Alessia Sammarra, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the University of L'Aquila. She also teaches courses in organizational behaviour and organization theory at the Faculty of Psychology of the University La Sapienza of Rome and collaborates as senior researcher with the School of Management of the University Luiss Guido Carli.
She received her PhD in Organisational Behaviour and Theory at the University of Molise. She was visiting research scholar at the Department of Speech Communication of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (08/1998-12/1999).
In 2000 she earned a grant from the European Science Foundation for the admission to the European Summer Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Economic Organization.
Since 2000 she participates as senior researcher in two international research consortia funded by the European Commission.

Her main research interests include inter-organisational networks and industrial districts, the impact of ICT on organisational structures and processes, organizational design, human resources management and organizational identity.