Stoyan V. SGOUREV

Stoyan V. SGOUREV

Paris

Professor in Cultural Management

Presentation

Stoyan V. Sgourev is a Professor of Cultural Management He joined EM Normandie in February 2024. He has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University awarded in 2004, and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Sloan. His research is focused on the creative industries, covering topics such as innovation and evaluation practices, technological change, and factors of creativity. He has also written on historical practices of management and of market construction. He has curated exhibitions and is active in promoting digital art.

Professional experience

Since 2024: professor in Cultural Management, EM Normandie 
 

 

Department
Organisational studies & HR Management
Subjects taught
Management in the Creative Industries
Degrees
2024 : PhD in Sociology, Stanford University

Publications

  • Sgourev, S 2024, 'How Silence Grows Louder', Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. ABS : 1.

    2024

    Academic articles

  • Estévez, J-L, Salihović, D & Sgourev, S 2024, 'Endogenous dynamics of denunciation: Evidence from an inquisitorial trial', PNAS Nexus, vol. 3, Issue 9, September, p. 340.

    2024

    Academic articles

  • Estévez, J-L, Salihović, D & Sgourev, S 2024, 'Endogenous dynamics of denunciation: Evidence from an inquisitorial trial', PNAS Nexus, vol. 3, Issue 9, September, p. 340.

    2024

    Academic articles

  • Lampronti, S, Operti, E & Sgourev, S (forthcoming), 'Rivalry as a contextual factor of gender inequality in network returns', Journal of Management Studies. FNEGE : 1 ; ABS : 4 ; FT50.

    2024

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Aadland, E 2023, '“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity', Theory and Society, vol. 52, pp. 65-93.

    2023

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V, Aadland, E & Formilan, G 2022, 'Relations in Aesthetic Space: How Color Enables Market Positioning', Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 68, issue 1, pp. 146-185. FNEGE : 1* ; ABS : 4*. 

    2022

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2021, 'Materiality as a Basis for Valuation Entrepreneurship: Re-modeling Impressionism', Organization Science, vol. 32, issue 5, pp. 1149-1390. FNEGE : 1* ; ABS : 4*.

    2021

    Academic articles

  • Operti, E, Sgourev, S.V & Lampronti, S.Y 2021, 'Choose Your Enemies Well: Mapping, Managing, and Leveraging Rivalry', California Management Review, vol. 64, issue 1, november, pp. 29-46. FNEGE : 2 ; ABS : 3.

    2021

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2021, 'Changing perspective: An “optical” approach to creativity', Poetics, vol. 89, December. 

    2021

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2021, 'Categorical Bifurcation: The Rite of Spring at the Threshold of Modernism', Cultural Sociology, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 292-310.

    2021

    Academic articles

  • Operti, O, Lampronti, S.Y & Sgourev, S.V 2020, 'Hold Your Horses: Temporal Multiplexity and Conflict Moderation in the Palio di Siena (1743–2010)', Organization Science, vol. 31, issue 1, pp. 1-262. FNEGE : 1* ; ABS : 4*. 

    2020

    Academic articles

  • Cattani, G., Ferriani, S., Godart, F & Sgourev, S.V. 2020, 'The Aesthetic Turn in Strategy: Creating Value with Style', Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 42. FNEGE : 3 ; ABS : 2.

    2020

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Operti, E 2019, 'From Montagues to Capulets: Analyzing the Systemic Nature of Rivalry in Career Mobility', Academy of Management Journal, vol. 61, n. 5.

    2019

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Althuizen, N 2017, 'Is It a Masterpiece? Social Construction and Objective Constraint in the Evaluation of Excellence', Social Psychology Quarterly, vol. 80, issue 4, pp. 289-309. 

    2017

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & 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, vol. 70, issue 11, pp. 1293-1315. FNEGE : 1.

    2017

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2015, 'The Broker as a Catalyst:  How Diaghilev’s “Ballets Russes” Escalated Modernism', Organization Studies, vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 343-361. FNEGE : 1.

    2015

    Academic articles

  • Althuizen, N & Sgourev, S.V 2014, 'Pièces de Résistance? Core and Casual Consumers' Valuations of Aesthetically Incongruent Artworks', Psychology and Marketing, vol. 31, issue 8, pp. 604-614. FNEGE : 2.

    2014

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Althuizen, N 2014, 'Notable” or “Not Able””? When Are Acts of Inconsistency Rewarded', American Sociological Review, vol. 79, issue 2, April, pp. 282-302. 

    2014

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & van Lent, W 2014, 'Balancing Permission and Prohibition: Private Trade and Adaptation at the VOC', Social Forces, vol. 93, issue 3, pp. 933-955. 

    2014

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2013, 'How Paris Gave Rise to Cubism (and Picasso): Ambiguity and Fragmentation in Radical Innovation', Organization Science, vol. 24, issue 6, November-December, pp. 1601-1869. FNEGE : 1.

    2013

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2013, 'The dynamics of risk in innovation: a premiere or an encore?', Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 22, issue 2, April, pp. 549-575. 

    2013

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2011, 'Wall Street” meets Wagner: Harnessing institutional heterogeneity', Theory and Society, vol. 40, pp. 385-416.

    2011

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2011, 'Leaving in Droves: Exit Chains in Network Attrition', The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 52, issue 3, pp. 421-441.

    2011

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Zuckerman, Ezra W 2011, 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Irrational Overcommitment in an Industry Peer   Network', Rationality and Society, vol. 23, issue 1, February, pp. 3-34.

    2011

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2010, 'The Explosive Rise of a Political Party: The Logic of Sudden Convergence', European Sociological Review, vol. 26, issue 6, December, pp. 639-654.

    2010

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V & Zuckerman, E 2006, 'Improving Capabilities Through Industry Peer Networks Change Management Analysis & Solution', Sloan Management Review.

    2006

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S.V 2006, 'Lake Wobegon Upside Down: The Paradox of Status Devaluation', Social Forces, vol. 84, pp. 1497-1519.

    2006

    Academic articles

  • Zuckerman, E.W & Sgourev, S.V 2006, 'Peer Capitalism: Parallel Relationships in the U.S. Economy', American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, n. 5.

    2006

    Academic articles

  • Sgourev, S, Santoni, S & Yu, E 2024, 'Legitimacy judgements and consensus among cultural intermediaries: Evidence from European art galleries, 1904–1915', EGOS Conference, Milan, Italy, July 3-6.
     

    2024

    Academic communications

  • Lampronti, S.Y, Operti, E & Sgourev, S. V 2018, 'Rivalry Flips the Script: Relational-Cognitive Differences in Gendered Response to Rivalry', Intra-organizational Network (ION) Conference.

    2018

    Academic communications

  • Sgourev, S.V 2021, 'nside Out: When Ideas from the Core are Radicalized on the Periphery', Schuessler, E., Cohendet, P. and Svejenova, S. (Ed.) Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 75), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 19-37.

    2021

    Research books and book chapters

  • Sgourev, S.V 2020, 'The Alchemy of Painting: How the Technology of Oil Paint Transmuted Art', Art. In: Strandgaard Pedersen, J., Slavich, B., Khaire, M. (eds) Technology and Creativity, Palgrave-McMillan, pp. 37-62, January.

    2020

    Research books and book chapters

  • Sgourev, S.V 2018, 'Strange Bedfellows: Art and Finance or the Monet-ization of Art', Jones, C. and Maoret, M. (Ed.) Frontiers of Creative Industries: Exploring Structural and Categorical Dynamics (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 73-101.

    2018

    Research books and book chapters

  • Sgourev, S.V 2016, 'Dangerous Liaisons: Bridging Micro and Macro Levels in Creativity Research', In: Corazza, G., Agnoli, S. (eds) Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking. Creativity in the Twenty First Century. Springer, Singapore, pp. 103-116. 

    2016

    Research books and book chapters

  • Sgourev, S.V 2009, 'When the Music Stopped: Complexity, Opacity and Risk', in “The Responsible Leadership” L’Extenso Editions. 

    2009

    Research books and book chapters

  • Sgourev, S. V 2024, 'Mode et cinéma : comédie romantique ou mariage de convenance ?', The Conversation, March 28.

    2024

    Articles in professional journals