Curriculum

Francesco POLESE Curriculum

Francesco Polese is Full Professor of Business Management at Business Sciences - Management and Innovation Systems Department and the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry “Scuola Medica Salernitana”, at the University of Salerno (Italy), where he currently is teaching:

  • “Marketing”, at the Degree Course Economia e Management, curriculum Economia e Gestione delle imprese;
  • “Service Marketing”, at the Degree Course Economia e Management;
  • “Laboratorio di management”, at the Master Course Consulenza e Management Aziendale;
  • “C.I. principi di odontoiatria – module: Business Management”, at the Master Course Odontoiatria e protesi dentaria.

Founder and executive director of the SIMAS Interdepartmental Research Center (Systems for Innovation and Health Management) of the University of Salerno, since May 2013.

Co-Founder of 'I-cube Digital Ventures', a spin-off of the university for the development of opportunities in the “big data management” field.

Member of the Board of Nanomates (Interdip. Center on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies of the University of Salerno), as well as a member of the Scientific Council of the International Gaming Observatory (OIG) of the University of Salerno.

Coordinator of the PhD Course in “Big Data Management” (XXXVI and XXXVII cycles), Business Sciences - Management and Innovation Systems Department of the University of Salerno, A.Y. 2020/2021 - March 2022.

Full Professor of Business Management at the University of Salerno since 2016.

Associate Professor of Business Management at the University of Salerno since 2012.

Associate Professor of Business Management at the University of Cassino since 2005, where he has taught Business Management, Innovation Management, Service Management, Advances Enterprise Management, Tourism Enterprises Management.

Executive director of MADI lab (Management And Diffusion of Innovation), DIAM department, University of Cassino, from 2005 to 2011.

Scientific coordinator of the international cooperation project entitled “The emerging perspective of service science for management and marketing studies” approved by the Italian Ministry of Research between the University of Cassino, the Mid Sweden University (Sweden) and the Universidad de Torcuato de Tella (Argentina)

Visiting professor and lecturer in Stockholm at the Stockholm University School of Business and the Södertörn University College and at Östersund at the Mid Sweden University (2007).

He was founder in 2009 and co-chair of the 7 past editions of the international conference "The Naples Forum on Service: Service-Dominant Logic, Service Science and Network Theory".

Member of editorial board of international journals including Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review, American Marketing Science Review, Frontiers in Medicine - section Translational Medicine, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, Service Science, Studi e Ricerche sui Sistemi Vitali di Asvsa (Research Association on Viable Systems).

For over twenty years he has actively participated in the international debate by presenting works within the scientific international community, as an organizer, keynote speaker, programme committee or chair of some conferences such as AHFE (Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics), FMM (Forum on Markets and Marketing), IESS (International Conference on Exploring Services Science), NFS (Naples Forum on Service), Servsig.

Winner of "Distinguished Paper" at the “International Conference on Exploring Service Science – IESS 2.2”, with the paper entitled “Value co-creation ‘gradients’: enabling human-machine interactions through AI-based DSS” of Carrubbo, L., Polese, F., Drăgoicea, M., Walletzký, L., & Megaro, A.

Awarded with "Appreciation Keynote Speaker" at the “International Conference on Exploring Service Science – IESS 2.2”.

Winner, in 2019, of the Service-Dominant logic Research Award.