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Gianluca Spina

From 2011 Gianluca Spina (January 6, 1964 – February 21, 2015) was President and Dean of MIP Politecnico di Milano – today POLIMI Graduate School of Management, Full Professor in Business Management and Supply Chain Management at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, and President of Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Gestionale (Italian Association of Management Engineering) for the two-years period 2011-2013.

Under his leadership the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano entered the Financial Times ranking among the most prestigious Business Schools in the world.

Biography
Academic career
Major publications

Biografia

Gianluca Spina graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering in 1988 and since 1990 has taught Management and Business Economics in various study programs of Politecnico di Milano.

He was President of the Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Gestionale for the two-years period 2011-2013 and since 2001 he has been at the helm of MIP Politecnico di Milano (now POLIMI Graduade School of Management), first as Director and since 2011 as President and Dean.

In this role, Gianluca Spina has given impetus to the internationalization of the School, obtaining the EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development and creating several partnerships with prestigious management schools in Europe, Asia and Americas.

Under his leadership, MIP entered the Financial Times rankings as one of the top 100 business and management schools in the world.

Throughout his career he was a member of several international scientific associations and was nominated as Fellow of the European Operations Management Association.

Professor Spina has placed management engineering and management education at the center of his career, always highlighting its fundamental social value both for individuals and for the development of the society.

In his last years Gianluca has often asked himself the question of what the future of education would be and has stimulated continuous innovation in methodologies, contents and teaching formats.

He passed away on February 21, 2015 during a tragic accident in the mountains.

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ACCADEMICA

Since 2000, Gianluca Spina has been Full Professor of Business Management at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano.

His research interests have covered the areas of industrial production, purchasing and supply chain relationships, with a focus on strategic and organizational aspects. He has been the author of about 180 publications on these topics, including 6 books and over 30 articles in international scientific journals.

Principali

PUBBLICAZIONI

A1.       Bartezzaghi E., Spina G. e Turco F., “The Impact of the Just-in-Time Approach on Production System Performance: A Survey of Italian Industry”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 12, n.1, 1992, pp. 5-17.

A2.       Bartezzaghi E., Spina G. e Verganti R., “Lead-Time Models of Business Processes”, in International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol. 14, n. 5, 1994, pp. 5-20.     

A3.       Spina G., Bartezzaghi E., Cagliano R., Bert A., Draaijer D. e Boer H., “Strategically Flexible Production: the Multi-focused Manufacturing Paradigm”, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, vol.16, no. 11, 1996, pp. 20-41.

A4.       Bartezzaghi E., Spina G. e Verganti R., “Strategically Flexible Production and the Extra-firm Infrastructures: How Regions Become Attractive”, Integrated Manufacturing Systems – The Int.  Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Special Issue on Manufacturing Strategy., vol. 8, no. 5, 1997, pp. 333-347.

A5.       Spina G., “Manufacturing Paradigms versus Strategic Approaches: a Misleading Contrast”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 18, no. 8, 1998, pp. 684-709.

A6.       Cagliano R., Spina G., Verganti R., e Zotteri G. “Designing BPR Support Services for Small Firms”, Int. J. of Operations and Production Management, vol. 18, no 9, 1998, pp. 865-885.

A7.       Spina G., Campanella N. e Codeluppi G., “Make vs Buy vs Partnership in Distributing Commodities: A Case Study and A Methodology” in Integrated Manufacturing Systems, vol. 11. No.2, 2000, pp.112-120.

A8.       Spina G. e Zotteri G., “The Implementation Process of Customer-Supplier Partnership: Lessons from a Clinical Perspective”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 20, no.10, 2000, pp. 1164-1182.

A9.       Cagliano R. e Spina G., “Advanced manufacturing technologies and strategically flexible production”, Journal of Operations Management, Vol.18, No.2, 2000, pp. 169-190.

A10.     Cagliano R. and Spina G., “How improvement programmes of manufacturing are selected: the role of strategic priorities and past experience”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 20, No. 7, 2000, pp.772-791.

A11.     Spina G. and Zotteri G., “The strategic context of customer-supplier partnerships: evidence from a global survey”, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol.12, no. 7, 2001, pp.483-492.

A12.     Spina G., Verganti R., Zotteri G., “Factors influencing co-design adoption: drivers and internal consistency”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 22, No. 12, 2002, pp.1354-1366.

A13.     Spina G., Verganti R., Zotteri G., “A model of codesign relationships: definitions and contingencies”, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol.23, No.4, 2002, pp.304-321

A14.     Cagliano R. and Spina G., “A comparison of practice-performance models between small manufacturers and subcontractors”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 22, No. 12, 2002, pp.1367-1388.

A15.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Spina G., “E-business strategy: How companies are shaping their supply chain through the Internet”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol.23, No.10, 2003, pp. 1142-1162.

A16.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Spina G., “Lean, Agile and traditional supply: how they impact manufacturing performance?”, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, No. 10, Issue 4-5, 2004, pp.151-164.

A17.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Spina G., “Reconsidering e-business strategy and the impact on supply chains”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol.25, No.12, 2005, pp. 1328-1332.

A18.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Corso M., Spina G., “Collaborative improvement in the extended manufacturing enterprise: lessons from an action research process”, Production Planning & Control, Vol. 16, No.4, 2005, pp.345-355.

A19.     Cagliano R., Caniato F. and Spina G., “The linkage between supply chain integration and manufacturing improvement programmes”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol.26, No.3, 2006, pp. 282-289.

A20.     Loppacher J.S., Luchi R., Cagliano R., Spina G., “Global Sourcing and Procurement Strategy: A Model of Interrelated Decisions”, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, Vol. 7, No.1, 2006, pp.34-46.

A21.     Brun A., Caniato F., Caridi M., Castelli C., Miragliotta G., Ronchi S., Sianesi A., Spina G., “Logistics and supply chain management in luxury fashion retail: empirical investigation of Italian firms”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 114, No. 2, 2008, pp. 554-570.

A22.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Golini R., Kalchschmidt M., Spina G., “Supply chain configurations in a global environment: A longitudinal perspective”, Operations Management Research, Vol. 1, 2008, pp. 86-94.

A23.     Luzzini D., Ronchi S., Spina G., “Supply Chain Coordination: The Problem of Risk And Benefit Sharing”, Supply Chain Forum, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008, pp. 54-65.

A24.     Cagliano R., Caniato F., Golini R., Kalchschmidt M., Spina G., “Evolutionary patterns in e-business strategy”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 29, No. 9, 2009, pp. 921-945.

A25.     Loppacher J.S., Cagliano R., Spina G, “Key factors in a global supply headquarters-subsidiary control systems”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 21, No.7, 2010, pp.794-817.

A26.     Loppacher J.S., Cagliano R., Spina G, “Key drivers of buyer-supplier relationships in global sourcing strategies”, International Journal of Procurement Management, Vol. 4, No.2, 2011, pp. 156-180.

A27.     Loppacher J.S., Cagliano R., Spina G, “Key dimensions of global supply strategy: a model of interrelated decisions”, International Journal of Procurement Management, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2011, pp. 455-482.

A28.     Luzzini, D., Caniato, F., Ronchi, S., Spina, G. (2012) “A transaction cost approach to purchasing portfolio management”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1015-1042.

A29.     Spina, G., Caniato, F., Luzzini, D., Ronchi, S. (2013) “Past, present and future trends of purchasing and supply management: An extensive literature review”, Industrial Marketing Management, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 1202-1212.

A30.     Cagliano, R., Caniato, F., Longoni, A., Spina, G. (2014) “Alternative uses of temporary work and new forms of work organization”, Production Planning and Control, Vol. 25, No. 9, pp. 762-782.

A31.     Caniato, F., Caridi, M., Moretto, A., Sianesi, A., Spina, G. (2014) “Integrating international fashion retail into new product development”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 147 (part B), pp. 294-306.

A32.     Luzzini, D., Caniato, F., Spina, G. (2014) “Designing vendor evaluation systems: An empirical analysis”, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 113-129

A33.     Spina, G., Caniato, F., Luzzini, D., Ronchi, S. (2014) “Assessing the use of External Grand Theories in Purchasing and Supply Management research”, Joiurnal of Purchasing and Supply Management, DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2015.07.001

A34.     Caniato, F., Crippa, L., Pero, M., Sianesi, A., Spina, G. (2015) “Internationalisation and outsourcing of operations and product development in the fashion industry”, Production Planning and Control, Vol. 26, No. 9, pp. 706-722.

A35.     Luzzini, D., Brandon-Jones E., Brandon-Jones A., Spina, G. (2015) “From sustainability commitment to performance: The role of intra- and inter-firm collaborative capabilities in the upstream supply chain”, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 165, pp. 51-63.

B1.       Perona M., Spina G. e Turco F., “Success Measure of Just-in-Time: Shifting Manufacturing Trade-Offs. A Field Research in Italy”, selected paper in Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems (edited by Satir A.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1991, pp. 333-349.

B2.       Spina G. e Verganti R., “Process Specialization versus Integration: Why the Trade-Off is Shifting”, selected paper in International Operations: Crossing Borders in Manufacturing and Service (edited by Hollier R.H., Boaden R.J. and New S.J.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992, pp. 311-316.

B3.       Spina G. e Verganti R., “Designing and implementing CIM to support the Lean Production paradigm”, in Realising CIM’s Industrial Potential (edited by Kooji C., Mac Connaill, P.A. e Bastos J.), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1993, vol. 2, pp. 268-278.

B4.       Bartezzaghi E., Spina G. e Verganti R., “Modelling the Lead-Time of Operations Processes”, selected paper in Service Operations – The Design and Delivery of Effective Service Operations (edited by Johnston R. e Slack N.D.C.), Operations Management Association UK, 1993, pp. 117-124.

B5.       Bartezzaghi E. e Spina G., “Italian Assembly Industry Facing Globalisation and Innovation”, Cap. 8 in International Manufacturing Strategies: Context Content and Change – A Worldwide Study of Compettive priorities and Decision Areas, (a cura di Voss C.A. Blackmoon K. e Lindberg P.), Kluwer 1998.

B6.       Spina G., Bartezzaghi E., Cagliano R., Bert A., Draaijer D. e Boer H., “The Multi-focused Manufacturing Paradigm: Adoption and Performance Improvements within the Assembly Industry”, Cap. 26 in International Manufacturing Strategies: Context Content and Change – A Worldwide Study of Compettive Priorities and Decision Areas, (a cura di Voss C.A. Blackmoon K. e Lindberg P.), Kluwer 1998.

B7.       Bartezzaghi E., Filippini R., Spina G. e Vinelli A. (a cura di), Managing Operations Networks, SGE Padova, 1999