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Stefano Tasselli received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the Innovation Management group. His previous professional experience includes consulting in McKinsey and Company. 

His research focus is on organizational social networks; social networks, leadership and innovation; and organizational theory. He is currently the Chair of the Social Network Society.

He received notable recognition for his research and teaching. He has been selected by Poets and Quants as one of the '40 World's Best Business Professors under 40' and by ASFOR as the 'Best Italian Business Professor under 40'. He has been included by Thinkers50 in the radar of the thirty more innovative business thinkers. He bas been Knighted by the President of Italy.

His work has been published, among the other outlets, in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, Annual Review of Psychology, Social Networks and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Journal and of the Journal of Management Studies. He has disseminated his work to the business community through articles published, among the other venues, in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Medium Authority, Il Sole 24 Ore, Corriere della Sera and La Stampa. 

Publications

Academic (19)
  • Grillo, F., Wiegmann, P. M., de Vries, H. J., Bekkers, R., Tasselli, S., Yousefi, A., & van de Kaa, G. (Accepted/In press). Standardization: Research Trends, Current Debates, and Interdisciplinarity. Academy of Management Annals.

  • Tonellato, M., Tasselli, S., Conaldi, G., Lerner, J., & Lomi, A. (2024). A Microstructural Approach to Self-Organizing: The Emergence of Attention Networks. Organization Science, 35(2), 496-524. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1674

  • Sancino, A., & Tasselli, S. (2024). Public service management during the Covid-19 lockdown: a qualitative study. Public Management Review, 26(11), 3227-3245. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2024.2318336

  • Ertug, G., Brennecke, J., & Tasselli, S. (2023). THEORIZING ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF MULTIPLEXITY: AN INTEGRATIVE TYPOLOGY. Academy of Management Annals, 17(2), 626-654. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2021.0193

  • Tasselli, S., Neray, B., & Lomi, A. (2023). A network centrality bias: Central individuals in workplace networks have more supportive coworkers. Social Networks, 73, 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.12.002

  • Tasselli, S., & Sancino, A. (2023). Leaders' Networking Behaviours in a Time of Crisis: A Qualitative Study on the Frontline against COVID-19. Journal of Management Studies, 60(1), 120-173. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12884

  • Brands, R., Ertug, G., Fonti, F., & Tasselli, S. (2022). THEORIZING GENDER IN SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH: WHAT WE DO AND WHAT WE CAN DO DIFFERENTLY. Academy of Management Annals, 16(2), 588-620. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0370

  • Tasselli, S., & Kilduff, M. (2021). Network agency. The Academy of Management Annals, 15(1), 68-110. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2019.0037

  • Tasselli, S., Zappa, P., & Lomi, A. (2020). Bridging cultural holes in organizations: The dynamic structure of social networks and organizational vocabularies within and across subunits. Organization Science, 31(5), 1292-1312. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1352

  • Moreira, S., Klueter, T. M., & Tasselli, S. (2020). Competition, technology licensing-in, and innovation. Organization Science, 31(4), 1012-1036. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1337

  • Tasselli, S. (2019). Love and Organization Studies: Moving beyond the Perspective of Avoidance. Organization Studies, 40(7), 1073-1088. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617747924

  • Zhou, J., Wang, X. M., Bavato, D., Tasselli, S., & Wu, J. (2019). Understanding the Receiving Side of Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Review and Implications for Management Research. Journal of Management, 45(6), 2570-2595. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206319827088

  • Tasselli, S., & Caimo, A. (2019). Does It Take Three to Play Tango? Organizational Design, Triadic Structures and Boundary Spanning across Subunits. Social Networks (print), 59, 10-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.04.002

  • Compagni, A., Armeni, P., & Tasselli, S. (2019). When peers count: The effects on integrated type II diabetes care of communication within general practitioner-only subgroups in interprofessional primary care teams. Health Care Management Review, 44(1), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1097/HMR.0000000000000158

  • Tasselli, S. (2018). At the end of an era: A model and three tales of memory, perception and reality. Academy of Management Review, 44(3), 701-717. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0008

  • Tasselli, S., & Kilduff, M. (2018). When brokerage between friendship cliques endangers trust: A personality-network fit perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 61(3), 802-825. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2015.0856

  • Tasselli, S., Kilduff, M., & Landis, B. (2018). Personality change: Implications for organizational behavior. The Academy of Management Annals, 12(2), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2016.0008

  • Longo, F., Salvatore, D., Tasselli, S., & Petracca, F. (2017). Organizational correlates of continuity of care: A pendulum swing between differentiation and integration. International Journal of Care Coordination, 20(3), 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053434517733393

  • Tasselli, S. (2015). Social Networks and Inter-professional Knowledge Transfer: The Case of Healthcare Professionals. Organization Studies, 36(7), 841-872. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840614556917

Professional (5)
Academic (2)
  • Zappa, P., Tonellato, M., & Tasselli, S. (2023). Multiple identities and multiple relationships: An exploratory study of freelancers' knowledge-seeking behavior. In Understanding Workplace Relationships: An Examination of the Antecedents and Outcomes (pp. 225-260). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16640-2_8

  • Lomi, A., Tasselli, S., & Zappa, P. (2017). The network structure of organizational vocabularies. In P. Groenewegen e.a. (Ed.), Structure, Coontent and Meaning of Organizational Networks (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 53 (pp. 65-85). Emerald Group Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20170000053010

Academic (1)
  • Tasselli, S., & Borgonovi, E. (2013). Knowledge Transfer and Social Networks in Health Care. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (Vol. 2013) https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.54

Academic (1)
  • Zhang, Q., & Tasselli, S. (2021). OCCUPYING BROKERAGE POSITION THAT ENDANGERS PERFORMANCE? THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERPRETIVE AGENCY. Paper presented at 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021: Bringing the Manager Back in Management, AoM 2021, Virtual, Online. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.199

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Activities

  • Network research centre university of exeter
    Start date approval: 01 Nov 2023
    End date approval: 31 Oct 2026
    Place: EXETER
    Description: collaboration in research activities of the center
  • Journal of Management Studies (Journal)
    Stefano Tasselli (Reviewer)
    01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024

    Activity: Editorial work (Academic)

  • Academy of Management Journal (Journal)
    Stefano Tasselli (Reviewer)
    01 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023

    Activity: Editorial work (Academic)

Courses

Strategy of Innovation

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BM02MI
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Organisation of Innovation

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Code: BM03MI
  • Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Research Trajectory & Thesis

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BMMTMI1
  • Level: Master

OLD STYLE - Research Fundamentals Course

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: BMRMMI
  • Level: Master

Past courses

Mastering Networks for Innovation

  • Study year: 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019
  • Code: BMME051
  • Level: Master, Master, Master, Master

IM Research clinic

  • Study year: 2019/2020
  • Code: BM-IMRC
  • Level: Master

New Business Development

  • Study year: 2017/2018
  • Code: BMME079
  • ECTS: 6 Level: Master, Master

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