Fulvio Scognamiglio
📺 born in Naples
⏰ 10 dec, 1989
I am a Lecturer in Business and Management at London South Bank University, where I have worked since November 2024. I hold a PhD in Public Management from The Open University, with a thesis on the relationship between circular economy transitions and network governance in urban contexts. My research is situated in Public Administration and public management, with a particular interest in how knowledge, governance, and collaboration shape responses to complex public problems. My current research agenda examines the public relevance of Public Administration scholarship: how the field is defined, how its knowledge travels beyond academia, how practitioners encounter and use research, and how relationships between universities and public-sector actors might be improved.
This agenda builds on my earlier work on collaborative governance, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, public value, circular economy, and wicked problems. Across these areas, I am interested in how public actors, social enterprises, nonprofit organisations, and other stakeholders work together to address complex societal challenges. I have published on co-creation, robust governance, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, public actor–nonprofit relationships, and the role of collaborative arrangements in public value creation.
Methodologically, I work with a plural set of approaches, including systematic literature reviews, bibliometric analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, qualitative research, thematic analysis, social network analysis, and Q methodology. I am especially interested in using bibliometric and review-based methods to map the structure, boundaries, circulation, and practical relevance of Public Administration knowledge.
I also have teaching experience across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. My teaching focuses on responsible business, leadership, strategy, research methods, social entrepreneurship, and systematic literature review methodology. In both my research and teaching, I am interested in helping students, scholars, and practitioners make sense of complex problems through theoretically informed, methodologically rigorous, and practically relevant forms of knowledge.
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PhD in Public Management @The Open University
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Lecturer @London South Bank University
- Postdoc researcher @Universitá degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
- Visiting PhD Student @Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Master in Politics, Administration, and Organization @University of Bologna
- Bachelor in Political Science and International Relations @University of Naples
- Who am I? A sort of presentation - link
- I am building a large-scale bibliometric database of Public Administration scholarship, using OpenAlex data to map the field’s boundaries, intellectual structure, evolution, and relevance across disciplines, institutions, and policy contexts. See the public repository on Open Science Framework
- I am working on an umbrella review to evaluate systematic literature reviews in Public Administration, assess their methodological quality, identify common weaknesses, and develop guidance to strengthen evidence synthesis for research, policy, practice and impact.
- "Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations" - Caló et al. (2024) Public Management Review
- "The public sector and co-creation in turbulent times: A systematic literature review on robust governance in the COVID-19 emergency" - Scognamiglio et al. (2023) - Public Administration
- "Social innovation during turbulent times: a systematic literature review and research agenda" - Calò et al. (2024) - Public Management Review
- "Negotiating autonomy in the public sector and nonprofits "collaborations" in politically contested fields" - Calò et al. (2024) - Governance
- "Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias" - Sancino et al. (2024) - Voluntas
- "A comparison of city leadership constellations in Italy and the UK" - Sancino et al. (2023) - Oxford University Press
- "Navigating the Award Gap of Ethnic Minority Students" - Caló, F., et al. (2025) - In J. Baxter, H. Selby-Fell, & A. Gilbert (Eds.), "Creativity and critique in digital learning and teaching: Insights for learning design in business and law". Palgrave Macmillan
- "The Circular Transition Through the Network Governance" - Scognamiglio F. (2024) - PhD Thesis
UK Association for Public Administration (UKAPA)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "
- European Group of Public Administration (EGPA)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "
2024 - Co-Chair and Operating Committee of the XIX Standing Group "Collaborative Networks and Social Innovation"
2023 - Co-Chair and Operating Committee of the XIX Standing Group "Collaborative Networks and Social Innovation"
2021 - Presentation of the working paper "
- International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
2025 - Presentation of the working paper "
2024 - Presentation of the working paper "
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "
2021 - Presentation of the working paper "
- European Consortium for Political Research (2023)
2023 - Presentation of the working paper "
- Public Management Research Conference (PMRC)
2023 - Presentation of the working paper
- Social Outcomes Conferences: Blavatnik School of Government
2023 - Presentation of the working paper "
- European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS)
2024 - Presentation of the working paper "
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "
- Transatlantic Dialogue (TAD)
2022 - Presentation of the working paper "
- Research Assistant @ The Open University (UK) on the funded project “Understanding the dynamics of attainment gap of BAME undergraduate students in
Business and Management Schools: a systematic literature review of causes, barriers, and interventions (2022)
- Research assistant @ The University of Bergamo (Italy) on the funded project “Objective and subjective predictors of successful networks” (2021)
- Research assistant @ The Open University (UK) on the funded project “Social innovation during turbulent times: a systematic literature review and research agenda" (2021)
- Main Researcher, @ University of Brescia, on the funded project “Context and future trends of public networks”, a systematic literature review on the role of trust in the networks
- Research Assistant, @ The Open University, on the funded project "Inclusive, social, green, responsible: tracking development of academic research on unconventional innovation types and its implications for innovation studies
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Mail | scognamiglio.fulvio(at)gmail.com
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LinkedIn | Fulvio Scognamiglio
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Researchgate | Fulvio Scognamiglio