Portrait of Dr Simone Santoni

Dr Simone Santoni

Senior Lecturer in Strategy

Bayes Business School , Faculty of Management

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About

Overview

My research combines network theory and sociological arguments to appreciate the organization and functioning of markets—especially, markets for cultural products and labor. Throughout my work I emphasize the interrelationship of individuals, groups and social structures and try to detail the causal mechanisms through which organizational and social facts are brought about. To date, I have three interrelated streams of research: (i) studies of social structure and novelty emergence, where I see networks not only as a ‘stimulus’ for creativity but also vital sources of legitimation for new offerings; (ii) studies of socio-cognitive foundations of markets, where I emphasize how networks and culture shape and sharpen the categories which help producers and consumers to make sense of ‘what’s going on’ in the market; (iii) studies of competition, labor mobility and occupations, where I embrace a multilevel view to investigate mobility patterns and changes in the division of labor as markets transform over time.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Bologna, Italy, January 2009 - June 2012

Employment

  • Lecturer, Bayes Business School, United Kingdom, July 2015 - present
  • Research Fellow, Bayes Business School, United Kingdom, January 2014 - June 2015
  • Enterprise Fellow, Elsevier and University of Bologna, Italy, June 2011 - December 2013

Memberships of professional organisations

  • Affiliation, International Network for Social Network Analysis, January 2014 - present
  • Affiliation, American Sociological Association, January 2014 - present
  • Affiliation, International Network of Analytical Sociologists, January 2014 - present
  • European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS), June 2012 - present
  • Academy of Management, June 2012 - present

Award

  • University of Bologna (2012). Best Doctoral Dissertation
    Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation of the University of Bologna (2012).

Languages

Italian

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Econometric & Statistical Methods
  • Mathematical & Quantitative Methods
  • Statistics
  • Organization Theory

Industries

  • arts
  • creative industries
  • music
  • r&d organizations

Geographic Areas

  • Americas - North
  • Europe

Research

Research topics

Social structure of collaboration and novelty emergence

Social valuation, categorisation and novelty emergence

Labour mobility in creative industries and entrepreneurial settings

Publications

Chapter

  1. Lanzolla, G., Santoni, S. and Tucci, C. (2021). Unlocking value from AI in financial services: strategic and organizational tradeoffs vs. media narratives. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Value Creation Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781839104381.

Journal articles (6)

  1. Jacquart, P., Santoni, S., Schudy, S., Sieweke, J. and Withers, M. (2024). Exogenous shocks: Definitions, types, and causal identification issues. The Leadership Quarterly, 35(5), pp. 101823-101823. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101823

    [publisher’s website]

  2. Santoni, S. (2024). Wenqian Wang, Fabrice Lumineau, and Oliver Schilke. Blockchains: Strategic Implications for Contracting, Trust, and Organizational Design. Administrative Science Quarterly, 69(3), pp. NP53-NP55. doi:10.1177/00018392241241063

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Asimit, A.V., Kyriakou, I., Santoni, S., Scognamiglio, S. and Zhu, R. (2022). Robust Classification via Support Vector Machines. Risks, 10(8), pp. 154-154. doi:10.3390/risks10080154

    [publisher’s website]

  4. Jacquart, P., Santoni, S., Schudy, S., Sieweke, J. and Withers, M.C. (2020). Special Issue on Harnessing Exogenous Shocks for Leadership and Management Research. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(5). doi:10.1016/S1048-20)30091
  5. Sieweke, J. and Santoni, S. (2020). Natural experiments in leadership research: An introduction, review, and guidelines. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(1), pp. 101338-101338. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101338

    [publisher’s website]

  6. Fini, R., Grimaldi, R., Santoni, S. and Sobrero, M. (2011). Complements or substitutes? The role of universities and local context in supporting the creation of academic spin-offs. Research Policy, 40(8), pp. 1113-1127. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.05.013

    [publisher’s website]

Professional activities

Editorial activity (6)

  1. Administrative Science Quarterly, Referee, 2015 - present.
  2. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Referee, 2015 - present.
  3. Organization Science, Referee, 2015 - present.
  4. Industrial and Corporate Change, Referee, 2012 - present.
  5. Journal of Management Studies, Referee, 2012 - present.
  6. Research Policy, Referee, 2011 - present.

Events/conferences (27)

  1. Brown Bag Seminar, University of Trento. (Seminar) Trento, Italy (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  2. Brown Bag Seminar, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa. (Seminar) Pisa, Italy (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014.
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  3. Brown Bag Seminar, Rotterdam School of Management. (Seminar) Rotterdam, Netherlands (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  4. Population Ecology Conference. (Conference) Catania, Italy (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Resource fluctations and novelty emergence
    Author: Negro G.
    Co-authors: Santoni S. & Sorenson O.
  5. PDW—‘The Social Structure of Creativity’, Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Anheim, CA, US (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  6. PDW—‘Big data for researchers with minimal programming back- ground’, Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Anheim, CA, US (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  7. Creative Industry Conference. (Conference) Edinburgh, UK (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  8. Analytical Sociology Conference. (Conference) Utrecht, Netherlands (2016). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  9. Brown Bag Seminar, Grenoble Ecole de Management. (Seminar) Grenoble, France (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Be my Virgil! Community outreach, nexus work, and sociological ambivalence among industrial scientists
    Author: Santoni S.
  10. XXXV Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). (Conference) Brighton, UK (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Be my Virgil! Community outreach, nexus work, and sociological ambivalence among industrial scientists
    Author: Santoni S.
  11. XXXV Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Brighton, UK. (Conference) Brighton, UK (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and allocation of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  12. The Medici Summer School. (Conference) Bologna (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Indigenous scouting and standing out: Evidence from the market for DJs
    Author: Ferriani S
    Co-authors: Santoni S. & Stark D.
  13. PDW—‘Mechanisms of mobility’, Academy of Managment Meeting. (Conference) Vancouver, Canada (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Organisation-level categorisation and employee social identity: Implications for labour mobility
    Author: Santoni S.
  14. PDW—‘Advanced social network analysis,’ Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Vancouver, Canada (2015). Invited speaker.
    Paper: The king is dead, long live the king! Superstar extinction and alloca- tion of symbolic resources in the music industry 1959-2014
    Author: Cattani G.
    Co-authors: Ferriani S. & Santoni S.
  15. Cass Junior Faculty Workshop. (Conference) London, UK (2014). Chair and Organising Committee
  16. Brown Bag Seminar, UCL. (Seminar) London, UK (2014). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Be my Virgil! Community outreach, nexus work, and sociological ambivalence among industrial scientists
    Author: Santoni S.
  17. Brown Bag Seminar, Aalto School of Business. (Seminar) Helsinki, Finland (2014). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Be my Virgil! Community outreach, nexus work, and sociological ambivalence among industrial scientists
    Author: Santoni S.
  18. TIM Junior Faculty Workshop, Academy of Managemen Meeting. (Conference) Philadelphia, US (2014). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Be my Virgil! Community outreach, nexus work, and sociological ambivalence among industrial scientists.
    Author: Santoni S.
  19. Brown bag seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago. (Seminar) Chicago, US (2013). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Membership change and functional diversity churn in new venture teams: How do social categories and status matter?
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Fini R., Grimaldi R. & Wright M.
  20. Brown Bag Seminar, Purdue University. (Seminar) Lafayette, US (2013). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Membership change and functional diversity churn in new venture teams: How do social categories and status matter?’
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Fini R., Grimaldi R. & Wright M.
  21. Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Orlando, US (2013). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Membership change and functional diversity churn in new venture teams: How do social categories and status matter?
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Fini R., Grimaldi R. & Wright M.
  22. PDW— ‘Assessing Academic Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis of Europe vs. US on Entrepreneurship,’ (Conference) Boston (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Membership change and functional diversity churn in new venture teams: How do social categories and status matter?’
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Fini R., Grimaldi R. & Wright M.
  23. DRUID Conference. (Conference) Copenaghen, Denmark (2012). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Membership change and functional diversity churn in new venture teams: How do social categories and status matter?’
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Fini R., Grimaldi R. & Wright M.#
  24. EGOS Colloquium. (Conference) Goteborg, Sweden (2011). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Organisation-level categorisation and employee social identity: Implications for labour mobility
    Author: Santoni S.
  25. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. (Conference) Lausanne, Switzerland (2010). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Complements or substitutes? An empirical analysis of the role of universities and local context in supporting the creation of academic start-ups
    Author: Fini R.
    Co-authors: Grimaldi R., Santoni S. & Sobrero M.
  26. Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Chicago, US (2009). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Novelty conduits and social ties form: To bond or to bridge?
    Author: Santoni S.
    Co-authors: Ferri P. & Lusiani M.
  27. Academy of Management Meeting. (Conference) Chicago, US (2009). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Complements or substitutes? An empirical analysis of the role of universities and local context in supporting the creation of academic start-Ups,
    Author: Fini R.
    Co-authors: Grimaldi R., Santoni S. & Sobrero M.