Paola Arrigoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 388149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Arrigoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Arrigoni |
| SIGNATURE | ARRIGONI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Philanthropic foundations as field-builders: Insights from two emblematic Italian cases
To date, the scholars who have studied Italian philanthropic foundations have mainly focused on their function as the funders of various kinds of initiatives or policies. Only rarely have they investigated the foundations’ input to policymaking processes, while virtually never examining foundations’ role as field builders, that is to say, as actors with the power to influence how fields are defined and delimited in the context of policymaking. Dr…
Relaunching the Italian energy transition: Are incumbent electric utilities moving from resistance to support
Incumbents, such as major companies that dominate conventional electricity production, have traditionally been viewed as opponents of energy transition. However, recent scholarship suggests that a more nuanced understanding of their evolving role in energy systems transformation is needed. Drawing on this strand of research, as well as policy literature on business politics, organised interests and lobbying, the paper develops an original analyti…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
In un diverso Stato
L’articolo si propone di indagare la trasformazione del ruolo dei principali attori filantropico-finanziari italiani - le fondazioni di origine bancaria - nel policy-making nei campi del welfare e della sanità nel contesto emergenziale della pandemia.Per fare questo, l’articolo si apre introducendo le caratteristiche fondamentali delle FOB e del loro rapporto con le politiche pubbliche per come era fino allo scoppio della pandemia.In particolare …
Standing in the space between fields: The interstitial power of elites in Italian banking foundations
In this article, I explore interstitiality - a concept based on Gil Eyal's notion of 'spaces between fields' - as a potential heuristic lens for observing contemporary elites, applying it to high-ranking figures in the Compagnia San Paolo (CSP). CSP is a banking foundation ( Fondazione di origine bancaria or FOB) that was set up in the 1990s arising from the privatization of the Italian banking sector. After outlining the theoretical underpinning…
Perché e come studiare la filantropia: Appunti per un’agenda di ricerca
The current debate on philanthropy, while following the established research path on the nature and social determinants of giving, considers the close interweaving of charity and business as the distinctive, innovative core of the phenomenon.The article aims at moving this debate forward by outlining a research agenda on the most recent developments of philanthropy at the global level and identifying four main directions of investigation: philant…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Standing in the space between fields: The interstitial power of elites in Italian banking foundations
In this article, I explore interstitiality - a concept based on Gil Eyal's notion of 'spaces between fields' - as a potential heuristic lens for observing contemporary elites, applying it to high-ranking figures in the Compagnia San Paolo (CSP). CSP is a banking foundation ( Fondazione di origine bancaria or FOB) that was set up in the 1990s arising from the privatization of the Italian banking sector. After outlining the theoretical underpinning…
Perché e come studiare la filantropia: Appunti per un’agenda di ricerca
The current debate on philanthropy, while following the established research path on the nature and social determinants of giving, considers the close interweaving of charity and business as the distinctive, innovative core of the phenomenon.The article aims at moving this debate forward by outlining a research agenda on the most recent developments of philanthropy at the global level and identifying four main directions of investigation: philant…
In un diverso Stato
L’articolo si propone di indagare la trasformazione del ruolo dei principali attori filantropico-finanziari italiani - le fondazioni di origine bancaria - nel policy-making nei campi del welfare e della sanità nel contesto emergenziale della pandemia.Per fare questo, l’articolo si apre introducendo le caratteristiche fondamentali delle FOB e del loro rapporto con le politiche pubbliche per come era fino allo scoppio della pandemia.In particolare …
Standing in the space between fields: The interstitial power of elites in Italian banking foundations
In this article, I explore interstitiality - a concept based on Gil Eyal's notion of 'spaces between fields' - as a potential heuristic lens for observing contemporary elites, applying it to high-ranking figures in the Compagnia San Paolo (CSP). CSP is a banking foundation ( Fondazione di origine bancaria or FOB) that was set up in the 1990s arising from the privatization of the Italian banking sector. After outlining the theoretical underpinning…
Philanthropic foundations as field-builders: Insights from two emblematic Italian cases
To date, the scholars who have studied Italian philanthropic foundations have mainly focused on their function as the funders of various kinds of initiatives or policies. Only rarely have they investigated the foundations’ input to policymaking processes, while virtually never examining foundations’ role as field builders, that is to say, as actors with the power to influence how fields are defined and delimited in the context of policymaking. Dr…
Relaunching the Italian energy transition: Are incumbent electric utilities moving from resistance to support
Incumbents, such as major companies that dominate conventional electricity production, have traditionally been viewed as opponents of energy transition. However, recent scholarship suggests that a more nuanced understanding of their evolving role in energy systems transformation is needed. Drawing on this strand of research, as well as policy literature on business politics, organised interests and lobbying, the paper develops an original analyti…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Elite (2 works) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)