Ileana Stigliani
Associate Professor of Design and Innovation
at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department,Imperial College London
Main Topics:
Her ‘core expertise’ revolves around issues such as:
- Innovation
- Design thinking
- Creativity and the role of the latter in terms of corporate competitiveness and the creation of competitive advantage
Furthermore, she also deals with identity issues, the role of identity and organizational culture for business success and the relationship between individuals and technologies, as well as changes taking place in the world of work, new occupations etc.
Professional Profile:
Ileana Stigliani is Associate Professor of Design and Innovation at Imperial College Business School in London. She received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University.
Ileana’s research on creativity, design and innovation and their impact on competitive advantage has been published in many international outlets, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, ecc. Ileana teaches Design Thinking and Design for Business Transformation to MSc, MBA students and Executives.
In 2016, she received the Teaching Excellence Award for innovation in teaching from the Dean of the Business School.
In 2018, Ileana was recognised for her outstanding teaching by Poets and Quants, a prestigious international business education website that covers news about business schools and MBA degree programmes. In the same year, she was awarded the“Associazione Gianluca Spina” award from ASFOR (Associazione Italiana per la Formazione Manageriale) for best Italian researcher under 40 years.
In 2019, she received the best paper award for her article in the Journal of Management Studies.
Selected Works:
- The Physical Work Environment and Creativity ( 2019 )
KD Elsbach, I Stigliani
Organizational Behaviour and the Physical Environment, 13 - New information technology and implicit bias ( 2019 )
KD Elsbach, I Stigliani
Academy of Management Perspectives 33 (2), 185-206 - Identity Co-Formation in an Emerging Industry: Forging Organizational Distinctiveness and Industry Coherence Through Sensemaking and Sensegiving ( 2018 )
I Stigliani, KD Elsbach
Journal of Management Studies 55 (8), 1323-1355 - History, material memory and the temporality of identity construction ( 2018 )
D Ravasi, VP Rindova, I Stigliani
Academy of Management Journal - Design thinking and organizational culture: A review and framework for future research ( 2018 )
KD Elsbach, I Stigliani
Journal of Management 44 (6), 2274-2306 - The shaping of form: Exploring designers’ use of aesthetic knowledge ( 2018 )
I Stigliani, D Ravasi
Organization Studies 39 (5-6), 747-784 - How nascent occupations construct a mandate: The case of service designers’ ethos ( 2017 )
AL Fayard, I Stigliani, BA Bechky
Administrative Science Quarterly 62 (2), 270-303 - Once upon a Time: How Stories Construct Meaning for New Collective Identities ( 2016 )
A Zamparini, I Stigliani, F Lurati
Academy of Management Proceedings 2016 (1), 12265 - Combining qualitative methods to study collective cognition in organizations ( 2016 )
I Stigliani, D Ravasi
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