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.