Short CV

Giulia Parola, born in Saluzzo (Italy) in 1990, started her university studies in International Trade at the University of Turin while gathering various academic and work experiences in Italy, Germany, Spain, Morocco and India. She moved to Munich in 2014 and received a Master's Degree in Life Science Economics and Policy from the Technical University of Munich. Since October 2018, Giulia has been working as a Research Associate at Munich Business School (MBS), where she is responsible for the project "YES! Young Entrepreneurs Succeed", funded by the EEA & Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. Giulia also manages a different initiative, "Stay-on: a community-based and driven project", financed by the same Fund on behalf of the European Center for Social Finance, a new competence center of MBS established in 2018. Since October 2019, Giulia is an external doctoral candidate at the the Chair of Public Management (Department of Economics and Management) at the Universität der Bundeswehr München.

 

Publications

Parola, Giulia/Spiess-Knafl, Wolfgang/Thaler, Julia (2022). The butterfly effect: How academics and practitioners’ micro-practices shape turning points in response to paradox. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 21(3), pp. 369-393. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2021.0235

Parola, Giulia (2020). Escape from parents’ basement? Post COVID-19 scenarios for the future of youth employment in Italy, in: Labour Economics Papers, 111/2020, pp. 51-71, DOI:10.3280/QUA2020-111003.

 

Conferences and Workshops

Parola, Giulia/Thaler, Julia/Solivo, Matteo (2022): What’s so good about feeling good?
Using metaphors to explore how an employment initiative changes NEETs’ mental models, Colloquium on Management of Public Tasks, Neubiberg, Germany.

Parola, Giulia/Thaler, Julia/Solivo, Matteo (2022): What’s so good about feeling good?
Using metaphors to explore how an employment initiative changes youth’s mental models, 19th Doctoral and Postdoctoral Colloquium "Management Science“, Cologne, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2022): How to successfully publish journal articles – Part 2: Navigating the publishing process, Lunch Talk at Munich Business School, Munich, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2022): How to successfully publish journal articles – Part 1: What is a good paper, Lunch Talk at Munich Business School, Munich, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2022): Average stories: Microcredit for young entrepreneurs and youth employment, Workshop EaSI TA organized by the Italian Microfinance Network, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia/Thaler, Julia/Solivo, Matteo (2022): What’s so good about feeling good? Using ZMET to explore how an employment initiative changes youth’s mental models, PhD course Publishing Journal Articles in Business, Management and Organization Studies, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Parola, Giulia/Tülü, Mine (2021): Doing research with real-world impact through project grants, Science@Lunch Seminar at Munich Business School, Munich, Germany.

Parola, Giulia/Spiess-Knafl, Wolfgang/Thaler, Julia (2021): An investigation of turning point trajectories affecting paradox management in academic-practitioner collaborations, Colloquium on Management of Public Tasks, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia/Thaler, Julia/Solivo, Matteo (2021): How do young adults perceive employment initiatives?, PDW Navigating Qualitative Dissertations, 81st Academy of Management Meeting (AoM), Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia/Spiess-Knafl, Wolfgang/Thaler, Julia (2021): Managing paradoxes of performing in academic-practitioner collaborations, Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) Virtual Paper Development Workshop II, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia (2021): The dialectic of academic-practitioner collaborations, Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) Virtual Paper Development Workshop I, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia (2020): Social exchange and identity in academic-practitioner collaborations, PhD course Qualitative Research Methods, Copenhagen Business School, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia (2020): Escape from parents' basement? Post COVID-19 scenarios for the future of youth employment in Italy, 35th National Conference of Labour Economics, Virtual Conference.

Parola, Giulia (2020): Putting a man in the labour market: Academic-practitioner collaborations in career management, Colloquium on Management of Public Tasks, Neubiberg, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2019): Explaining and linking institutional trust to job search self-efficacy: a cross-sectional study, Dynamic Capabilities & Relationships (DCR) Conference, Heilbronn, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2019): Explaining and linking institutional trust to job search self-efficacy in three disadvantaged regions in Europe: a cross-sectional study, 11th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), Glasgow, UK.

Parola, Giulia (2019): Explaining and linking institutional trust to job search self-efficacy in three disadvantaged regions in Europe: a cross-sectional study, 18th Doctoral and Postdoctoral Dolloquium "Management Science“, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Parola, Giulia (2018): Scaling trust-based partnership models to recharge youth entrepreneurship: supporting underserved communities with innovative entrepreneurship support instruments, 2nd Social Impact Investments International Conference, Rome, Italy.