Prato, Matteo

Matteo Prato joined the Department of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School as Associate Professor in September 2019. Before joining ESADE, he was Associate Professor at USI Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. and Master of Research in Management from IESE Business School, where he also served as a post-doctoral researcher. He has been visiting researcher at Stanford University and Columbia University. His current research interests lie at the intersection of economic sociology and organization theory, with particular emphasis on the role that social structures e.g., status hierarchies, social networks, and categorization systems play in shaping market valuations and in enhancing actors' performance. His research has been published in the leading journals in the field of Management and Sociology such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, and funded by the most prestigious institutions such as the US National Science Foundation NSF and the European Research Council ERC