Simona Giorgi Boston College Carroll School of Management Management & Organization Department 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Email: simona.giorgi@bc.edu Cell: (+1) 312-502-5977 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Management and Organization, Boston College All-Star teacher, Faculty fellowship (an award for demonstrated competence and value of the research as a contribution to knowledge, which amounts to a release from normal duties for a semester), 2012 Maternity leave, a.a. 2012 2013 2010 present EDUCATION Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Management and Organizations, sociology track Dissertation Committee: Ed Zajac (chair), Klaus Weber, Brayden King, and Tina Dacin M.S., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Management and Organizations, sociology track Qualifying paper: Marks of Distinction: Framing and Audience Appreciation in the Context of Investment Advice B.A., Università Bocconi Major: Business Administration, Minor: Industrial Economics Summa cum laude, Best Graduating Student award Undergraduate thesis: Replicanti di successo. Il caso Autogrill (published in Economia & Management, 2002, vol.4) Exchange student, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Spring 2000 2010 2006 2001 RESEARCH FOCUS My work sits at the intersection of organization theory and cultural sociology and examines the role of culture defined as a toolkit of stories, frames, categories, rituals, and practices in organizations and individuals ability to achieve their goals. Through predominantly qualitative methods, and a mix of empirical and theoretical work, I show that culture can be a double edge sword that enables, but at the same time constrains strategies of action. I apply a cultural lens to understanding phenomena of institutional change, influence, stratification, and mobilization in a 11/8/ Giorgi, CV updated September 1
variety of empirical contexts, including environmental non-profits, financial analysts, food movements, the Catholic Church, and the automobile industry. PUBLICATIONS Lockwood, C., Giorgi, S., and M.A. Glynn. How to do things with words: resonance and other mechanisms bridging language and action. Proposal accepted (August ), Journal of Management Giorgi, S., J. Bartunek, and B. King. A Saul Alinsky Primer for the 21st Century: How Cultural Brokerage Can Foster Mobilization to Accomplish Institutional Change. In press, Research in Organizational Behavior Giorgi, S. The Mind and Heart of Resonance: The Role of Cognition and Emotions in Frame Effectiveness. Journal of Management Studies, 54, 5, 711-738 Giorgi, S.. How audiences come to embrace and support new products, ideas or politicians. LSE Business Review Giorgi, S. and S. Palmisano. Sober Intoxication: Institutional Contradictions and Identity Work in the Everyday Life of Four Religious Communities in Italy. Organization Studies, 38, 6, 795-819 Giorgi, S. and K. Weber. Marks of Distinction: Framing and Audience Appreciation in the Context of Investment Advice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60, 2, 333-367 Featured in Tales from the field, Collective Meaning Microcommunity, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Measuring Culture in the Context of Investment Advice, http://cmcommunity.wix.com/collective-meaning Giorgi, S. 2016. How investment analysts frame information matters to their careers. LSE Business Review. Main feature article http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2016/03/03/how-investmentanalysts-frame-information-matters-to-their-careers/ Giorgi, S., C. Lockwood, and M.A. Glynn. The Many Faces of Culture: Making Sense of 30 Years of Research on Culture in Organization Studies. Academy of Management Annals, 9, 1, 1-54 Most read article for the year (3,216 downloads; 32% more than the second most downloaded article) Recognized as one of the Top Topics (http://annals.aom.org/) Giorgi, S. and M.A. Glynn. The Aesthetics of Data: Qualitative Analysis of Visual and Other Non-Textual Forms of Data. In K.D. Elsbach and R.M. Kramer (eds.), Doing Innovative Qualitative Research in Organizations: Paths to Cool Ideas and Interesting Papers, Routledge, Taylor, and Francis Group, Organization and Management Series, 206-214 Giorgi, S., M.E. Guider, and J. Bartunek. Productive Resistance: A Study of Change, Emotions, and Identity in the Context of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Women Religious, 2008-2012. In Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury, and Paul Tracey (eds.), 2018 (expected) 2018 (expected) 2014 Giorgi, CV updated September 2
Religion and Organization Theory, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 41, 259-300 Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Featured in Dawn Cherie Araujo, Sisters met Vatican visitation with productive resistance, National Catholic Reporter, June 6-19, 2014, and Dawn Cherie Araujo, An academic look at the Apostolic Visitation, Global Sisters Report, May 19, 2014 Glynn, M.A. and S. Giorgi. Taking the Cultural Turn: Reading Cultural Sociology. Academy of Management Review, 28, 466-470 Glynn, M.A., S. Giorgi, and C. Lockwood. Organization Culture. Oxford Bibliographies in Management (Editor: Ricky Griffin). New York: Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846740-0059, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846740/obo- 9780199846740-0059.xml Glynn, M.A., S. Giorgi, and A. Tunarosa. Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization. Encyclopedia of Management Theory, SAGE Reference project, 440-444 Rao, H. and S. Giorgi. Code Breaking: How Entrepreneurs Exploit Cultural Logics to Generate Institutional Change. Research in Organizational Behavior, 27, 279-314 2013 2012 2012 2006 PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Giorgi, S., M. Maoret, and E. Zajac.. The cultural contingency of law: evidence from the introduction and implementation of the automobile safety law, 1965-1980. Minor revisions (August 25, ), Organization Science. Giorgi, S.. What s in a frame? An in-depth exploration of the role of framing in fostering agreement in the context of two environmental non-profits. Under revision, Organization Science. Winner of The Davis Conference of Qualitative Research Best Paper and Presentation Award, Giorgi, S. and R. Nielsen,. Situational Business Ethics Framing. Under revision for third round review, Journal of Business Ethics. Best Business Ethics Paper, Finalist, Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management Division WORKING PAPERS Lockwood, C., S. Giorgi, and Glynn, M.A. A Place to Stay: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Hotel Industry, 1790 (in preparation for submission to Strategic Management Journal) McDonnell, M. and S. Giorgi, Who's Asking? The Impact of Activists' Identity on Audience Responses in the context of shareholder resolutions, 1996-2012 (data collection in progress) Giorgi, CV updated September 3
Giorgi, S. and B. Do, On the Road to a Robust Identity: The Roles of Practice, Institutional Bricolage, and Emotionality (data collection in progress) HONORS AND AWARDS Editorial Review Board Academy of Management Review; invited in March by Incoming Editor Jay B. Barney Best Business Ethics Paper Award Finalist, Academy of Management, SIM Division,, for the paper entitled Mine and Yours: Ethics Discourse Framing and Situational Appropriateness, with Richard Nielsen Best Paper and Presentation Award The Davis Conference of Qualitative Research. Award for What s in a frame? An in-depth exploration of the role of framing in fostering agreement in the context of two environmental non-profits (Chair: Steve Barley, Stanford University) Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence Emerald Group Publishing. Award for Productive Resistance: A Study of Change, Emotions, and Identity in the Context of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Women Religious, 2008-2012 All-Star Teacher Carroll School of Management, Boston College Faculty Fellowship Carroll School of Management, Boston College Art Stinchcombe Dissertation Prize Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern (SION), Northwestern University, honorable mention/finalist for dissertation work Sustainability Academy Best Paper Award Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (Chair: Jim Walsh, University of Michigan) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grant Targeted Watershed Project, grant for a study on stakeholders management on environmental innovation in Chicago ($5,000) Dispute Resolution Research Center Grant Northwestern University. Grant for a study on cooperation among environmental nonprofit organizations in Chicago ($5,000) 2012 2010 2009 2009 2008 Giorgi, CV updated September 4
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching interests include: organizational behavior, organizational theory, leadership, power and politics, management of the natural environment, sustainability, and qualitative methods Organizational Behavior Boston College, undergraduate level core course Around 120 students enrolled per semester Average instructor s evaluation (over 14 sections, 2011-): 4.8/5.0 Official course evaluations available upon request Research in the Community Boston College, Ph.D. level seminar Annual introduction to faculty research Culture 101 Boston College, summer seminar series Session on culture Advanced Topics: Social Cognition Boston College, Ph.D. level seminar Guest lecture for the session on Cultural Framing and Change 2011 - present 2010 - present 2011 PRESENTATIONS If the Walls Could Talk: At the Interface of Design, Materiality and Culture, co-chair, All Academy Theme Program, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, August 6, Negotiating Status and Stigma: A Rhetorical Approach, invited panelist, Showcase Symposium, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, August 7, Mine and Yours: Ethics Discourse Framing and Situational Appropriateness, paper presentation, Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA, August 7, Contestation in Implementation: Organizational responses to the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, 1966-1980, paper presentation, Conference on Visuality, Materiality and Multimodality, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 22-23, 2016 How to Measure Meaning at the Collective Level, Professional Development Workshop for MOC, OMT, RM divisions, expert panelist, Academy of Management, Vancouver, Canada, Saturday, August 8, Silence is Golden: Changing Valuation Practices in the Gold Space, EGOS, Sub-theme 62, Athens, Greece, July What s in a Frame? Cultural Barriers to Collaboration between two Environmental Non-Profits, The Davis Conference of Qualitative Research, invited talk, March 20-22, Davis, CA Giorgi, CV updated September 5
Measuring culture in the context of investment advice, presentation for the Professional Development Workshop, How to Measure Meaning at the Collective Level Measuring Collective Meaning, expert panelist, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, Saturday, August 2, 2014 How to Do Things with Words: Connecting Words to Actions in Organizations, All-Academy Theme, organizer, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, Sunday, August 3, 2014 What s in a Frame? Cultural Barriers to Collaboration between two Environmental Non-Profits, invited talk at Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business, Department of Business Administration, Hanover, NH, May 1-2, 2014 What s in a Frame? Cultural Barriers to Collaboration between two Environmental Non-Profits, Center for Cultural Sociology Anniversary Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 25-27, 2014 Culture and Capitalism: Reconsidering capitalism from a cultural perspective All-Academy Theme Symposium, Session Chair and Co-Organizer, Academy of Management, Orlando, FL, August 11, 2013 Joining forces for environmental change: an exploration of values and valuing, Academy of Management, Boston, MA, August 7, 2012 Does culture really matter? Reexamining the role of culture in organization studies, Session Co-Chair and Organizer, Academy of Management, Boston, MA, August 7, 2012 Ethnicity, Culture, and Spirituality: Implications for Entrepreneurship, Session Chair and Facilitator, Academy of Management, Boston, MA, August 6, 2012 Values, Ideology and the Social Construction of Environmental Action, Session Chair and Discussant, Academy of Management, San Antonio, Texas, August, 12-16, 2011 Worthy Rhetorics: Analyst Discourse and the Valuation of Biotech Stocks, Showcase symposium, Markets and symbols: capturing value through meaning making, Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, August 6-10, 2010 Culture in Action: Cultural Competence and Influence in Institutional Environments, Arthur Stinchcombe Dissertation Award, SION, Northwestern University, May 7, 2010 From the balconies to the barricades: cultural foundations of joint action mobilization for ecosystem restoration in Chicago, Culture and Society workshop, Sociology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, October 15, 2009 Trading in Good and Evil? Challenges and Opportunities of Market Solutions to Environmental Problems, All-Academy Symposium Theme Session on Markets and the Environment, Organizer and Co-Chair, Academy of Management, Chicago, August 9, 2009 The Logics of Politics: The U.S. automobile industry's struggle with safety regulation, paper presentation, Academy of Management, Chicago, August 10, 2009 Perspectives on Governance, Session Chair, Academy of Management, Chicago, August 10, 2009 Giorgi, CV updated September 6
Wild by Design? Environmental Entrepreneurship, Conceptions of Value, and Allies Mobilization in a Chicago Community of Non-Profit Organizations, The University of Alberta Second International Conference on Institutions, Innovation and Space, June 2009 Nature Talks: Language, Values, and Identities in Cooperation, DePaul University, Environmental Science Program, Institute for Nature and Culture, Chicago, May 22, 2009 Worthy Rhetorics: Analyst Discourse and the Valuation of Biotech Stocks, Academy of Management, Market Devices symposium, Anaheim, CA, August 11, 2008 Marks of Distinction: Style as a Source of Status among Security Analysts, 1986-2005, Informs, Organization Science workshop, Seattle, November 3, 2007 Managing Political Life: How the U.S. Automobile Industry Re-Constructed Product Safety, Strategic Management Society, San Diego, October 17, 2007 Marks of Distinction: Style as a Source of Status among Security Analysts, 1986-2005, American Sociological Association, Section in Economic Sociology. New York, August 14, 2007 Code Breaking: How Entrepreneurs Exploit Institutional Logics to Generate Institutional Change, Academy of Management, Symposium on Code Makers and Code Breakers: Food as a Field of Cultural Contestation, Philadelphia, August 2007 Constructing Politics: Organizations as Systems of Political and Cultural Influence, OMT Dissertation Proposal Workshop, Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 2007 Marks of Distinction: Style as a Source of Status among Security Analysts, Culture and Society workshop, Sociology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, January 11, 2007 Marks of Distinction: Style as a Source of Status among Security Analysts, 1986-2005, Academy of Management, Atlanta, August 15, 2006 Cultural Repertoires of Markets and Markets for Cultural Repertoires, Midwestern Conference for Culture, Language, and Cognition, Northwestern University, Evanston, May 14, 2005 Breaking the Code: How Actors Utilize Logics to Generate Institutional Change, Culture and Society workshop, Sociology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, April 15, 2005 WORK EXPERIENCE Harvard Business School Research associate and case writer Kodak, with Giovanni Gavetti and Rebecca Henderson, 2003-2004, Harvard Business School o Kodak and the Digital Revolution, N9-705-448 (Harvard Business School Publishing s Most Popular ) o Kodak (A), N9-703-503 (Harvard Business School Publishing s Most Popular ) 2002 2004 Giorgi, CV updated September 7
o Kodak (B), N9-704-456 Dell, with Jan Rivkin, 2004, Harvard Business School o Matching Dell (B), N9-704-476 o Matching Dell: Dell Computer Corporation, 1999-2003, N9-704-452 o Matching Dell: The Personal Computer Industry, 1999-2003, N9-704-451 o Matching Dell: IBM's Personal Computer Division, 1999-2003, N9-704- 453 o Matching Dell: Compaq and HP, 1999-2003, N9-704-454 o Matching Dell: Gateway, 1999-2003, N9-704-455 Dell, with Jan Rivkin, M.E. Porter, and F. Nabavi, 2004, Harvard Business School o Matching Dell: The Personal Computer Industry in 1998, N9-704-445 o Matching Dell: Dell Computer Corporation in 1998, N9-704-446 o Matching Dell: HP's Personal Computer Division in 1998, N9-704-449 o Matching Dell: Gateway in 1998, N9-704-450 Bocconi University, Milan Research fellow Cappetta, R. e S. Giorgi, 2003, Replicanti di successo. Il caso Autogrill, Economia & Management, n. 4 (article, in Italian) Qubica, 2002. Trovare l America a Bologna, Università Bocconi (case, in Italian) Bain Consulting, Milan Business analyst 2001-2002 2000 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW Editorial Review Board member REVIEWING Ad hoc reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Strategic Management Journal, Sociological Forum, and Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review. Yearly reviewer for Academy of Management meetings. COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS OMT Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award Committee, invited member PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, EGOS, and Boston Field Research Community -2020 2006 present 2016 2005 present Giorgi, CV updated September 8
UNIVERSITY SERVICE DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP Christi Lockwood, A Place to Stay: Cultural Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Hotel Industry, 1790 THIRD-YEAR QUALIFYING PAPER COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS Ray Ward, in progress Doug Lepisto, When S#%* Hits the Fan: How Firefighters Evaluate and Translate Trustworthiness Across Domains Andrea Tunarosa, Cultural renewal through crisis: collective sensemaking at the San Jose mine, Chile Christi Lockwood, Indigenous Luxury : High-End Hotels as Cultural Bricoleurs HONOR THESIS SUPERVISION Honors Thesis chair (Madison Montgomery, International Studies), Understanding the employment contract in Japan: a cultural perspective INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Ju Young Lee (); Christi Lockwood (2014); Callen Anthony (2014); Felipe Massa (2011) CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER Management & Organization Department FACULTY RECRUITING COMMITTEE MEMBER Management & Organization Department 2016 2011-2014 2011-2013 2014 2013 - CITIZENSHIP ITALIAN CITIZEN, U.S. GREEN CARD HOLDER (SINCE 2011) Giorgi, CV updated September 9
REFERENCES Mary Ann Glynn Joseph F Cotter Professor of Management & Organization Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) Academy of Management President Elect Research Director, Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 President-Elect, Academy of Management email: maryann.glynn@bc.edu Telephone: 617-552-0203 Klaus Weber Associate Professor of Management & Organizations Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Email: klausweber@kellogg.northwestern.edu Telephone: 847-491-2201 Brayden King Max McGraw Chair in Management and the Environment Professor of Management & Organizations Chair of Management & Organizations department Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Email: b-king@kellogg.northwestern.edu Telephone: 847-467-6950 Giorgi, CV updated September 10