Dr Eugenia Cacciatori

About

Overview

Eugenia interests are in the organizational processes of innovation. She investigates the role of objects, such as physical and digital models, in knowledge creation and exchange within and across organizations in science and technology intensive settings. She is also interested in how key organizations shape and coordinate innovation in a field, an area she has explored in relation to the development of HIV vaccines and more recently disaster insurance and resilience.

Her research interests include:
• Catastrophe models and the insurance protection gap
• Organizations and schemes to coordinate adaptation and resilience in the face of the growing losses from disasters
• The ethics of technology - in particular AI ethics and transparency
• Emergence, stabilization and replication of organizational routines (stable organizational processes) in the context of technological or organizational innovation
• Learning and innovation in project-based contexts.

Eugenia holds a PhD in Science and Technology Policy and an MSc in Technology and Innovation Management, both from SPRU (University of Sussex). She graduated in Industrial Engineering with Management at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Before joining Bayes, Eugenia was Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich and, previously, Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, where she was also a fellow in the research centers CRORA and CROMA.

Eugenia’s research has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies and Research Policy.

She is part of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice (City) and the Ethics Community of Digital Society Initiative (UZH).

Eugenia has extensive teaching experiences in the areas of innovation and organization at undergraduate, MSc and MBA levels. She currently teaches in the areas of technology and innovation management, digital technologies and design thinking.

She is Co-Director of the Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (MICL). She is also member of Bayes' Learning and Teaching Committee and was in Bayes' Task Force on AI and Teaching.

Languages

Italian.

Expertise

Primary topics

• Innovation & Creativity
• Non-life Insurance
• Organization Theory

Research

Research topics

Publications

1. Jarzabkowski, P., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, R. (2023). Disaster Insurance Reimagined Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-286516-8.
2. Cacciatori, E. and Prencipe, A. (2023). Projects, capabilities, and innovation: Rome’s Jubilee as vanguard project for the Italian Civil Protection Department. In Davies, A., Lenfle, S., Loch, C.H. and Midler, C. (Eds.), Handbook of Innovation and Project Management (pp. 393–407). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-78990-179-5.
3. Cacciatori, E., Fenoglio, E. and Kazim, E. (2023). Living with Opaque Technologies: Insights for AI
   from Digital Simulations. EWAF’23: European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness 7-9 June, Winterthur, Switzerland.
4. Cacciatori, E., Jarzabkowski, P., Bednarek, R. and Chalkias, K. (2019). What's in a Model? Computer Simulations and the Management of Ignorance. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), pp. 18102–18102. doi:10.5465/ambpp.2019.250.

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5. Viganò, E., Cacciatori, E. and Hauser, C. (2024). Translating Responsible AI Principles into Practice: Insights from a Pilot Project. Chur, Switzerland: FH Graubünden Verlag. ISBN 978-3-9524437-4-3.
6. Jarzabkowski, P., Chalkias, K., Cacciatori, E. and Bednarek, R. (2018). Between State and Market: Protection Gap Entities and Catastrophic Risk..

Professional activities