Experts & Expertise

• Contract theory
• Alliances and joint ventures
• Corporate policy and strategy
• Organizational design

Complementarities, learning and contracts in the governance of interorganizational relationships. 2 yrs research project. Divisione Ricerche Claudio Dematté, SDA Bocconi School of Management

Participated in the international research project KGP, ?Knowledge , Governance and Projects: Configurations and Dynamics of the Project-based Economy? (2004-2007) coordinated by Anna Grandori (Crora,-Bocconi University) with the following partners: Patrick Cohendet (U. of Strasbourg and Montreal), Mark Ebers (U. of Colone), Gernot Grabher (U. of Bonn), Peter Maskell (Copenhagen Business School), Andrea Prencipe (SPRU ? U. of Sussex and U. of Pescara), Leon Oerlemans (Tilburg University); and funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) and by the collaborating universities.

Visiting felloship at the Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Strategic Management Area. Summer 2007.

?Flexible formalization. A study on inter-organizational project governance? Academy of Management Meeting, Chicago, August 2009

?Knowledge Distribution, Coordination Requirements and Contractual Choice in Technology Collaborations?. Presented at the 2008 Workshop of the Italian Scholars and Researchers of Organization Theory, Venice, Feb 7-8, 2008

?From Relational to Associational Contracting: the Case of Project-Based Strategic Alliances? (with A. Grandori). Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 3-8, 2007

?An Empirical Taxonomy of Technology Alliance Contracts?. Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 3-8, 2007

?Planning for Risk or Planning for Performance? Managing Resource Requirements and Coordination Concerns in Technology Alliance Agreements?. EMNet 2007 - International Conference on Economics and Management of Networks, Rotterdam, June 28-30, 2007

?Facio ut Facias: Associational Contracts and Innovation? (with A. Grandori).

· EMNet 2007 - International Conference on Economics and Management of Networks, Rotterdam, June 28-30, 2007

· the International Workshop ?Internal organization, cooperative relationships among firms and competitiveness?, Lucca, 19-20 January, 2007.

?Contracts as an Organizational Phenomenon: A Review of Empirical Research on Inter-firm Contracts?. Accepted at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia - August 11-16, 2006

?The Devil is in the Details: the contractual governance of Joint R&D Biotechnology Alliances?. Presented at the 22nd EGOS Colloquium ? Bergen, July 6 - 8, 2006

?There is more to contracts than incompleteness: on ?hybrid contracting? in inter-firm networks?. Corvinus Univ., Budapest: EMNet 2005, September 15-17, 2005

M. Furlotti PhD teaches the following subjects:

• International Management for IBA (30J101) Further information
• Business Dynamics (325068) Further information

Member of the Academy of Management, BPS Div., OMT Div.