Luciano Fratocchi

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Full Professor of Managerial Engineering at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics at the University of L’Aquila (Italy).

Associated researcher at the Department of Business Studies Uppsala University since 2026.

Biografi

Born 1968-04-13.

M.Sc. in Economic and business at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy) (1992)

PhD in Management at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Italy) (1996)

Visting Professor at Department of Business Studies Uppsala University (Sweden) (2016)

Visiting PhD Student at Department of Business Studies Uppsala University (Sweden) (1994)

Visting PhD Student at School of Management University of Bath (UK) (1993-1994)

Current position: Full Professor of Managerial Engineering at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics at the University of L’Aquila (Italy) (2019-at present).

Rector delegate for technology transfer at the University of L’Aquila (2019 – at present)

Former Positions: Associate Professor at University of L’Aquila (Italy) (2004-2019); Assistant Professor at University of L’Aquila (1998-2003); Contract Professor at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome, Italy); University Gabriele d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara (Italy), University of Ancona (Italy)

Forskning

Research Focus

International business, Reshoring, Nearshoring, Backshoring.

Research projects

Criticality Analysis for Supply Chain Availability and Dependency Evaluation

European Reshoring Monitor

Centers of excellens in multinational companies

Reviewer Positions

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing (Emerald)

Area Editor Operation Management Research (Springer)

(former) Member Editorial Board Journal of Supply Chain Relocation (Inderscience)

Recent publications

Barbieri, P., Di Stefano, C., Elia, S., Fratocchi, L., Pensa, C., (2026), Supply backshoring as a strategy to reduce transaction costs in an era of global value chain reconfiguration, Journal of International Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2025.101313

Presutti, M., Fratocchi, L., Majocchi, A., (2026), The impact of distance on social capital in high-tech born global companies, Journal of small business management, doi 10.1080/00472778.2025.2607508

Baraldi E., Ciabuschi F., Fratocchi L., (2025) Value chain disruptions: policy responses to antibiotic shortages in global value chains, Journal of International Business Policy, DOI: 10.1057/s42214-025-00214-w

Baraldi E., Ciabuschi F., Fratocchi L., Pedroletti D., Picciotti A., (2025), The roles of key suppliers in network formation when reshoring, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 40 (4), pp. 841 - 857, DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-02-2023-0101

Di Stefano, C., Fratocchi, L., Martínez-Mora, C., & Merino, F., (2024), Manufacturing reshoring and sustainable development goals: A home versus host country perspective. Sustainable Development, 32(1), pp. 863–875 https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2710

Presutti, M., Fratocchi, L., Odorici, V., (2024) The Impact of Strategic Orientations on the Born Globals’ Export Performance: An Ambidexterity Approach, Management International Review, DOI: 10.1007/s11575-024-00552-6