 ca.)
MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY, 12(1): 76-98, 2017