Vincenzo Vignieri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law and Business Studies, University of Siena (Italy), where he teaches Business Administration. Formerly, he served as an Adjunct Professor in Business and Public Management at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Palermo (Italy), where he taught Business Administration, Business Performance Analysis, and Performance Management in programs at master and doctoral level. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Management and Governance from the University of Palermo. During his Ph.D. studies, he spent a term at the University of Bergen (Norway) and the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Netherlands). He also has been visiting scholar at the University of Baltimore (USA).
Main research areas cover Business and Public Management with a priority focus on performance management and policy analysis in cross-boundary settings, public service co-production, urban and rural regeneration, local development, and open innovation. In these research fields, he uses the System Dynamics Methodology as a method enabling a better understanding of complex social systems behavior. In these domains, Vincenzo Vignieri has published several articles in academic and professional journals. He also has experience as a policy analyst for the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Italian Agency for Territorial Cohesion.