Speakers

CHIESI, Antonio M.

Curriculum

Antonio M.Chiesi is professor of Methodology of the Social Sciences and director of the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. He has previously taught, as associate professor, the same subject at the University of Turin (1995-1997), Sociology of Work and Sociology of Organizations at the University of Cagliari (1992-1994), Sociology at the University of Trieste, as assistant professor (1983-1994). Since 2000 he has been appointed coordinator of the courses of Sociology at Bocconi University, Milan, where he has taught Sociology since 1983. He is also coordinator of the sociological and politological contributions in the organization of the "Master in local development for the Balkans", funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regione Trentino-Alto Adige Süd Tirol, Universities of Trento and Bolzano-Bozen.

His main research interests are threefold and can be summarized as follows:
a) theory: rational choice, collective action, macro trends and modernization;
b) applications: sociology of work, organization of economic interests;
c) methodology: social indicators, multivariate techniques, network analysis.
He has been executive secretary and member of the scientific committee of the research group on "Economy, Work and Organization" of the Italian Sociological Association (1987-1992), and member of the Board of the Research Committee on "Economy and Society" of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998). At present he is member of the international research group "Comparative Charting of Social Change" for the study of social indicators in comparative international perspective and member of the Scientific Board of "Quaderni di Sociologia. He is also member of the scientific committee of CRéDOC (Commissariat General du Plan, French Government). He has been advisor of labor unions, business interests associations and local governments (among which Milan and Genoa) on research problems related to the construction of social indicators for the implementation of social policies. In 1996 he has co founded the research group "Comunita & Impresa" for the development of a methodology in social reporting, which has been applied to a number of firms and institutions (Telecom, Electrolux, AEM, Fondazione Cariplo, Fondazione CRT, Riva Group).

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Selected publications

La societa italiana, Laterza, Bari - Roma, 2002 (with Alberto Martinelli).

"Network analysis, general", in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, Oxford, 2001.

Il bilancio sociale, Edizioni Il Sole 24 Ore, 2000, pp.212 (with A. Martinelli and M. Pellegatta).

L'analisi dei reticoli, F.Angeli, Milano, 1999, pp.255

Unemployment Policies in the Italian Labour Market, in N. Genov, "Unemployment, Risks and Reactions", Unesco, Paris, 1999.

Recent Social Trends in Italy, 1960-1995, McGill Queen's, Montreal (with A.Martinelli and Sonia Stefanizzi), 1999.

Company policies with regard to the reduction of working time in Italy, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, 1998.

Lavori e professioni. Caratteristiche e mutamenti dell'occupazione in Italia, Roma, Carocci, 1997 (two editions).

"La societa milanese nel periodo repubblicano" (with A.Martinelli), in Storia di Milano, '900, XVIII, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Treccani, Roma, 1996.

"Attori e relazioni tra attori mediante l'analisi di reticoli multipli", in Rassegna italiana di Sociologia, n.1, 1996.

"I meccanismi di allocazione nello scambio corrotto", in Stato e mercato, n.1, 1995.

Lavoro e relazioni industriali in Europa, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma,1995, (editor with I. Regalia and M. Regini).

The Logic of Membership in Chemical Business Iterests Associations, in A.Martinelli (ed.): International Markets and Global Firms, Sage, London, 1991

Sincronismi sociali. L'organizzazione temporale della societa come problema sistemico e negoziale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989, pp.271

The Capitalist class in Italy (with A.Martinelli), in T.Bottomore, R.J.Brym (eds.): The Capitalist Class: An International Study, Wheatsheaf, Brighton, 1988.