Filippo Wezel

Filippo Carlo Wezel is an organization theorist. His research focuses on the demography of organizations and industries and on the impact of categorization processes in markets.

EDUCATION

PhD in Management, University of Bologna (Italy), 2002

AWARDS

• 2008: Credit Suisse‘Best Teaching Award’, USI Lugano, Switzerland.
• 2009-2015: Senior Extramural Fellow of CentER, Tilburg University (Netherlands)

EXPERIENCE

• USI Lugano (Switzerland)
• Professor of Organization Theory from September 2009 (currently onleave)
• Associate Professor of Organization Theory (tenured), September 2006-September 2009
• Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
• Associate Professor (tenured), September 2005-September 2006
• Assistant Professor (tenure-track), April 2003-September 2005
• University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
• Post-doctoral Fellow, January 2002-March 2000
• Visiting positions
• EMLYON (France), November 2012-August 2016
• Columbia Business School (USA), May-July 2015
• Duke University (USA), January-April 2015
• Polytechnic of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), April 2014
• University of Lille I, Faculty of Economics (France), March 2011
• University of Antwerpen, Faculty of Economics (Belgium), March-May 2006
• The Wharton School, Sol Snider Entrepreneurial Center (USA), January-December 2000

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

• Senior Editor, Organization Science, November 2016-
• Editorial Board Member, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2015-to present:
• Editorial Board Member, Strategic Organization, 2012-to present
• Editorial Board Member, Organization Science, 2012-2016
• Editorial Board Member, Business Research, 2007-to present

EXPERTISE

Organization Theory, Strategic Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

ASSOCIATIONS

• 2014-to present: Member of the Strategic Management Society (SMS)
• 2002-to present: Member of the Academy of Management (AoM)
• 2002-to present: Member of the Research Group on Organizational Ecology
• 2001-to present: Member of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)

COURSES TAUGHT

PhD Level
Advanced Topics in Organization Theory

Executive Level Driving Performance, Executive MBA

RESEARCH INTEREST

Organization Theory, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management

COMMUNICATIONS & SEMINARS

Besides regularly presenting his work at international conferences, Filippo has delivered seminars at: Duke University and University of Chicago (USA); INSEAD (UAE); SKEMA and Lille (France); Carlos III University and Pompeu Fabra University (Spain); Linköping University (Sweden); Copenhagen Business School (Denmark); City University and Durham Business School (UK); University of Lille (France); University of Antwerpen (Belgium); University of Groningen and Utrecht University (NL); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic (Hong Kong); USI Lugano (Switzerland); Bocconi University (Italy) and University of Trento (Italy); Johannes Kepler University, University of Linz (Austria); DUID DIME winter conference (as keynote)

For a comprensive list of publications, see:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filippo_Wezel2

https://scholar.google.ch/citations?hl=en&user=7HjNtEEAAAAJ

PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC ARTICLES (11)

‑ Beck, Nikolaus, Swaminathan, Anand, , Wade, James B., , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2018. Industry Clusters and Organizational Prototypes: Evidence From the Franconian Brewing Industry.Journal of Management, FORTH

‑ Wezel, Filippo Carlo, Ruef, Martin. 2017. Agents with Principles: The Control of Labor in the Dutch East India Company, 1700 to 1796.American Sociological Review, 82 (5): 1009-1036 p.

‑ Cruz, Margarita, Beck, Nikolaus, , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2017. Grown Local: Community Attachment and Market Entries in the Franconian Beer Industry.Organization Studies, FORTH

‑ Betancourt, Nathan, Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2016. The Credibility of Social Climbing: When Does Inter-Firm Mobility [Not] Influence Organizational Status?.Organization Science, 27 (6): 1435-1452 p.

‑ Montauti, Martina, Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2016. Charting the Territory: Recombination as a Source of Uncertainty for Potential Entrants.Organization Science, 27 (4): 954-971 p.

‑ Karthikeyan, Soorjith Illickal, Jonsson, Stefan, , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2016. The Travails of Identity Change: Competitor Claims and Distinctiveness of British Political Parties, 1970–1992.Organization Science, 27 (1): 106-122 p.

‑ WANG, Tao, Wezel, Filippo Carlo, , FORGUES, Bernard. 2016. Protecting Market Identity: When and How Do Organizations Respond to Consumers' Devaluations.Academy of Management Journal, 59 (1): 135-162 P.

‑ TANG, Yi, Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2015. Up to standard?: Market positioning and performance of Hong Kong films, 1975–1997.Journal of Business Venturing, 30 (3): 452-466 P.

‑ GHOSH, Anindya, MARTIN, Xavier, , Pennings, Johannes M., , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2014. Ambition Is Nothing Without Focus: Compensating for Negative Transfer of Experience in R&D.Organization Science, 25 (2): 572-590 P.

‑ KUILMAN, Jeroen G., Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2013. Taking off: Category contrast and organizational mortality in the UK airline industry, 1919–64.Strategic Organization, 11 (1): 56-77 P.

‑ BOONE, Christophe, Wezel, Filippo Carlo, , VAN, WITTELOOSTUIJN Arjen. 2013. Joining the pack or going solo?: A dynamic theory of new firm positioning.Journal of Business Venturing, 28 (4): 511-527 P.

CONFERENCES (3)

‑ Forgues, Bernard, ROYER, Isabelle, , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2003. The Dynamics of Community Evolution: Intrapopulation Commensalism, Interpopulation Symbiosis, and Ecological Dominance.

‑ CATTANI, G., Forgues, Bernard, , ROYER, Isabelle, , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2002. How Established Firms Survive Gales of Creative Destruction: A Study of the Evolution of the US Aircraft Industry, 1903-1998, Strategic Management Society .

‑ CATTANI, G., Forgues, Bernard, , ROYER, Isabelle, , Wezel, Filippo Carlo. 2002. Adaptation, Selection, and Learning in the Worldwide Aircraft Industry, 1903-1998 .