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Dr. Giambattista Rossi

Positions held:
  • Senior Lecturer, 糖心logo入口 Business School
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Giambattista Rossi joined the Department of Management, 糖心logo入口 College, as a Lecturer in Management in September 2014, where he is responsible for a course module on sport labour markets.

    Previously, he studied for his undergraduate degree in economics at the Universita鈥 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan before completing an MSc in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He was awarded his PhD in Management at 糖心logo入口 College, University of London, where his research focused on the economic value of professional football players.

    From 2012 to 2014 he held the position of Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of East London (UEL) where he was also director of the postgraduate programme in sport management.

    Giambattista鈥檚 main research interest is in the area of labour markets in professional sport. In particular, he investigates the role of sport agents, third party ownership in football, athletes鈥 remuneration and their economic value, team performance and individual athletes鈥 contract duration. He has been involved in a number of research projects looking at football players鈥 transfer market and third party ownership in football.

    In 2011, he was funded with the Joao Havelange Research Scholarship awarded by the CIES (International Centre of Sport Studies) to research the activity of football player agents within the top five European football leagues.

    In 2013, Giambattista was awarded the Twitter Research Grant. In collaboration with Dr James Reade, University of Reading and Dr Dorruj Rambaccussing, University of Dundee, he used Twitter鈥檚 information to forecast the results of sport events in different sports.

    He has published a number of academic articles within the areas of economics and management using sport as the main field of investigation.

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Business Data Analysis
    • Sport Labour Markets
    • Football Management and Finance
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Csurilla, G. and Ferto, I. and Rossi, Giambattista (2026) . European Sport Management Quarterly ISSN 1618-4742.
    • Garcia Del Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista and Andreff, W. (2025) . Review of Managerial Science ISSN 1863-6683.
    • Fumarco, L. and Longley, N. and Palermo, A. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) . Oxford Economic Papers ISSN 0030-7653.
    • Mura, R. and Canini, D. and Vicentini, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) . Corporate Governance and Research & Development Studies 2024 (1), pp. 15-35. ISSN 2704-8462.
    • Pawlowski, T. and Ramirez, P. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 223, pp. 185-198. ISSN 0167鈥2681.
    • Farnall, A. and Butler, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. and Berri, D. and Bamba, E.Y. (2024) . Sports Economics Review ISSN 2773-1618.
    • Garcia-Del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) . Managerial Finance ISSN 0307-4358.
    • Neri, Lorenzo and Rossi, Giambattista (2023) . European Sport Management Quarterly 23 (4), pp. 942-962. ISSN 1618-4742.
    • Simmons, R. and Berri, D. and Butler, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Tordoff, C. (2023) . European Sport Management Quarterly ISSN 1618-4742.
    • Ozdemir, A. and Helmut, D. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2022) . Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 61 (2), pp. 137-151. ISSN 1468-232X.
    • Addesa, Francesco and Rossi, Giambattista and Pazzona, M. (2022) . Kyklos: International Review For Social Science 75 (3), pp. 365-384. ISSN 0023-5962.
    • De Stefanis, S. and Addesa, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2022) . Applied Economics 54 (58), pp. 6639-6655. ISSN 0003-6846.
    • Garcia-del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2020) . European Journal of Government and Economics 9 (2), pp. 119-142. ISSN 2254-7088.
    • Rossi, Giambattista and Goossens, D. and Di tanna, Gian Luca and Addesa, Francesco (2019) . European Sport Management Quarterly 19 (5), pp. 583-604. ISSN 1618-4742.
    • Brown, A. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) . Economic Inquiry 56 (3), pp. 1748-1763. ISSN 0095-2583.
    • Fumarco, L. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) . European Sport Management Quarterly 18 (4), pp. 501-516. ISSN 1618-4742.
    • Carmichael, F. and Rossi, Giambattista and Thomas, D. (2017) . Journal of Sports Economics 18 (1), pp. 34-57. ISSN 1527-0025.
    • Fumarco, L. and Gibbs, B.G. and Jarvis, J.A. and Rossi, Giambattista (2017) . PLoS One ISSN 1932-6203.
    • Bryson, A. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2014) . Kyklos: International Review For Social Science 67 (1), pp. 12-28. ISSN 0023-5962.
    • Barros, C. and Rossi, Giambattista (2014) . Applied Economics 46 (20), pp. 2398-2407. ISSN 0003-6846.
    • Hamil, Sean and Morrow, S. and Idle, C. and Rossi, Giambattista and Faccendini, S. Hassan, D. and Hamil, Sean, eds. (2010) . Sport in the Global Society 鈥 Contemporary Perspectives. Soccer & Society 11 (4), pp. 373-413. ISSN 1466-0970. ISBN 9780415445702.

    Book

    • Rossi, Giambattista and Semens, A. and Brocard, J.F. (2016) . Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138015227.

    Book section

    • Rossi, Giambattista (2026) . In: Andreff, W. and Chappelet, J.-L. and Kihl, L.A. (eds.) Handbook on Corruption in Sport. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781035322718. (In Press)
    • Giambattista, Rossi (2018) . In: Chadwick, S. and Parnell, D. and Widdop, P. and Anagnostopoulos, C. (eds.) Handbook of Football Business and Management. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 131-143. ISBN 9781138579071.
    • Lago, U. and Rossi, Giambattista (2004) . In: Lago, U. and Baronchelli, A. and Szymanski, S. (eds.) Il Business del Calcio. Milano, Italy: Egea.

    Monograph

    • Destefanis, S. and Addesa, F. and Rossi, Giambattista (2021) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 Sport Business Centre.
    • Garcia-del-Barrio, P. and Rossi, Giambattista (2019) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 Sport Business Centre.
    • Neri, Lorenzo and Russo, A. and Di Domizio, M. and Rossi, Giambattista (2018) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 Sport Business Centre.
    • Rossi, Giambattista and Di tanna, Gian luca and Addesa, F. (2016) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口, University of London.
    • Brown, A. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J.J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2016) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口, University of London.
    • Berri, D. and Buiramo, B. and Rossi, Giambattista and Simmons, R. (2016) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口, University of London.
    • Rossi, Giambattista and Fumarco, L. (2015) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 Working Papers Series in Management.
    • Walters, Geoff and Rossi, Giambattista (2009) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 Sport Business Centre.