Instructor’s biography
Santi Furnari is Professor of Strategy at the Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London. He has held visiting faculty positions at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and at the University of Chicago. He completed his Ph.D. at Bocconi University where he also obtained an MSc cum laude.
Prof. Furnari studies how fields, industries and practices emerge, particularly in the context of creative industries and creative projects. He is also an expert of organization design, business models and configurational thinking.
Prof. Furnari uses a variety of theories (such as institutional theory, configurational theory) and methods (such as qualitative methods, historical methods and fuzzy-set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis or fs/QCA).
His paper titled “A Chemistry of Organization” (with Anna Grandori) has been among the first empirical applications of the fs/QCA methodology in organization studies.
His research has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Human Relations, and Strategic Organization (among others).
His paper titled “Interstitial Spaces” has received the AMR Best Paper Award for the best paper published in the Academy of Management Review in 2014.
He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Organization Theory, Strategic Organization, and Journal of Management Studies.