Curriculum Vitæ

Contact

Identifiers

Academic positions

Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Carlos III University of Madrid
2023–

Assistant Professor of Management
Carlos III University of Madrid
2020–

Assistant Professor of Innovation
University of Amsterdam
2017–2020

Education

Data Science Specialization
Utrecht University
2018

PhD Applied Logic, cum laude
Delft University of Technology
2015–2018

MA Cultural Economics, cum laude
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2011–2012

BA Humanities, summa cum laude
Sierra Nevada College
2009–2011

Selected publications

Piazzai, Michele, Min Liu, and Martina Montauti (2024). Cognitive economy and product categorization. Organization Science.

Piazzai, Michele, and Nachoem Wijnberg (2019). Product proliferation, complexity, and deterrence to imitation in differentiated-product oligopolies. Strategic Management Journal 40(6), 945–958.

Other publications

Journal articles

Vecco, Marilena, Andrej Srakar, and Michele Piazzai (2017). Visitor attitudes toward deaccessioning in Italian public museums: An econometric analysis. Poetics 63, 33–46.

Vecco, Marilena, and Michele Piazzai (2015). Deaccessioning of museum collections: What do we know and where do we stand in Europe? Journal of Cultural Heritage 16(2), 221–227.

Conference proceedings

Liu, Min, Martina Montauti, and Michele Piazzai (2018). Old at heart, young at the periphery: An age-dependence approach to resource partitioning. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 2018(1), 11589.

Conradie, Willem, Sabine Frittella, Alessandra Palmigiano, Michele Piazzai, Apostolos Tzimoulis, and Nachoem Wijnberg (2017). Toward an epistemic-logical theory of categorization. Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 251, 167–186.

Piazzai, Michele, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg (2017). Diversification, proliferation, and firm performance in the US music industry. Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings 2017(1), 16538.

Conradie, Willem, Sabine Frittella, Alessandra Palmigiano, Michele Piazzai, Apostolos Tzimoulis, and Nachoem Wijnberg (2016). Categories: How I learned to stop worrying and love two sorts. Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9803, 145–164.

Online articles

Tomaselli, Angelo, Oguz Acar, Michele Piazzai, and Nachoem Wijnberg (2024). When more is more. California Management Review Insights.

Piazzai, Michele, and Marilena Vecco (2020). Deaccessioning. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, Oxford Bibliographies Online.

Invited seminars

UNED Madrid, 2023
University of Warwick, 2020
Carlos III University of Madrid, 2019
NOVA University of Lisbon, 2019
Pompeu Fabra University, 2019
IE University, 2019
Chapman University, 2019
University of Amsterdam, 2018
Durham University, 2017
University of Amsterdam, 2017

Conferences and workshops

EGOS Conference, 2024
Nagymaros Conference, 2023
Nagymaros Conference, 2021
Nagymaros Conference, 2020
Nagymaros Conference, 2019
AOM Conference, 2019
Nagymaros Conference, 2018
Applied Logic Workshop, 2018
SMS Conference, 2017
AOM Conference, 2017
Nagymaros Conference, 2017
Creative Industries Workshop, 2017
Logic and Algebra Workshop, 2017
Workshop on Logic and Cognition, 2016
AOM Conference, 2016
EGOS Conference, 2016
Lorentz Workshop, 2016
Logic and Algebra Workshop, 2016
Logic and Algebra Workshop, 2015
EGOS Conference, 2015
EGOS Conference, 2014
IASPM Conference, 2014

Research visits

Pompeu Fabra University, 2019
Chapman University, 2019
University of Johannesburg, 2017
University of Johannesburg, 2016
Stanford University, 2016
University of Johannesburg, 2015
Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2013

Courses

Carlos III University of Madrid

Organizational Design, 2020–1
Strategic Management, 2020–2022

University of Amsterdam

Thesis Research Workshop, 2019–20201
Innovation Management, 2018–20201
Creative Entrepreneurship, 2017–2019
Cultural Innovation, 2015–2019
Strategy in Creative Industries, 2015–2017

Delft University of Technology

Strategic Decision-Making, 2016–20172
Economics and Technology, 2015–20162
Ethics and Engineering, 2015–20172

Grants

Ramón y Cajal Fellowship
Spanish Ministry of Science
2023–2027

Knowledge Generation Project3
Spanish Ministry of Science
2021–2024

Undergraduate Scholarship
Sierra Nevada College
2010–2011

Undergraduate Scholarship
National Italian American Foundation
2009–2010

Awards

UC3M Business Teaching Award
Carlos III University of Madrid
2022–2023

UC3M Business Teaching Award
Carlos III University of Madrid
2021–2022

UC3M Business Teaching Award
Carlos III University of Madrid
2020–2021

Departmental Scholar Award
Sierra Nevada College
2011

Service

Organizing Committee
Nagymaros Conference
2024

Strategic Funding Group
Carlos III University of Madrid
2023–

Scientific Committee
Nagymaros Conference
2020

Business Program Committee
University of Amsterdam
2018–2019

Organizing Committee
Applied Logic Workshop
2018

Peer reviews

Management Science
Organization Science
Organization Studies
Strategy Science

Languages

Natural: Italian, English, Spanish
Scripting: Bash, Python
Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Data: R, Stata, SQL, VBA
Typesetting: LaTeX

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  2. As teaching assistant ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. As co-applicant ↩