Dr S. (Stefano ) Tasselli

Stefano Tasselli is an Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He is the Academic Director of the Master in Innovation Management, which is ranked by the prominent learning platform "Innovation Management.se" as the first in the world on the subject. He is also the Director of the Erasmus Centre for Innovation (ECI). He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter Business School. He holds a PhD from the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. His educational background also includes a Diploma with full grades and honorable mention in Classics, a bachelor degree cum laude in Economics and Management and a Master of Science cum laude in Management from Bocconi University, and a Master of Philosophy with distinction in Innovation, Strategy and Organisation from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has specialized his education with an executive program at the Harvard Business School. His previous professional experience includes consulting in McKinsey and Company. His previous academic experience includes research and teaching activities at the University of Cambridge, Bocconi University and the Swiss National Found/ Universita' della Svizzera italiana. He is a member and coordinates activities for the Scientific Committee of the Italian General Embassy in the Netherlands. Among the empirical settings of particular interest for his research, the health care industry, sectors of public interest, and incubators/ accelerators for new entrepreneurial opportunities.
His research and teaching focus is on the interplay between psychological and relational antecedents of organizational functioning, including the analysis of the micro-foundations of organizational social networks; social networks, leadership and innovation; and organizational theory. He has developed classes on 'Social Networks and Leadership' in the full-time MBA. He is currently coordinating and teaching post-graduate, doctoral and executive course and modules on ‘Social Networks for Innovation’ and on the 'Organization of Innovation.’ He has taught the 'New Business Development' post-graduate module in collaboration with the Erasmus Center for Entrepreneurship and several of the most prominent Dutch companies, including ING, KLM, Philips and Eneco. He has taught a module in the successful RSM MOOC on Innovation Management in Coursera.
Dr Tasselli has been invited for more than fifty research seminars and presentations, and has received distinguished recognitions from academic conferences and research institutions. These recognitions include the Best Paper Award at the HCM division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2013, in Orlando, FL), the Outstanding PhD Award from the Judge Business School (2011), the Best Paper Award at the CORE doctoral Conference in Cambridge (2013), two consecutive Best Paper Awards at the conference of the Italian Association for Management in health care (AIES, 2013 in Trento and 2014 in Venice), the Innovative Teaching Award at RSM (2016), the EUR Education Prize (2020), the ABCD Award of the OMT division of the Academy of Management (2017, in Atlanta, GA), the nomination for the Carolyn Dexter Award of the Academy of Management (2019) and the victory of the Global Best Paper Award at the HCM division of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2019, in Boston, MA). He has received the honor of Life Membership from both Wolfson College and Girton College of the University of Cambridge. In 2017, he was selected by Wolfson College as the Alumnus of the month. In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, he has been recognized as a high performing member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). In 2019, he has been awarded with the ERIM 'Best Researcher Award' among those who have completed their PhD less than five years ago. In 2018, he has been awarded by Poets and Quants as one of the '40 World's Best Business Professors under 40.' In 2018, he was also awarded by ASFOR (Italian Society for Management Education) as the 'Best Italian Business Professor under 40.' In 2020, he was appointed by H.E. the President of Italy 'Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia' (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) for his 'human and professional qualities that contributed to the prestige of the Italian scientific community' in the world.
His research has been published, among the other journals, in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Social Networks and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal. Dr Tasselli also wrote and talked of his research in venues of interest for business practitioners, including the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, LSE Business Review, Academy of Management Insights, RSM Discovery, and Ideas for Leaders. His research activity has also been covered extensively by press and media, including interviews in Business News Radio, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa. In 2020, he has been featured in an interview by Medium Authority Magazine. He has been recently presented by RSM News as "one of the world's best business professors".
Publications (20)
Articles (14)
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S. Tasselli, P. Zappa & A. Lomi (2020). Bridging Cultural Holes in Organizations: The Dynamic Structure of Social Networks and Organizational Vocabularies Within and Across Subunits. Organization Science. doi: 10.1287/orsc.2019.1352
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S. Moreira, T. Klueter & S. Tasselli (2020). Competition, technology licensing, and innovation. Organization Science. Retrieved from In press [go to publisher's site]
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S. Tasselli & M. Kilduff (2020). Network Agency. The Academy of Management Annals.
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S. Tasselli (2019). Love and organization studies: Moving beyond the perspective of avoidance. Organization Studies, 40, 1073-1088. doi: 10.1177/0170840617747924
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S. Tasselli & A. Caimo (2019). Does It Take Three to Play Tango? Organizational Design, Triadic Structures and Boundary Spanning across Subunits. Social Networks (print), 59, 10-22. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2019.04.002 [go to publisher's site]
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J. Zhou, X. Wang, D. Bavato, S. Tasselli & J. Wu (2019). Understanding the Receiving Side of Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Review and Implications for Management Research. Journal of Management, 45 (6), 2570-2595. doi: 10.1177/0149206319827088 [go to publisher's site]
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S. Tasselli (2019). At the end of an era: A model and three tales of memory, perception and reality. Academy of Management Review, 44 (3), 701-717. doi: 10.5465/amr.2018.0008
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S. Tasselli, M. Kilduff & B. Landis (2018). Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior. The Academy of Management Annals, 12 (2), 467-493. doi: 10.5465/annals.2016.0008
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S. Tasselli & M. Kilduff (2018). When Brokerage between Friendship Cliques Endangers Trust: A Personality-Network Fit Perspective. Academy of Management Journal, 61 (3), 802-825. doi: 10.5465/amj.2015.0856
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S. Tasselli (2015). Social Networks and Inter-professional Knowledge Transfer: The Case of Healthcare Professionals. Organization Studies, 36 (7), 841-872. doi: 10.1177/0170840614556917
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S. Tasselli, M. Kilduff & J. Menges (2015). The Microfoundations of Organizational Social Networks A Review and an Agenda for Future. Journal of Management, 41 (5), 1361-1387. doi: 10.1177/0149206315573996
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S. Tasselli (2014). Social Networks of Professionals in Health Care Organizations. Medical Care Research and Review, 71 (6), 619-660. doi: 10.1177/1077558714557079
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R.S. Burt, M. Kilduff & S. Tasselli (2013). Social network analysis: Foundations and frontiers on advantage. Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 527-547. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143828
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S. Tasselli & E. Borgonovi (2013). Knowledge Transfer and Social Networks in Health Care. In Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings doi: 10.5465/AMBPP.2013.54
Book Contributions
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A. Lomi, S. Tasselli & P. Zappa (2017). The network structure of organizational vocabularies. In Peter Groenewegen e.a. (Ed.), Structure, Coontent and Meaning of Organizational Networks (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 53 (pp. 65-85). UK: Emerald Publishing [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1108/S0733-558X20170000053010
Professional Publications (5)
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S. Tasselli (2019). The Biggest Motivator At Work? Love. Forbes. [go to publisher's site]
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S. Tasselli, M. Kilduff & B. Landis (2018). Becoming More Conscientious. Harvard Business Review, March. [go to publisher's site]
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S. Tasselli (2018). Oiling The Corporate Wheels -- Are You An Effective Friendship Broker? Forbes. [go to publisher's site]
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S. Tasselli & M. Kilduff (2018). Why trust in the workplace matters and how to cultivate it. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 33 (1), 11-13.
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S. Tasselli (2018). The power of love in organisations. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge. [go to publisher's site]
PhD Tracks (4)

- Role: Co-promotor
- PhD Candidate: Qi Zhang
- Time frame: 2017 -

- Role: Daily Supervisor
- PhD Candidate: Davide Bavato
- Time frame: 2015 - 2020

- Role: Daily Supervisor
- PhD Candidate: Haozheng Shi
- Time frame: 2019 -

- Role: Daily Supervisor
- PhD Candidate: Lydia Gross
- Time frame: 2020 -
Recognitions (9)
Editorial positions (9)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
Ad Hoc Reviewer
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Organization Science
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Journal of Management Studies
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Journal of International Business Studies
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Small Group Research
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Human Relations
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Academy of Management Journal
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Journal of Management
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Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Events (38)
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