Gino Cattani

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior

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44 West 4th Street

New York, NY 10012

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  • New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

  • New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior

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Categories and Competition

Singapore Management University School of Business Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani, Joseph F. Porac and Howard Thomas
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior and Independent
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Categories, competition, strategic groups, cross-elasticities, sensemaking

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Tackling the ‘Galácticos’ Effect: Team Familiarity and the Performance of Star-Studded Projects

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Dec 2012
Gino Cattani, Simone Ferriani, Marcello M. Mariani and Stefano Mengoli
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Bologna - Department of Management, University of Bologna - School of Economics, Management, and Statistics and University of Bologna - Department of Management
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project performance, familiarity, stars, Hollywood Film Industry

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Exaptation as Source of Creativity, Innovation, and Diversity: Introduction to the Special Section

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2016, Vol. 25, No. 1, 115–131
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Pierpaolo Andriani and Gino Cattani
Durham University - Business School and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Exaptation, predaptation, radical innovation, artifact, functional shift, technology, niche

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Technological Pre-Adaptation, Speciation, and Emergence of New Technologies: How Corning Invented and Developed Fiber Optics

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 285-318, 2006
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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preadaptation, speciation, technological innovation, radical innovation, foresight, luck, strategy

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Start with “Why,” but only if you have to: The strategic framing of novel ideas across different audiences

Strategic Management Journal, 43( 1), 130– 15 (2021) doi.org/10.1002/smj.3329
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2023
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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audiences, framing, narratives/storytelling, novel idea, novices/ experts

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Competitive Sensemaking in Value Creation and Capture

Gino Cattani, Daniel Sands, Joe Porac, Jason Greenberg (2018) Competitive Sensemaking in Value Creation and Capture. Strategy Science 3(4):632-657. doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2018.0069
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Jul 2022
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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value creation and capture, sensemaking, competition, third-parties, market relationships

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Project-Based Organizing and Strategic Management: A Long-Term Research Agenda on Temporary Organizational Forms

Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 28, xv-xxxix, (2011) DOI: 10.1108/S0742-3322(2011)0000028004
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Feb 2018
Gino Cattani, Simone Ferriani, Lars Frederiksen and Florian A. Täube
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Bologna - Department of Management, Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences and European Management School
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Functional Diversification and Exaptation: The Emergence of New Drug Uses in the Pharma Industry

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 00, 1–25 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtac023
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Gino Cattani and Pierpaolo Andriani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Euromed Management
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Functional Diversification, Exaptation, Shadow Options, Innovation, Pharma industry, Technological Resources, Functionalities

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Studying the Incubation of a New Product Market Through Realized and Alternative Histories

Daniel Engler, Gino Cattani, Joe Porac (2020) Studying the Incubation of a New Product Market Through Realized and Alternative Histories. Strategy Science 5(3):160-192. doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2020.0102
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Jul 2022
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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market emergence, incubation, managerial beliefs, history-friendly simulation, fractal geometry, counterfactual analysis, realized and alternative histories, minivan

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Evolutionary chimeras: a Woesian perspective of radical innovation

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, Vol. 28, No. 3, 511–528 doi: 10.1093/icc/dty077
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Jul 2022
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Radical Innovation, Woesial Model, Horizontal Transfer, Functional Modules, Exaptation, Preadaptation, Turbojet Revolution, Replicative/Integrative Capabilities, Analogy

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Reply to Dew's (2007) Commentary: Pre-Adaptation, Exaptation and Technology Speciation: A Comment on Cattani (2006)

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 585-596, 2008
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Preadaptation, exaptation, technological change, evolutionary theory

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Tradition as a resource: Robust and radical interpretations of operatic tradition in the Italian opera industry, 1989–2011

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, 1– 39. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3436
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Jul 2022
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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audience heterogeneity, expertise, Italian opera industry, resource, robust/radical interpretations, schemas, tradition

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Friends, Gifts, and Cliques: Social Proximity and Recognition in Peer-based Tournament Rituals

Academy of Management Journal 2019, Vol. 62, No. 3, 883–917. doi.org/10.5465/amj.2016.0437
Posted: 01 Aug 2023
Erik Aadland, Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani
BI Norwegian Business School, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Bologna

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Social Evaluation, Audiences, Social Proximity, Peer-Based Recognition, Cliques, Tournament Rituals, Cultural Fields, Advertising

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

Gino Cattani, Franco Malerba (2021) Evolutionary Approaches to Innovation, the Firm, and the Dynamics of Industries. Strategy Science 6(4):265-289. doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2021.0141, Bocconi University Management Research Paper
Posted: 01 Aug 2023
Gino Cattani and Franco Malerba
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology

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Evolution, Evolutionary Theory, Firm Heterogeneity, Performance, Industry Evolution, Exaptation, Preadaptation, Firm Entry/Exit, History Friendly Modeling, Sectoral Systems of Innovation, Innovation

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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Founding Patterns

Organization Science, Vol. 14, No. 6, November–December 2003, pp. 670–685
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani, Johannes Pennings and Filippo Carlo Wezel
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and University of Lugano

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Density-Dependence, Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity, Social Contagion, Industry Evolution

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Competitive Implications of Inter-Firm Mobility

Organization Science, Vol. 17, No. 6, November–December 2006, pp. 691–709
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Filippo Carlo Wezel, Gino Cattani and Johannes Pennings
University of Lugano, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Management Department

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Interfirm mobility, routines replication, competition

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The Relational Antecedents of Project-Entrepreneurship: Network Centrality, Team Composition and Project Performance

Research Policy 38 (2009) 1545–1558
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Simone Ferriani, Gino Cattani and Charles Baden‐Fuller
University of Bologna - Department of Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and City University, London - Cass Business School

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Project-entrepreneur Network centrality Team composition Commercial performance Feature film industry

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The Structure of Consensus: Network Ties, Legitimation, and Exit Rates of U.S. Feature Film Producer Organizations

Administrative Science Quarterly, 53 (2008): 145–182
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani, Simone Ferriani, Giacomo Negro and Fabrizio Perretti
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Bologna - Department of Management, Emory University, Goizueta Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology

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Consensus, audience, legitimation, connectivity, repeated ties, turnover, exit rate, movie industry

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The Value of Moderate Obsession: Insights from a New Model of Organizational Search

Organization Science, Vol. 18, No. 3, May–June 2007, pp. 403–419
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Sidney G. Winter, Gino Cattani and Alex Dorsch
University of Pennsylvania - Management Department, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Equity Derivatives, Bear Stearns & Company

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rugged landscapes, local search, cognition, direction, fractal geometry

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Preadaptation, Firm Heterogeneity, and Technological Performance: A Study on the Evolution of Fiber Optics, 1970–1995

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Preadaptation, Firm Heterogeneity, and Technological Performance: A Study on the Evolution of Fiber Optics, 1970–1995

Organization Science, Vol. 16, No. 6, November–December 2005, pp. 563–580
Posted: 26 Jun 2016
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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Prior experience, preadaptation, initial conditions, technological performance, luck, foresight, patents, fiber optics

Preadaptation, Firm Heterogeneity, and Technological Performance: A Study on the Evolution of Fiber Optics, 1970–1995

Organization Science 16(6):563-580, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1050.0145
Posted: 27 Jul 2023
Gino Cattani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

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Prior experience; preadaptation; initial conditions; technological performance

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Value Creation and Knowledge Loss: The Case of Cremonese Stringed Instruments

Organization Science, 2013, 18(3): 403-419
Posted: 26 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Gino Cattani, Roger L. M. Dunbar and Zur Shapira
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior and Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics

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Field, value creation, knowledge loss, apprenticeship, historical case, stringed instruments

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A Core/Periphery Perspective on Individual Creative Performance: Social Networks and Cinematic Achievements in the Hollywood Film Industry

Organization Science, Vol. 19, No. 6, November–December 2008, pp. 824–844
Posted: 26 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Gino Cattani and Simone Ferriani
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Bologna - Department of Management

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creative performance; social networks; core/periphery; film industry

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Insiders, Outsiders and the Struggle for Consecration in Cultural Fields: A Core-Periphery Perspective

American Sociological Review 2014, Vol. 79(2) 258–281
Posted: 26 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Gino Cattani, Simone Ferriani and Paul D. Allison
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Bologna - Department of Management and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Sociology

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consecration, peers and critics, cultural producers, core/periphery, film industry