Elisabetta Merlo
I am Associate Professor of Economic History. I hold a Ph.D. in Economic and Social History from Bocconi University. I am affiliated at ICRIOS - The Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Bocconi University)
Research interests
My research interests include the history of the Italian fashion industry and companies.
Selected Publications
Configuring cultural emerging industries: a comparison of the French and Italian fashion industries
BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW, 2023Institutions as intangible assets in the evolution of Italian fashion, 1950–2000
JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, 2024Making italian fashion global: brand building and management at Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (1950s‒1990s)
BUSINESS HISTORY, 62(1): 42-69, 2020The determinants of the emergence of Turin as the first capital of Italian Fashion Industry (1900–1960)
FASHION THEORY, 24(3): 325-348, 2020Trends in the fashion business: Spain and Italy in comparison, 1973–2013
ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY, 21 (1), pp. 79-109 , 2020Italian luxury goods industry on the move: SMEs and global value chains
Global luxury, pp. 39-63, 2017Teaching
30067