Giuseppe Soda
Leadership, Organization and Human Resources
Biography
Giuseppe Soda is a Full Professor at the Department of Organization Theory & Social Network Analysis at Università Bocconi in Milan.
He has been leading the SDA Bocconi School of Management as Dean since 2016.
He is also the chairman of the SDA Bocconi Asia Center in Mumbai.
He has conducted his career at Università Bocconi with many institutional responsibilities, including the direction of the Organization and Human Resources Management Department, the Claudio Dematté Research Division at SDA Bocconi and the Department of Management and Technology at Università Bocconi.
He has managed various executive education programs and research projects including: Ferrero MIM, Amplifon LP, Angelini Group Talent Program, Luxottica SNA, Chiesi SNA.
His research activity has examined the role of organizational structures, their alignment with the strategy and the network dynamics of intra and inter-organizational collaboration in various industries (tv, construction, energy, banks).
He is considered one of the topmost experts on Network Dynamics and he is among the scholars who have advanced organizational design methodologies by extending network analysis methods.
His scientific research is renowned internationally and has been published in leading academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Academy of Management Annals, the Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, the Journal of World Business, Strategy Science.
He has also published several articles in Italian Management and Organization journals and various books. He manages the book collections Leading Management (EGEA - SDA Bocconi) and has directed the book series “Management” (Corriere della Sera - Egea).
He obtained a Ph.D. in Business and Management from Università Bocconi and pursued his post-doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is married with two children.
Teaching domains
Change Management
Organizational and Social Network
Organizational Design
Latest publications
Stand up or stand by: The effects of network positions on whistle-blowing
Academy of Management Annual Meeting: Broadening Our Sight - August 7-11,, 2020, Vancouver, Canada
Globally networked: Intraorganizational boundary spanning in the global organization
Journal Of World Business, 2019, vol.54, no. 3, pp.169-180
Instrumental and affective ties within the laboratory: The impact of informal cliques on innovative productivity
Strategic Management Journal, 2019, vol.40, no. 10, pp.1593-1609
Network Structure, Collaborative Context, and Individual Creativity
Journal Of Management, 2019, vol.45, no. 4, pp.1739-1765
Private Capital Marketplaces and IPOs in The Oxford Handbook of IPOs
Douglas Cumming (Eds),Oxford University Press, pp.696-719, 2019
Fit for the Task: Complementarity, Asymmetry, and Partner Selection in Alliances
Organization Science, 2018, vol.29, no. 5, pp.837-854
Grants & Honors
Research Excellence Award (2020) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2020
Innovation Award for executive programs (2016) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2016
Research Excellence Award (2013) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2013
Best Paper Award - Economia & Management (2012) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2012
Research Excellence Award (2012) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2012
Research Excellence Award (2011) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2011
Best Paper Award (2010) - Conference of Italian Scholars of Organization Theory
, 2010
Research Excellence Award (2009) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2009
Research Excellence Award (2008) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2008
Teaching Award (2007) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2007
Best Academic Paper Award (2006) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2006
Teaching Award (2006) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2006
Best Paper Award (2005) - Conference of Italian Scholars of Organization Theory
, 2005
MBA Teacher of the Year Award (2005) - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2005
MSc Teacher of the Year (2004) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2004
Best Paper Award (2002) - Conference of Italian Scholars of Organization Theory
, 2002
Case Study of the Year Award (2001), “Barilla: the story behind an organizational transformation” - SDA Bocconi School of Management
, 2001
Research Excellence Award (2001) - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
, 2001
