Valentina Fava

CURRENT POSITION:

Associate professor in Economic History, Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

LINES OF RESEARCH:

Valentina Fava, Associate Professor of Economic History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, conducts research in business and industrial history, focusing on the transformation of production systems in the contemporary period and on the relationships between firms, labor, and local territories. Her work explores long-term corporate strategies, organizational and technical innovation with a specific focus on the automotive industry. Within this framework, she also investigates heritage marketing and corporate storytelling, analyzing how companies mobilize their historical and cultural heritage as strategic resources for branding, communication, and value creation in contemporary markets.

DISCIPLINARY GROUP:

STEC-01/B

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San Roman, Elena, Jorge Hernandez-Baraona, Valentina Fava, and Elena Prokoveva. 2026. “Big Business as Political Actors: FIAT, SEAT and VAZ in Nationalist Economic Contexts (1940–1973).” Business History 68.

Fava, Valentina. 2025. “Innovation Policy and Deep Transitions: Instruments, Institutions and Implementation in Complex Contexts.” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 38: 563–569.

Fava, Valentina. 2023. “Inside the Black Box: In Search of Conceptual Tools for Evaluating and Designing Social Innovative Practices.” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 36: 155–157.

Fava, Valentina. 2023. “From Transport History to History of Sustainable Mobility.” In The Green Transition of the Automotive Industry, 45–66. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fava, Valentina, and Volodymyr Kulikov. 2022. “Recent Trends in the Business History of Russia: The Blurry Borders of the Discipline.” Business History Review 96: 325–351.

Fava, Valentina, and Lenka Kratka. 2021. “Business Travels and Cold War Mobilities.” The Journal of Transport History 42: 347–359.

Fava, Valentina. 2021. “A Tale of Two Socialist Enterprises: Production and Decision-Making at Škoda Auto and AvtoVAZ, 1960–1980.” Entreprises et histoire 103: 90–106.

Dienel, Hans-Liudger, and Valentina Fava. 2021. “Digital and Sustainable Innovation Policies in Europe: Comparative Lessons.” Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 34: 423–425.

Fava, Valentina, Stefano Musso, and Paolo Raspadori. 2020. “La storia del lavoro alla luce delle fonti degli archivi di impresa.” In Archivi d’impresa. Archivisti, storici, heritage manager di fronte al cambiamento, 1–20. Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana (ANAI).

Fava, Valentina. 2019. “Between Business Interests and Ideological Marketing: The USSR and the Cold War in FIAT Corporate Strategy, 1957–1972.” Journal of Cold War Studies 20 (4): 26–64.

Fava, Valentina, and L. Gatejel. 2017. “East–West Cooperation in the Automotive Industry: Enterprises, Mobility, Production.” The Journal of Transport History 38 (1): 11–19

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.