- The “new” economic professions in Italy, with a special attention on their evolution, their area of action, the labour market, the gender balance.
- The history of professions, especially the economic-accounting, legal and technical ones, investigating their transformations, the social and political dynamics on which they have a central position, their role in economic modernization.
- The professional elites and corporate governance in Italy and on a comparative level.
- The history of technical education and the history of educational institutions from the XIX century to the present.
- The professions and the regional political-administrative institutions.
- Biographies of a single entrepreneur.
