Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Engineering and Public Policy

Adjunct Faculty
The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Welcome to the Antonino Vaccaro's webpage at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy of Carnegie Mellon University.

Antonino has currently a double appointment in Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy and in the Catholic University of Lisbon, School of Business and Economics where he serves respectively as Research Fellow and as Executive Director of the Center for Ethics, Business and Economics www.fcee.lisboa.ucp.pt/cebe.

Antonino’s research interests concern the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on firms, innovation capabilities and the ethical issues associated with the use of ICTs in organizations.

Antonino has worked on several projects of consultancy and applied research. Among others he has collaborated with: Southern Company (Atlanta, Georgia, US), Alcoa (Pittsburgh, USA),  Artsana Group (Como, Italy), Tecnotre (Verona, Italy) , Volkswagen Autoeuropa (Lisbon, Portugal), Centro Ricerche Fiat (Turin, Italy) and the IN+ Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (Lisbon, Portugal).

Antonino is currently working in several research projects with Prof. Francisco Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Stefano Brusoni (Bocconi University), Prof. Peter Madsen (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Ronaldo Parente (Rutgers University), Prof. Dalia Patino Echeverri (Duke University), Prof. Luciano Floridi (Oxford University), Hugo Horta (IST, Lisbon & Carnegie Mellon University) and Matteo Turilli (Oxford University).

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 15 November 1975
Citizenship: Italian
E-mail: vaccaro@andrew.cmu.edu; vaccaro@lisboa.ucp.pt

Education

Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                         Pittsburgh, USA
Research Fellow in Technology Policy and Management (since March 2007)               

Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon)                                                                              Lisbon, Portugal
Ph.D in Industrial Management and Policy (March 2007)

ISTUD/Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
(Joint Degree)                                           
Milan, Italy
Master in Supply Chain Management and Global Economy (October 2001)

Politecnico of Milan                                                                                                        Milan, Italy
Master of Engineering (Laurea, 5-year degree) (October 2001)

Working Experience

Current Appointments

Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Research Fellow

Catholic University of Lisbon – School of Business and Economics
Executive Director and co-founder of the Center for Ethics, Business and Economics (www.fcee.lisboa.ucp.pt/cebe )

Teaching

Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                        

Head of Teaching Assistants and Invited Lecturer at the Tepper School of Business (Fall, 2006). Course “Statistics and Decision Making.”

Teaching Assistant at the H.J. Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. Course   “Computer, Ethics and Society.”

Invited Lecturer in the courses of “Science and Technology Policy” (Prof. Francisco Veloso, Engineering and Public Policy, School of Engineering), “Ethical Issues in Management” (Prof. Peter Madsen, Heinz School of Public Policy), and “Ethical Judgments in Professional Life” (Prof. Peter Madsen).

Other Activities

Organization Chair of the Conference “ Network Ethics: The new Challenge in Business, ICT and Education”, www.fcee.lisboa.ucp.pt/network ,  June 25-27 November 2009.  A collaborative event between Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for Ethics, Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Lisbon, University of Oxford and University of Northern Iowa.

Conference Co-Chair of the “IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science” 2009, Mini- Track “Personal and Organizational Relationships in a Global Networked World: Emergent Ethical Challenges”,  http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu   

Organization Chair of the Conference  “Transparency and Corporate Social Responsibility” www.cmu.edu/transparency2007 ,  November 7-9  2007. A collaborative event between Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for Ethics, Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Lisbon and University of Virginia.

Co-founder of the Transparency Initiative @ Carnegie Mellon http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/transparency/.

Awards and Grants

 “A study on relationship transparency and public environmental awareness”
(35,000 $), granted by Southern Company, Atlanta 2007.

“Knowledge reuse for innovation and the microfoundations of spillovers”, 2007 (Principal Research Investigator, Prof. Francisco Veloso), Grant from Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (40,000$).

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia grant n. SFRH/BPD/27097/2007 (157,000 euros) in collaboration with CESPRI, Bocconi (Prof. Stefano Brusoni) University and the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dr. Andrea Adamo).

Winner of the post-doctoral scholarship at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Reference SFRH/BPD/27097/2006.

Winner of the doctoral scholarship at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, reference SFRH/BD/17214/2004.

Winner of the doctoral scholarship of Politecnico of Turin, Bergamo University Doctoral program “Economy and Management of Technology”.

Winner of an EU scholarship to attend Masters program in Supply Chain Management and Global Economy, 1998.

Languages

Italian – native speaker
Proficient in English (TOEFL 260/300)
Proficient in Portuguese

List of Publications

Technology and Innovation Management

Vaccaro A., Brusoni S., Veloso F. 2008. The Impact of Virtual Technologies on Organization Knowledge Creation: an Empirical Study, Proceedings of HICSS-41 IEEE System Science 2008, pp. 523-533.

Vaccaro A., Veloso F., Brusoni S. 2008. The Impact of Virtual Technologies on Knowledge-Based Processes: An Empirical Study, invited to Revise and Resubmit to Research Policy.

Vaccaro A., Veloso F., Brusoni S. 2007. Replication as Process: Simplification and Deepening in the Design Space of Hybrid Engines, submitted to Journal of Management Studies

Vaccaro A., Veloso, F., Parente R. 2007.Virtual Knowledge Management, Innovation Capabilities, and Firm Performance, Submitted to Information and Management.

Vaccaro A., Foglizzo P. 2004. La deregolamentazione del mercato elettrico in Italia (The Deregulation of the Energy Market in Italy) , Aggiornamenti Sociali,  November, pp.539-550.

Vaccaro A.,  F. Veloso. 2005. The role of ICT on technological knowledge based processes: an empirical investigation, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Lodz 6-8 July.

Business and Information Ethics

Vaccaro A. 2008. Information Ethics as MacroEthics: Perspectives for further Research, American Philosophical Association Newsletter, 7(2), 16-17.

Madsen P.,Vaccaro A. 2008. The Parmalat Case, in Case Studies in Business ethics, Eds.  Gini A., Marcoux A., Prentice Hall.

Vaccaro A., Madsen P. 2008. Corporate Transparency: The new ICT-Driven Ethics?, Submitted to Journal of Business Ethics.

Vaccaro A., Madsen P. 2008. ICT and an NGO: Difficulties in Attempting to be Extremely Transparent Submitted to Ethics and Information Technology.

Turilli M., Vaccaro A., Floridi L. 2008. Network Neutrality: A new Ethical paradox? Forthcoming in Proceedings of ETHICOMP 2008.

Vaccaro A., Madsen P. 2007. ICT, Non Governmental Organizations and Transparency: Ethical Concerns and Perspectives, Proceedings of CEPE 2007 pp. 410-423.

Vaccaro A. 2006. Privacy, Security and Transparency: ICT-related ethical perspectives and contrasts in contemporary firms. In D. Howcroft, E.  Trauth , J. I. DeGross (Eds). Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems. New York. U.S.: Springer.

Vaccaro A.,  Madsen, P. 2006. Firms’ Information Transparency: Ethical questions in the Information Age. In J. Berleur (Eds.) Social Informatics: An Information Society for All?  New York. U.S.: Springer.

Horta H., Vaccaro A. 2006. Transparency and ICT: accountability perspectives in the University Sector, in: Transparency, and Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education, Eds. (A. Vaccaro, H. Horta, P. Madsen), Philosophical Documentation Center.

Books

Transparency,  Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business
and Education with H. Horta, P. Madsen, Philosophical Documentation Center, (forthcoming, September 2008). http://www.pdcnet.org/tict.html

Working Papers

Patiño Echeverri, D., Vaccaro A., Newell, R.G. “Perceived Transparency: Ethics and Public Policy in the electricity sector”, Duke University Working Paper, N 111575.

Vaccaro A., Turilli M.,  Floridi L. Network Neutrality: A new Ethical paradox?,  Accepted for Presentation at the ETHICOMP 2008.

Vaccaro A., Veloso F., Brusoni S., The Virtualization of Knowledge Creation Processes: a longitudinal analysis of the Nonaka’s temporal sequence, (Accepted for presentation  to the Academy of Management Conference 2008).