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Gino Cattani

  • Professor of Management and Organizations
  • George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow

Joined Stern 2004

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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40 West Fourth Street, 714

New York, NY 10012

About Gino Cattani

Gino Cattani joined New York University Stern School as an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization in September 2004. Professor Cattani's research is primarily focused on technological innovation and competition, creativity, social networks, and social evaluation.

Professor Cattani completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics in Pisa where he received a BA in Accountancy & Business in 1991. After qualifying as an accountant in 1992, and spending the 1995-1996 academic year as a Visiting Fellow Student at the MIT-Sloan School of Management in Boston, he received a Dottorato di Ricerca in Business Administration from the Faculty of Economics in Pisa in 1997.

Professor Cattani received an M.A. in Management Science and Applied Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Management from Wharton in August 2004.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Technological Innovation and Competition
  • Creativity
  • Social Networks
  • Social Evaluation
  • Management
    • Professional Development
    • Technology & Innovation

  • Ph.D., Strategy and Organization Theory, 2004

    University of Pennsylvania

  • M.A., Management Science & Applied Economics, 2001

    University of Pennsylvania

  • Doctoral Degree, Business Administration, 1997

    University of Pisa, Italy - Faculty of Economics

  • B.A., Accountancy and Business, 1991

    University of Pisa, Italy - Faculty of Economics

  • Strategy Science Best Paper Award (2025)

  • EBS University, Best Paper Award on Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Transformation, 2nd Prize (2022)

  • EBS University, Best Paper Award on Innovation, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Transformation, 2nd Prize (2021)

  • NSF Grant (2017)

  • TIM Outstanding Reviewer Award (2015)

  • TIM Outstanding Reviewer Award (2014)

  • OMT Outstanding Reviewer Award (2013)

  • Best article either in Research Policy or Industrial and Corporate Change, Richard R. Nelson Award Prize (2012)

  • R. J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award (2004)

  • Cattani, G., Mastrogiorgio, & M. Carignani, G. (2025)

    Resource Reallocation across Successive Systemic Innovations: How Rolls-Royce shaped the Evolution of the Turbojet, Turboprop and Turbofan.

    Strategic Management Journal

  • Andriani, P., & Cattani, G. (2024)

    Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Shadow Options: Emergent Functions of Corning’s Glass-Based Innovations

    Organization Science

  • Greenberg, J., Sands, D., Cattani, G., & Porac, J. (2023)

    Rating Systems and Increased Heterogeneity in Firm Performance: Evidence from the New York City Restaurant Industry, 1994-2013.

    Strategic Management Journal

  • Falchetti, F., Cattani, G., & Ferriani, S. (2022)

    Start with ‘Why but Only if You Have to: The Strategic Framing of Novel Ideas across Different Audiences

    Strategic Management Journal, 43(1): 130-159.

  • Cancellieri, G., Cattani, G., & Ferriani, S. (2022)

    Tradition as a Resource: Robust and Radical Interpretations of Operatic Tradition in the Italian Opera Industry, 1989-2011.

    Strategic Management Journal, 43(13): 2703-2741.

  • Cattani, G., & Malerba F. (2021)

    Evolutionary Approaches to Innovation, the Firm and the Dynamics of Industries

    Strategy Science, 6(4): 265-289

  • Engler, D., Cattani, G., & Porac, J. (2020)

    Studying the incubation of a new product market through realized and alternative histories

    Strategy Science, 5(3): 160-192

  • Aadland, E., Cattani, G., & Ferriani, S. (2019)

    Friends, Favours and Cliques: Relational Mechanisms of Recognition in Peer-Based Tournament Rituals

    Academy of Management Journal, 62(3): 883-917

  • Cattani, G., Porac, J., Sands, D., & Greenberg, J. (2018)

    Competitive Sensemaking in Value Creation and Capture

    Strategy Science, 3(4): 632-657.

  • Cattani, G., Ferriani, S., & Lanza, A. (2017)

    Deconstructing the Outsider Puzzle: The Legitimation Journey of Novelty.

    Organization Science, 28(6): 965-992.

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