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Biscaccianti, Alessandro Ph.D.

Trilingual Italian, French and English, Alessandro Biscaccianti has a technical and managerial background. Degrees include an MSc in engineering-architecture at Università di Bologna, an MBA in International Business at the ENPC School of International Management, a Doctorate in Business Administration at the International School of Management (Paris-New York).

He served as project manager for ABB in the construction of power plants in the Middle East and as Quality Director for CMC, the second-leading Italian construction company.

Since 1996 he has served as tenured or visiting faculty in several international Business Schools (ESSEC, ENPC, Reims Management School, ESC Dijon, International School of Management, EM Grenoble) and carries out consulting missions for a wide-range of companies across sectors and industries (Arcelor, Areva, Auchan, Carrefour, Freudenberg, Geodis, Hartmann, Merck, La Poste, l'Oreal, Sogefi Allevard Filtrauto, Société Générale, Solvey, Urgo) in the fields of entrepreneurship, change management, project management, team management, negotiation and conflict resolution, strategic management, creativity, personal development and interpersonal communication.

He has a specific competences in adult education, trainer training and conflict mediation.

He is the founder of several companies in the construction industry (an architecture agency, an aluminium sun-shelters erection company, two real-estate contruction firms). At the moment he is working on the development of two new start-ups.

Courses: 
  • Change Management
  • Project Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Team management
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Strategic Management
  • Personal Development
  • Interpersonal Communication.
  • International Business Negotiation
CV: 
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Recent Publication

  • Doctoral thesis published as/in: "The M3C – Model of Cooperative Contextual Change", Biscaccianti, A.; Esposito, M.; Williams, L; Oklahoma,  Tate Publishing Enterprises, 2010 
  • "The Cooperative Contextual Change Model: A Process for Implementing Problem-Based Learning" Alessandro Biscaccianti and Thomas C. Neil in a Challenging World Series: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, Vol. 10, McCuddy, M.K.; van den Bosch, H.; Martz, Jr., W.B.; Matveev, A.V.; Morse, K.O. (Eds.) 2007, XXII, 638 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5611-6
  • "Multicultural Perceptions of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle" Ben Martz, Tom Neil, Alessandro Biscaccianti, & Robert Williams in The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World Series: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, Vol. 10, McCuddy, M.K.; van den Bosch, H.; Martz, Jr., W.B.; Matveev, A.V.; Morse, K.O. (Eds.) 2007, XXII, 638 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5611-6
  • Student Perception of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle: A Multi-Cultural Exploration (with B. Martz, T. Neil, R. Williams) International Journal of Entrepreneurship, volume 7, 2005
  • The Cooperative Contextual Change Model (M3C): Establishing the Conditions for Continuous Improvement (with T. Neil) published in 2005 in a special issue of the Academy of Management The M3C a process for implementing PBL (with T. Neil) –published in 2005 in a special issue of the Academy of Management Eliciting Implicit Paradigms in Allocating Resources: ‘Satisficing’ Performance and ‘Illusion of Control’, (with T. Neil, B. Martz) Management Decision, march 2004
  • The Cooperative Contextual Change Model: a process for enhancing students' autonomy. Austrian Fachhochschul-Conference Annual Symposium, Wien, Austria, 12 November 2004
  • Education, Sex & Culture: their impact on attitudes to entrepreneurship. EFMD 34th EISB Conference (Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business Conference), Turku, Finland, 7-9 September, 2004 (with R. Williams, T. Neil, B. Martz)
Publication file: 
application/pdf iconALESSANDRO BISCACCIANTI_PubList.pdf