SGOUREV Stoyan

Post Doctoral Fellow at IMVP, MIT (Sloan School of Management) - Cambridge, USA

• 2004 : Ph.D. in Sociology (Stanford University, United States of America )
• 1950 : MA Sociology (Central European University, Poland )
• 1950 : MA Sociology (University of Sofia, Bulgaria )

Full-time academic appointments

• 2012 - Present : Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2009 - 2012 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2006 - 2009 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 2004 - 2006 : Post Doctoral Fellow at IMVP (MIT Sloan School of Management, United States of America)

• 2018 : The symposium co-organized with Shemuel Lampronti (PhD) was selected as one of the finalists for the best symposium award of the OMT Division a la Academy of Management Conference 2018 in Chicago.

• SGOUREV, S. (2020). Categorical Bifurcation: The Rite of Spring at the Threshold of Modernism. Cultural Sociology,.
• SGOUREV, S., GODART, F. and CLAES, K. (2020). Aesthetic and Technological Complexity in Luxury Watchmaking. Advances in Strategic Management, 42.
• SGOUREV, S. and OPERTI, E. (2019). From Montagues To Capulets? Analyzing the Systemic Nature of Rivalry in Career Mobility. Academy of Management Journal, 62(5).
• OPERTI, E., LAMPRONTI, S. and SGOUREV, S. (2019). Hold your horses: Temporal multiplexity and conflict moderation in the "Palio di Siena" (1743-2010). Organization Science, 31(1).
• SGOUREV, S. (2018). Strange Bedfellows: Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Art. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 55(1), pp. 73-101.
• SGOUREV, S. and ALTHUIZEN, N. (2017). Is It a Masterpiece? Social Construction and Objective Constraint in the Evaluation of Excellence. Social Psychology Quarterly, 80(4), pp. 289-309.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2017). When Too Many Are Not Enough: Human Resource Slack and Performance at the Dutch East India Company (1700–1795). Human Relations, 70(11), pp. 1-23.
• SGOUREV, S. (2015). Balancing Permission and Prohibition: Private Trade and Adaptation at the VOC. Social Forces, 93(3), pp. 933-955.
• SGOUREV, S. (2015). Brokerage as Catalysis: How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Escalated Modernism. Organization Studies, 36(3), pp. 343-361.
• SGOUREV, S. and ALTHUIZEN, N. (2014). “Notable” or “Not Able”: When Are Acts of Inconsistency Rewarded?. American Sociological Review, 79(2), pp. 283-302.
• ALTHUIZEN, N. and SGOUREV, S. (2014). Pièces de Résistance? Core and Casual Consumers’ Valuations of Aesthetically Incongruent Artworks. Psychology and Marketing, 31(8), pp. 604-614.
• SGOUREV, S. (2013). How Paris Gave Rise to Cubism (and Picasso): Ambiguity and Fragmentation in Radical Innovation. Organization Science, 24(6), pp. 1601-1617.
• SGOUREV, S. (2013). The Dynamics of Risk in Innovation: A Premiere or an Encore?. Industrial and Corporate Change, 22(2), pp. 549-575.
• SGOUREV, S. (2011). "Wall Street" Meets Wagner: Harnessing Institutional Heterogeneity. Theory and Society, 40(4), pp. 385-416.
• SGOUREV, S. and ZUCKERMAN, E.W. (2011). Breaking up is hard to do: Irrational inconsistency in commitment to an industry peer network. Rationality and Society, 23(1), pp. 3-34.
• SGOUREV, S. (2011). Leaving in Droves: Exit Chains in Network Attrition. Sociological Quarterly, 52(3), pp. 421-441.
• SGOUREV, S. (2009). The Explosive Rise of a Political Party: The Logic of 'Sudden Convergence'. European Sociological Review, 26(6), pp. 639-654.
• SGOUREV, S. (2008). Les réseaux de pairs, un rempart anti-complaisance. Business Digest,, pp. 24-26.
• SGOUREV, S. (2006). Improving Capabilities Through Industry Peer Networks. Sloan Management Review,, pp. 33-38.
• SGOUREV, S. (2006). Lake Wobegon Upside Down; The Paradox of Status Devaluation. Social Forces,, pp. 1497-1519.
• SGOUREV, S. (2006). Peer Capitalism: Parallel Relationships in the U.S. Economy. American Journal of Sociology, 111, pp. 1327-1366.

• SGOUREV, S. (2020). The Alchemy of Painting: How the Technology of Oil Paint Transmuted Art In: Technology and Creativity: Production, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-62.
• SGOUREV, S. (2015). Dangerous Liaisons: Bridging Micro and Macro Levels in Creativity Research In: Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking. 1st ed. Springer, pp. 103-116.
• SGOUREV, S. (2009). Modéliser la complexité, l'opacité et le risque ? Le jour où la musique s'est arrêtée... In: Le leadership responsable. Un allié sûr contre la crise. 1st ed. Gualino. Lextenso éditions, pp. 101-112.

• SGOUREV, S., CATTANI , G., FERRIANI , S. and GODART, F. (2020). Aesthetics and Style in Strategy. Advances in Strategic Management, 42.

• OPERTI, E., SGOUREV, S. and LAMPRONTI, S. (2015). A War in Ninety Seconds: Moderation and Escalation of Neighbourhood Rivalry in The "Palio Di Siena". In: 2015 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management.
• ALTHUIZEN, N. and SGOUREV, S. (2011). Begging to Differ: The Role of Status and Stylistic Inconsistency in Product Evaluation. In: The Day After: Inspiration, Innovation, Implementation. University of Ljubljana.

• SGOUREV, S. (2019). Materiality and Making in Organizing and Evaluation. In: 2019 Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey.
• SGOUREV, S. (2019). Materiality and Making in organizing and Evaluation: Reconsidering Impressionism. In: 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019.
• SGOUREV, S. (2019). Reversing Tempering: When Ideas at the Core are Radicalized at the Periphery. In: 2019 Workshop on Innovation and Creativity.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2019). Strategic Alternation of Stakeholder Salience: Insights From “Monte dei Paschi di Siena” (1996-2012). In: 2019 INFORMS Organization Science Winter Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. (2019). The Bifurcation of the Art Market and the Long Shadow of the Financial Sector. In: 15th International Conference on Arts.
• SGOUREV, S. (2019). The Endogenous Nature of Creativity. In: 2019 European Collaborative Creativity Conference (EC3).
• SGOUREV, S. (2018). Art and Finance: Historical Links and Mutual Attraction. In: 2018 Researching art market practices from past to present.
• SGOUREV, S. (2018). How Oil Paint Transmuted Art: Material Practice, Evaluation and Professional Identity. In: 2018 Creative Industries Annual Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. (2018). Quantitative analysis of relational data in art: possibilities and challenges. In: 2018 Exhibition Databases: Modern European Painting 1905-1915.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). Relational-Cognitive Differences in Gendered Response to Rivalry. In: 78th Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). Rivalry Flips the Script: Relational-Cognitive Differences in Gendered Response to Rivalry. In: 2018 Intra-organizational Network (ION) Conference.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). The Art of Manouvering Logics: Insights from the “Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena” (1996-2012). In: 2018 LUISS Paper Development Workshop on Hybrid Organizations.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). The Art of Manouvering Logics: Insights from the “Monte dei Paschi di Siena” (1996-2012). In: 2018 Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. (2018). The Bifurcation of the Art Market. Precedents and Consequences. In: International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA) Annual Conference 2018.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). The dynamic capability of juggling logics: Studying the oldest hybrid in the world. In: 34th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2018.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2018). The Innovate or Die Myth. In: 2018 Doriot INSEAD Entrepreneurship Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. (2017). Radicalization of Innovation and Structural Marginality: Art at the Juncture of Tradition and Avant-Garde. In: 33rd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2017.
• LAMPRONTI, S.Y., OPERTI, E. and SGOUREV, S. (2017). Rivalry Flips the Script: Gender Effects in Network Recall and Activation. In: 2017 Academy of Management Meeting.
• SGOUREV, S. (2017). Salons, Secessions and Fairs: Historical Links and Benefits. In: 2017 Creative Industries Workshop.
• SGOUREV, S. (2017). Wicket Game: Commercialization and Inequality in Cricket. In: 2017 Conference "Politics and Policy of Sport and Recreation".
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Contemporary Art. In: Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Contemporary Art.
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Contemporary Art. In: 32nd European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2016.
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Creativity as Optical Illusion  the Role of Perceptual Repositioning. In: 2nd MIC Conference on Creativity 2016.
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Recoding Practices in Categorical Emergence: the “Rite of Spring” (1913) and the Bifurcation of Ballet. In: 2016 British academy of Management Annual Conference (BAM2016).
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Recoding Practices in Categorical emergence: the Rite of Spring (1913) and the Bifurcation of Ballet. In: DRUID16 20th Anniversary Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. (2016). Strange Bedfellows: Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Art. In: 2016 Creative Industries Conference.
• OPERTI, E., LAMPRONTI, S.Y. and SGOUREV, S. (2015). A War in Ninety Seconds: Competitive Intensity of Neighborhood Rivalry in the "Palio di Siena" (1743-2010). In: Networks and Formal Organizational Structure.
• OPERTI, E., SGOUREV, S. and LAMPRONTI, S. (2015). A War in Ninety Seconds: Competitive Intensity of Neighbourhood Rivalry in the "Palio di Siena" (1743-2010). In: 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2015.
• OPERTI, E., SGOUREV, S. and LAMPRONTI, S. (2015). A war in ninety seconds: Moderation and escalation of neighbourhood rivalry in the "Palio di Siena". In: American Sociological Association (ASA) 2015 Annual Meeting.
• OPERTI, E., SGOUREV, S. and LAMPRONTI, S. (2015). If Leaving, Close the Door: Status Asymmetry and Identity Constraints in Career Mobility. In: XXXV Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
• OPERTI, E., LAMPRONTI, S.Y. and SGOUREV, S. (2014). Studying Cognitive Social Structures in Strategy Research: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration. In: 2017 SMS Milan Special Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2014). When Too Many Are Not Enough: Performance Implications of "Imposed" Diversity at the VOC. In: 7th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2014). When Too Many Are Not Enough: Performance Implications of "Imposed" Diversity at the VOC. In: 30th European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2014.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2014). When Too Many Are Not Enough: Performance Implications of "Imposed" Diversity at the VOC. In: 14th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management (EURAM).
• SGOUREV, S. (2013). Brokerage as Catalysis: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes or the "Other" Russian Revolution. In: 1st MIC Conference 2013.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2013). Local Elites Versus Dominant Shareholders: 200 Years of Dividend Policy at the Dutch East India Company. In: European Historical Economics Society Conference 2013.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2013). Local Elites versus Dominant Shareholders: Dividend Smoothing at the Dutch East India Company. In: 17th Annual EBHA Congress 2013.
• SGOUREV, S. (2013). The Broker as a Catalyst: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes or the "other" Russian Revolution. In: 3rd INTERREG Conference: Creative Industries: Think Tanks for Innovative Practices in Management, Strategy and Organization?.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2012). Local Power in a Global Business. In: 32nd Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference 2012.
• VAN LENT, W. and SGOUREV, S. (2012). Local Power in a Global Business: 200 Years of Dividend Policy in the Dutch East India Company. In: Paper Development Workshop on Power and Institutions 2012.
• VAN LENT, W. and SGOUREV, S. (2012). Paths to Social Change: Mobilization, Institution Building, and Entrepreneurship in Colonial India. In: 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• VAN LENT, W. and SGOUREV, S. (2012). Paths to Social Change: Mobilization, Institution Building, and Entrepreneurship in Colonial India. In: 28th EGOS Colloquium 2012.
• SGOUREV, S. (2012). The Broker as a Catalyst: Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes" and Modern Art. In: 28th EGOS Colloqium 2012.
• SGOUREV, S. (2012). The Broker as a Catalyst: Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes" and Modern Art. In: 4th Workshop on Managing Cultural Organisations.
• SGOUREV, S. and VAN LENT, W. (2011). The Right Amount of Wrong? Private Trade and Public Interest at the VOC. In: EGOS Annual Meeting 2011.

• SGOUREV, S., CATTANI , G., FERRIANI , S. and GODART, F. (2020). The Aesthetic Turn in Strategy: Creating Value with Style. Advances in Strategic Management, 42.

• SGOUREV, S. (2016)When Unexpected Developments Become Powerful Catalysts for Creativity. Reflets Hors-Série ESSEC Knowledge, pp. 62-64.
• SGOUREV, S. (2015)Ce que la flambée des prix de l'art nous dit de la société. Huffington Post.
• SGOUREV, S. (2015)Le Nu couché de Modigliani fait s'envoler le marché. Huffington Post.
• SGOUREV, S. (2013)Oscars 2013: l'équilibre d'une industrie culturelle. Huffington Post.
• SGOUREV, S. (2008)Quand l'entrepreneuriat devient un projet collectif. Les Echos, pp. 6-7.