OVERVIEW
My main research interests include social evaluation processes (responses to feedback, reputation, and status dynamics) and innovation management. I’m particularly interested in creative and cultural industries, and in how digitization indirectly shapes firms’ strategic choices.
PUBLICATIONS
Michelin is coming to town: Organizational responses to status shocks.
[Favaron S.D., Di Stefano G., Durand R.] – Forthcoming at Management Science
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Abstract
What happens in the aftermath of the introduction of a new status ranking? In this study, we exploit the unique empirical opportunity generated by the release of the first edition of the Michelin Guide for Washington D.C. in the fall of 2016. We build on prior work on rankings as insecurity-inducing devices by suggesting that newly awarded high-status actors modify their self-presentation attributes to fit with what they believe audiences expect from the elite. Our results show that, depending on their standing prior to Michelin’s entry, restaurants acted upon different attributes of their self-presentation. Restaurants with high prior standing emphasized attributes that channeled authenticity and exclusivity, which may imply their Michelin designation triggered operational changes. Actors with low prior standing, on the other hand, acted on descriptive attributes that did not necessarily imply operational changes and could be easily manipulated to signal their belonging among the elite. We contribute to research on status and conformity by disentangling the sources and types of conformity behaviors that newly awarded high-status actors deploy.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Too blind to see? A Study of Attentional Selection in the context of online customer feedback.
[Favaron S.D., Di Stefano G.] – Revise and Resubmit at Organization Science
Reputation dynamics in the digital age: addressing online threats to organizational reputation.
[with Medappa P.K.] - Best Proposal for Creativity in Research - Competitive Strategy - SMS Toronto 2021
You Can Make it Here, but not Anywhere: Fit and Portability of Employee Performance.
[with Thomas A.]
Demand Effects and Organizational Responses to Status Shocks.
[with Di Stefano G. and King A.A.]
A Field Experiment on the Performance Implications of Different Types of Early Stage Feedback.
[with Medappa P.K.]
Pre-PhD Publications (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Lepri che vincono la crisi: Storie di aziende (quasi medie) vincenti nei mercati globali
[Paolo Gubitta, Alessandra Tognazzo, Favaron S.D.] - Marsilio Editori.
Does slack always affect resilience? A study of quasi-medium-sized Italian firms
[Alessandra Tognazzo, Paolo Gubitta, Favaron S.D.] - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 28 (9-10), 768-790.