Here is a selected list of my academic output, including academic articles already published on peer-reviewed journals, policy and consultancy reports, and conference papers still work-in-progress.

Policy reports

Gerli, P. (2024). Building a Good Digital Society from the Grassroots: Harnessing the Tradition of Community-led Initiatives in the Governance of Digital Services and Infrastructures. British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/building-good-digital-society-grassroots-harnessing-tradition-community-led-initiatives-governance-digital-services-infrastructures/

UK Parliament (2024). Digital disengagement and impacts on exclusion, POSTnote 725 (contributor). https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0725/POST-PN-0725.pdf

Gerli, P., Ferreri, M., Lauri, C., Regalia, M., & Williams, A. (2024). Addressing inequalities in smart places: A primer for public administrations and third sector organisations. British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/5313/Addressing_inequalities_in_smart_places.pdf

Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2023) Managing Smart City Governance: A Playbook for Local and Regional Governments. United Nations (UN-Habitat). https://unhabitat.org/managing-smart-city-governance-a-playbook-for-local-and-regional-governments

Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., Tonnarelli, F. (2022). Global review of smart city governance practices. United Nations (UN-Habitat). https://unhabitat.org/global-review-of-smart-city-governance-practices

Whalley, J. and Gerli, P. (2019). Supporting rural communities through ICT: Healthcare, the environment and agriculture. Appendix to Telus Inc.’s Petition to the Governor in Council. Follow-up to telecom orders 2016-396 and 2016-448. https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/vwapj/CRTC-2019-288-Telus-Petition-Appendix-B-Whalley-Gerli-Report.pdf

Peer-reviewed articles

Zhang, J., Zamani, E. D., Gerli, P., & Mora, L. (2024). Co‐constructing cooperative value ecosystems: A critical realist perspective. Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12549

Akgün, E. Z., Gerli, P., Mora, L., & McTigue, C. (2024). Breaking barriers for breaking ground: A categorisation of public sector challenges to smart city project implementation. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241263233

Gerli, P., Mora, L., Zhang, J., & Sancino, A. (2024). Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 202, 123342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123342

Mora, L., Gerli, P., Ardito, L., & Petruzzelli, A. M. (2023). Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda. Technovation, 123, 102717. 

Gerli, P., Clement, J., Esposito, G., Mora, L., & Crutzen, N. (2022). The hidden power of emotions: How psychological factors influence skill development in smart technology adoption. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 180, 121721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121721

Gerli, P., Navio Marco, J., & Whalley, J. (2022). What makes a smart village smart? A review of the literature. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-07-2021-0126

Gerli, P. (2021). Municipal 5G bans during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Italy. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-07-2020-0091

Gerli, P., Navio-Marco, J., & Whalley, J. (2022). The Multilevel Governance of State Aid for Broadband Diffusion: Evidence from Three European Countries. International Journal of Public Administration, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.1993904

Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2021). Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK. Telecommunications Policy, 45(10), 102222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102222

Gerli, P., Arakpogun, E.O., Elsahn, Z., Olan, F., Prime, K.S. (2020). Beyond contact-tracing: The public value of eHealth application in a pandemic, Government Information Quarterly, 101581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2021.101581

Arakpogun, E.O., Elsahn, Z., Prime, K.S., Gerli, P., Olan, F. (2020). Digital contact-tracing and pandemics: Institutional and technological preparedness in Africa, World Development, 136, 105105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105105

Gerli P., Matteucci, N., Whalley J. (2019). Infrastructure Provision on the Margins: An Assessment of Broadband Delivery UK, International Journal of Public Administration, 43(6), 540-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1638932

Gerli P., Van der Wee M., Verbrugge S., Whalley J. (2018). The involvement of utilities in the development of broadband infrastructure: A comparison of EU case studies, Telecommunications Policy, 42(9), 726-743, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2018.03.001

Gerli P., Wainwright, D., & Whalley, J. (2017). Infrastructure investment on the margins of the market: The role of niche infrastructure providers in the UK, Telecommunications Policy, 41(9), 743-756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2017.03.005

Books and book chapters

Gerli, P.; and Whalley, J. (2022) The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK. In: Attorp, A., Heron, S. and McAreavey, R. (Eds). Rural Governance in the UK (p. 162-179). Routledge. 

Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2022). Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural-urban digital divide. In: Keyhani, M., Kollmann, T., Ashjari, A., Sorgner, A. and Hull, C. (Eds.). Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship (pp. 291-305). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Gerli P., Pontarollo E. (2013). La concorrenza negata. I comportamenti strategici nella telefonia fissa [Denied competition: anticompetitive behaviours in fixed telecommunications], Vita e Pensiero: Milano.

Conference papers

Gerli, P., Ferreri, M., Lauri, C., Regalia, M., Williams, A. (2023). Mapping inequalities in smart cities: insights from Scotland and Italy, paper presented at 62nd ERSA Conference, Alicante, August 2023)

Gerli, P., Whalley, J. (2021). Public-Private Partnerships for Broadband Diffusion: A Comparison of EU Case Studies, paper presented at 48th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington DC, 17-19 February 2021.

Gerli, P., Navio Marco, J., Whalley, J. (2020). Does the Multilevel Governance of State Aid Encourage Broadband Diffusion? Evidence from Three European Countries, paper presented at 47th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Washington DC, 20-21 September 2019.

Gerli, P. (2019). Community broadband networks and rural digital divide: A UK case study, paper presented at Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference, Honolulu (US), 20th-23rd January 2019.

Gerli P., Whalley J. (2018) Fibre to the countryside: a comparison of public and community initiatives in the UK, paper presented at 29th International Telecommunications Society conference, Trento University, Trento (Italy), 1St– 3rd August 2018.

Gerli P., Van der Wee M., Verbrugge S., Whalley J. (2017). The involvement of utilities in the development of broadband infrastructure: A comparison of EU case studies, paper presented at 28th International Telecommunications Society conference, Passau University, Passau (Germany), 30th July – 2nd August 2017.

Gerli P., Whalley J. (2016). Infrastructure investment on the margins of the market: The role of niche infrastructure providers in the UK, paper presented at 27th International Telecommunications Society conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK), 7th-9th September 2016.