Mission
NOIS center aims at fostering high standards of research quality, international collaboration, and methodological innovation.
It promotes cooperation with firms and institutions to contribute to a culture of strategic and organizational innovation, offering new ideas, tools, methods.
Scope and approach
NOIS center promotes and develops research on the broad area of networks and inter-organizational relationships. Its multidisciplinary approach spans from strategy, organization, innovation processes to economics, applied mathematics, and social sciences in general.
National Observatory of Inter-firm Networks
NOIS is the founding partner of the National Observatory of Inter-firm Networks, together with our partners Infocamere and Retimpresa.
The Observatory collects data on the evolution of Italian interfirm networks through an annual research project.
Highlights
2023
NOIS Seminar on Network and data science for the Sustainable Development Goals
May 2023
Prof. Elisa Omodei holds the seminar “Network and data science for the Sustainable Development Goals: food insecurity as a case study”.
NOIS Seminar on Effectiveness and Emergence of Organizational Controls
May 2023
Prof. Friederike Wall holds the seminar “Effectiveness and Emergence of Organizational Controls: An Agent-based Perspective”.
NOIS Seminar on Platform-based Ecosystems and Multiplexity
January 2023
Claudio Giacchetti presents and discusses his research idea on Platform-based Ecosystems.
Maria Martini Barzolai, Marco Tolotti, and Paolo Pellizzari present and discuss their paper on Multiplexity.
2022
“Multiplexity” - The fourth NOIS meeting of the Perspectives series
December, 2022
How do we conceive multiplexity? Which are the aspects of networks and network dynamics that the multiplexity allows to better uncover? Which are the puzzles that the literature still does not resolve and that could benefit from considering multiplexity? How can our research benefit from taking into account multiplexity?
NOIS Workshop
May, 2022
The workshop is the occasion to present and discuss the developments of the contributions
submitted in answer to the call for chapters for the NOIS book
NOIS Seminar on the Evolution of Interorganizational Networks
April, 2022
Maria Martini Barzolai, Paolo Pellizzari e Marco Tolotti present and discuss their paper.
“A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Network Studies” - NOIS Workshop
February, 2022
The workshop is the occasion to present and discuss the developments of the contributions submitted in answer to the call for chapters for the NOIS book titled “A multi-disciplinary approach to network studies”
2021
“Models and Networks” - The third NOIS meeting of the Perspectives series
December, 2021
How can the studies based on network models shed new light on the studies that explore networks from an organizational/managerial perspective, and vice versa? Researchers discuss the answers to these questions during the third NOIS meeting of the Perspectives series.
NOIS Seminar on Simmelian Ties
December, 2021
Sasha Piccione presents and discusses her paper.
“A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Network Studies” – NOIS Workshop
October 2021
The workshop is the occasion to present and discuss the contributions submitted in answer to the call for chapters for the NOIS book titled “A multi-disciplinary approach to network studies”.
NOIS Seminar on Data Analytics and Machine Learning
July 2021
Andrea Pontiggia and Giovanni Fasano present and discuss their paper.
NOIS Seminar on Interorganizational Collaboration
June 2021
Francesca Bacco and Anna Comacchio present and discuss their paper.
NOIS Seminar on Multi-unit Assignment Problem
April 2021
Antonio Romero-Medina and Matteo Triossi present and discuss their paper.
“Network Structure & Agency” - The second NOIS meeting of the Perspectives series
February 2021
The relation between structure and agency is a central debate in network studies. How do we understand such a relation? How do we approach it? Researchers discuss these questions during the second NOIS meeting of the Perspectives series.
NOIS Seminar on Governance and Innovation Performance in Networks
January 2021
Stefano Li Pira, Anna Moretti and Francesco Zirpoli present and discuss their paper.