Date
28/10/2025
Time
09:30 - 13:00
Location
Room 0.18 (ground floor)
Final Defences – PhD in Management Engineering – 28 October 2025
In presence and online streaming
Building BL26/B – Room 0.18 (ground floor)
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Via R. Lambruschini, 4/B
Committee Chair: Guido Jacopo Luca Micheli, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano
Committee Members:
Evgenia Lysova, Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Martina Dal Molin, Associate Professor, Vilnius University, Vilnius
Reinhard Prügl, Full Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Wien
09:30 am – 13:00 pm | PhD Defence Sessions – Introduction by Committee Chair - Professor Guido Jacopo Luca Micheli
Presentation (30 minutes) | Discussion and Defence (30 minutes)
09:30 – 10:30 am | PhD Candidate: Francesco Candia
PhD Programme in Management Engineering (full time)
Thesis Title: “Explaining Promotions and Pay Decisions through Attribution Theory: A Person-Centered Perspective on Employees’ Fairness Perceptions”
Supervisor: Luca Gastaldi, AssociateProfessor, Politecnico di Milano
10:30 – 11:30 am | PhD Candidate: Alessandro Francesco Sinatra
PhD Programme in Management Engineering (full time)
Thesis Title: “Agile or just a label? The adoption of agile working in public organisations”
Supervisor: Michela Arnaboldi, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano
11:30 – 12:30 pm | PhD Candidate: Luca Cognigni
PhD Programme in Management Engineering (full time)
Thesis Title: “Innovation Management Practices: from classificationto implementation”
Supervisor: Josip Kotlar, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano
12:30 – 1:00 pm | Final Assessment (Private Session – Committee Members Only)
13:00 pm | Proclamation of the results