Giuseppe Soda

Full Professor
Knowledge groupLeadership, Human Resources and Digital Technologies
Research domainsOrganization Design
Teaching domainsOrganizational Design, Change Management, Organizational Social Network
Download V-CardDownload CV
soda.jpg

Biography

Giuseppe “beppe” Soda is a Full Professor of Organization Theory & Social Network Analysis at Università Bocconi in Milan and at SDA Bocconi, where he served as Dean from 2016 to 2022. His career at Università Bocconi includes numerous institutional responsibilities, such as directing the Organization and Personnel Area and the Claudio Dematté Research Division at SDA Bocconi, leading the Department of Management & Technology at Università Bocconi, and serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SDA Bocconi Asia Center based in Mumbai, India. Prof. Soda's intensive research activity explores the interaction between organizational architectures and social networks. His scientific contributions have significantly advanced our understanding of the origins and evolution of organizational networks and have been published in the most prestigious international academic journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal. He has served on and is currently on the editorial boards of international academic journals; he is the editor of the Leading Management book series (EGEA - SDA Bocconi) and has edited the "Management" series published by Corriere della Sera and Egea. Internationally, after six years as a member of the Board of the EFMD-EQUIS accreditation system, he was recently appointed Associate Director at the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). He is also an elected member of the Board of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC®), the international association of management schools that owns the GMAT test. Prof. Soda holds a PhD in Business Administration from Università Bocconi, completed a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), and has been a Visiting Professor at IE Business School (Madrid, SP) and London Business School.

Recent Publications

Download
  • 2025
    In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope
    SODA, G., A. IORIO, L. RIZZO, "In the network of the conclave: Social connections and the making of a pope", Social Networks, 2025, vol. 83, pp. 215-232
  • 2025
    Prismatic Trust: How Structural and Behavioral Signals in Networks Explain Trust Accumulation
    SODA, G., A. ZAHEER, M. PARK, B. MCEVILY, M. SUBRAMANI, "Prismatic Trust: How Structural and Behavioral Signals in Networks Explain Trust Accumulation", Management Science, 2025, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 3966-3982
  • 2025
    The Ties That Nurture: Expressive Simmelian Ties, Instrumental Brokerage, and Individual Performance
    TORTORIELLO, M., G. SODA, M. GOMEZ-SOLORZANO, "The Ties That Nurture: Expressive Simmelian Ties, Instrumental Brokerage, and Individual Performance", Academy of Management Journal, 2025
  • 2024
    The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks
    GOMEZ-SOLORZANO, M., G. SODA, M. FURLOTTI, "The organization of R&D work and knowledge search in intrafirm networks", Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 694-711
  • 2022
    Intra-Organizational Network Dynamics: Past Progress, Current Challenges, and New Frontiers
    JACOBSEN, D. H., D. STEA, G. SODA, "Intra-Organizational Network Dynamics: Past Progress, Current Challenges, and New Frontiers", Academy of Management Annals, 2022, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 853-897
  • 2022
    Keep or Drop? The Origin and Evolution of Knowledge Relationships in Organizations
    STEA, D., T. PEDERSEN, G. SODA, "Keep or Drop? The Origin and Evolution of Knowledge Relationships in Organizations", British Journal of Management, 2022, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 1517-1534

Grants & Honors

  • Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2024

  • Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2022

  • Research Excellence Award (2020), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2020

  • Premio per l’Innovazione nei programmi Executive (2016), SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2016

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2013), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2013

  • Premio Best Paper - Economia & Management (2012), SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2012

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2012), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2012

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2011), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2011

  • Premio Best Paper (2010) - Conferenza dei Docenti di Organizzazione Italiani, 2010

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2009), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2009

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2008), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2008

  • Premio Eccellenza nella didattica (2007), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2007

  • Premio Best Academic Paper (2006), SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2006

  • Premio Eccellenza nella didattica (2006), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2006

  • Premio docente dell’anno Master in Business Administration-MBA (2005), SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2005

  • Premio Best Paper (2005) - Conferenza dei Docenti di Organizzazione Italiani, 2005

  • Premio docente dell’anno programmi Master (2004), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2004

  • Premio Best Paper (2002) - Conferenza dei Docenti di Organizzazione Italiani, 2002

  • Premio Eccellenza nella Ricerca (2001), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2001

  • Premio Caso dell’anno (2001), “Barilla: the story behind an organizational transformation”, SDA Bocconi School of Management, 2001