Giovanni Formilan Curriculum Vitae

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick, Social Sciences B0.08 Library Road, Coventry CV4 7AL (UK) [email protected]

EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D. in General Management. University of Bologna. 2011 M.S. in Decision-making, Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility. University of Trento. 2009 B.S. in . University of Trento.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS 2018–present Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. 2017–2018 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. University of Bologna, Department of Management. 2019 Visiting Scholar. Department of Management, Freie Universität Berlin. 2017, 2018 Visiting Scholar. , Center on Organizational Innovation (COI). 2014–2015 Visiting PhD Candidate. Columbia University, Department of .

RESEARCH INTERESTS Organization theory, strategy, , creative and cultural industries. Multivariate Regression, Social Sequence Analysis, Analysis, Image Processing and Analysis.

PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming Formilan G. (2019). Organizational style, style typologies, and stylistic coherence in the ranking distribution of creative producers. Advances in Strategic Management. In Press Formilan G., Ferriani S., and Cattani G. (2019). A methodological essay on the application of social sequence analysis to the study of creative trajectories. In Dörfler, V., Stierand, M. (eds.). Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity, Edward Elgar Publishing.

1 2018 Formilan G. and Boari C. (2018). “Social and cognitive dimensions of categorization in the evaluation of category-spanning creative products”. In Canonico P., Consiglio S., Mangia G., Martinez M., Mercurio R., Moschera L. (eds.). Organizing in the shadow of power: voices from the Italian community of organization studies. 555-606. Studi MOA, Roma: Minerva Bancaria. 2016 Formilan G. (2016). Essays on identity social construction, multidimensionality, and its effect on creative products’ performance in Electronic Dance Music. Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Ph.D. Thesis in General Management, XXVIII cycle, Dissertation Committee: Cristina Boari, Simone Ferriani, David Stark.

WORKING PAPERS Formilan G. (2019). Stylistic Erraticism in early-career creative production. Market reception and the immunity of newness. University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Formilan G. and Stark D. (2019). Moments of Identity. Artists and their Aliases in Electronic Music. University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Under review at Organization Studies. Formilan G. and Stark D. (2019). Testing the Creative Identity. Personas as Probes in Underground Electronic Music. University of Warwick, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Under review at British Journal of Sociology. Formilan G. and Boari C. (2019). The reluctant preference. Categorical recombination and the effect of community endorsement. University of Bologna, Department of Management. Under review at Industrial and Corporate Change.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 2019 Formilan G. “Stylistic erraticism in early-career creative production. Market reception and the immunity of newness”. Accepted at 35th Annual Meeting of the European Group of Organizational Studies, July 4-6, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland UK. 2018 Formilan G. and Stark D. “Moments of Identity. Artists and their Aliases in Electronic Music”, Undergraduate Seminar at Sociology, Columbia University, October 2018. 2018 Formilan G. and Stark D. “Moments of Identity. Artists and their Aliases in Electronic Music”, 34th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Organizational Studies, July 5-7, 2018, Tallinn, Estonia. 2018 Formilan G. and Stark D. “Moments of Identity. Artists and their Aliases in Electronic Music”, July 26, 2018 – Department of Management, Freie Universität Berlin, Seminars of the Department of Management.

2 2017 Formilan G. and Stark D. “The Organization of Self in the Age of Projected Identity”, CODES Seminar, Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University, New York. 2016 Formilan G. and Boari C. “Do you note me? The impact of multidimensional identity on Electronic Dance Music performance”, 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Group for Organizational Studies, July 7-9, 2016 – Naples, Italy.

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS 2017-2019 Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams (Blindspot). ERC Grant, PI: David Stark. Member of the research team. 2017-2018 Recognize the Novelty (RINO). ALMA Idea Grant, PI: Simone Ferriani. Member of the research team and co-applicant. 2016-2017 Disentangling network and entrepreneurial roles in clusters: preparing for a joint research project (NET-WINE). FIBRA and UNIBO grant. PI: Cristina Boari. Member of the research team. 2014 Marco Polo Program. UNIBO research grant. Applicant; fully funded.

PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS 2019 Crete workshop on innovation and creativity. Crete, July 25-26, 2019. Co-sponsored by University of Bologna, University of Warwick, and ESADE Business School. 2019 Creative Industries Conference. Paris, June 21-22, 2019. Business Incubator Station F, co-hosted by HEC Paris, INSEAD, IESEG School of Management, and ESSEC Business School. 2019 7th Austrian Early Scholars Workshop in Management. Vienna, May 6-7, 2019. WU – Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. 2018 Put to the Test. Critical Evaluations of Testing. International Workshop. December 10-11, 2018. Warwick in London, UK. 2018 Medici Summer School in Management Studies. Organizations as Vehicles and Settings for Social Change. Bologna, June 11-15, 2018. 2018 Performances of Value. International Workshop. 5-6 May 2018. Warwick in London, UK. 2018 Creativity and Fields. 2nd International Conference of the Research Training Group (GRK 1672) “Innovation Society Today” and 2nd Annual Conference of the Research Unit (FOR 2161) “Organized Creativity“. Technische Universität Berlin, June 28-29, 2018. 2016 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. Courses of Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis (instr. Prof. Vera Tröger) and Mathematics (part 3, instr. Dan Brown).

3 2014 New Directions in Economic Sociology. PhD course (instr. Prof. David Stark), Columbia University, New York. 2014-2015 CODES Seminars. Center on Organizational Innovation, Columbia University, New York.

TEACHING, T.A. AND MENTORING Entrepreneurship – The Start Up Game Simulation (co-instructor). Bologna Business School & Cass Business School. 2018-2019 Entrepreneurship (co-instructor). CLAMDA Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016–2018. Business Venturing (co-instructor). CLAMDA International Management Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016–2018. Business Model definition (instructor). University of Bologna, Department of Chemistry, PhD Program. 2017 Knowledge Management in Art Organizations (co-instructor). GIOCA Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016–2019. Managing Networks in the Arts (co-instructor). GIOCA Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016–2018.

Corporate Strategy (T.A.). CLAMEP Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016/2017. Sustainable Innovation Laboratory (T.A.). CLAMDA International Management Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016/2017. Business Plan Laboratory (T.A.). CLAMDA Master’s Program, University of Bologna. 2016–2018. Accounting and Cost Analysis (trainer). Industrial Engineering Undergraduate, University of Bologna. 2016/2017.

Business Model and Value Creation in the digital era: case studies from the music industry (2015). Master’s Thesis Supervision. Candidate: Emilio Tropea, Supervisor: Simone Ferriani.

LANGUAGES Italian (native); English (fluent); German (fair); French (basic).

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