Massimo Warglien
Visiting Professor for Organization Studies

Visiting Professor for Organization Studies
Professor at the Venice School of Management, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 1989-2025 (retired May 2025). Member of the Centre for Digital and Public Humanities and the Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari.
He as published in major scientific journals, including Science, PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Games and Economic Behavior, Physica A, Synthèse, Journal of Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.
He has held visiting positions in major international universities and research centres in Europe, US, and India.
His current research focuses on formal models of qualitative thinking in strategy and innovation, on semantics and sensemaking, on reflective AI for organizations and society, on information theory for organization theory, and on organizing beyond human boundaries, based on an ethnographic project on human-plants interactions in Northeastern India.
He as published in major scientific journals, including Science, PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Games and Economic Behavior, Physica A, Synthèse, Journal of Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Frontiers in Psychology, and Frontiers in Neuroscience.
He has held visiting positions in major international universities and research centres in Europe, US, and India.
His current research focuses on formal models of qualitative thinking in strategy and innovation, on semantics and sensemaking, on reflective AI for organizations and society, on information theory for organization theory, and on organizing beyond human boundaries, based on an ethnographic project on human-plants interactions in Northeastern India.
- Management department
- Faculty
PUBLICATIONS
Christensen, M., Dahl, C., Knudsen, T., Warglien, M., 2023. Context and Aggregation: An Experimental Study of Bias and Discrimination in Organizational Decisions, Organization Science Vol. 34(6), pp. 2163-2181.

OFFICE HOURS
During the lecture period
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OFFICE HOURS
During the lecture period
By appointment available upon request via email.