INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, IN USA FOR THE FIRST TIME THE “NOBEL PRIZE FOR MANAGEMENT” WAS AWARDED TO A EUROPEAN SCIENTIST - PROFESSOR GIOVANNI DOSI, DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS

The “Nobel Prize for Management” is awarded for the first time to a European scholar, in particular Professor Giovanni Dosi, director of the Institute of Economics at Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies, who is world-recognized as a brilliant expert of exceptional analytical skills as applied in macroeconomics topics. The “Wiley TIM distinguished scholar award” was given to Giovanni Dosi on the occasion of the Academy of Management (AoM) annual meeting in Anaheim, California.

The AoM report emphasizes the profound impact that professor Dosi’s work on technological paradigms, evolutionary economics, corporate coherence and organization, had on the research topics of AoM Technology & Innovation Management (TIM) Division. The AoM academic organization, founded in 1936, is still considered the largest and most prestigious institution in the field of management; the continuous pursuit of prestige shows the importance and significance of the prize awarded to professor Dosi.

Giovanni Dosi presented his work “Institutions are neither Autistic Maximizers nor Flock of Birds: Self-Organization, Power and Learning in Human Organizations”, co-written by professor Luigi Marengo (former professor of economics at Sant’Anna School, currently working at Luiss University) and by Alessandro Nuvolari, professor at the Institute of Economics at Sant’Anna School.  The provocative approach of the paper proved popular with members of the AoM.

"I am very honored I received this prestigious award, I would say perhaps the most prestigious, within the domain of enterprise management and economics" said Giovanni Dosi, coming back from U.S., "I am pleased because it recognizes the analytical perspective that focuses on the nature and evolution of the enterprises knowledge and learning as determinants of their performance, and, correspondingly, resizes the excessive emphasis on the role of incentives reflecting the dominant economic thinking ".

"I would like to dedicate this award - said Giovanni Dosi - to economists and analysts of organizations working in a 'developmental perspective' ”.