Rizzuni Andrea Matteo

Post doc fellow

Andrea Rizzuni is Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano (Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of the School of Management), where he teaches Agricultural Supply Chain Management at the MSc in Agricultural Engineering and various modules on business economics, sustainability and cross-sector partnerships at MSc, graduate, and corporate programmes. His research interests lie at the intersection between strategic management, business economics and sustainable development, with a focus on cross-sector partnerships with nonprofits, and circularity in the water and agri-food sectors.

Career

Research

Research interests: Cross-sector partnerships between business and nonprofit organizations; circularity and resource efficiency in the agri-food (food waste reduction; surplus food management, recovery and redistribution) and water (economic and policy drivers for water reuse technologies adoption) sectors.

Selected Publications

Bartezzaghi, G., Garrone, P., Rizzuni, A., Melacini, M., & Perego, A. (2025). Resource Orchestration in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Systemic Change: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Food Assistance. Business & Society, In Press.

Garrone, P., Rizzuni, A. (2025). Collaborations with nonprofit organizations: Signals or agents of operational change? Empirical evidence from Italian listed enterprises. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 32(1), 448–464.

Neri, A., Rizzuni, A., Garrone, P., & Cagno, E. (2024). Influence of policymakers and civil society stakeholders on sewage sludge management strategies: Empirical results from European utilities. Journal of Environmental Management, 364, 121396.

Neri, A., Rizzuni, A., Garrone, P., Cagno, E. (2024). Barriers and drivers to the development of an effective water reuse chain: insights from an Italian water utility. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 1-21.

Garrone, P., Rizzuni, A. (2023). Infrastrutture del sistema idrico: problemi e opportunità. In Sussidiarietà e... governo delle infrastrutture. Rapporto sulla sussidiarietà 2022/2023 (pp. 69-80). Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà.

Bartezzaghi, G., Colicchia, C., Garrone, P., Melacini, M., Perego, A., & Rizzuni, A. (2022). Mitigating barriers to surplus food donation in Italian retail and food service. In Food Loss and Waste Policy (pp. 224-239). Routledge.

Cagno, E., Garrone, P., Negri, M., & Rizzuni, A. (2022). Adoption of water reuse technologies: An assessment under different regulatory and operational scenarios. Journal of Environmental Management, 317, 115389.

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