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Antonio Strati
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Formazione |
Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, he received his education (secondary school) in Florence. He holds a BA in Sociology (University of Trento, 1974) and in Humanities (University of Florence, 1976). He specialized in Action Research in Organization Studies at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (London, 1982). |
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Carriera accademica ed attività didattica |
Senior professor of sociology of organization (retired) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, Italy, he has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Sociology, president of Master Degree in Work, Organization and Information Systems, and coordinator of the teaching program on qualitative methods in social research of the Doctoral School in Sociology and social research of Trento. He has been chercheur associé (2012-2023) of the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (i3-CRG), École Polytechnique, CNRS, IP, Paris. His academic work focuses on organizational symbolism and the aesthetic approach to studying organizational life, while his artistic research focuses on conceptual photography. He is the author of Organization and Aesthetics (Sage, 1999)—which also appeared in French (PUL, 2004), Portuguese (FGV, 2007) and Italian (Mondadori, 2008). He is also the author of the book Theory and Method in Organization Studies (Sage, 2000), published in Italian (NIS, 1996; Carocci, 2004), and of several essays in international journals. He is co-author (with Silvia Gherardi) of Learning and Knowing in Practice-Based Studies (Elgar, 2012). His most recent books are Organizational Theory and Aesthetic Philosophies (Routledge, 2019), and the photographic book Riviera Mediterranea (emuse, 2024). He lectured
His artistic research in conceptual photography, Photopoesia, has been published in books and photographic journals, and his “photopoems” are collected by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Cinisello Balsamo - Milano), the Polaroid Collections (Cambridge, Mass., USA) and the WestLicht-Schauplatz für Fotografie (Wien), and other collections. |
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Interessi di ricerca |
His main research interests focus on:
(see also: http://web.unitn.it/en/rucola) |
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Attività di ricerca |
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Appartenenza a società e comitati scientifici |
He is a founder-member of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics (www.unitn.it/rucola) of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, and the international network of academics and practitioners Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS). He sits on the Editorial Board of the international journals: Culture and Organization (co-founder member); Organizações & Sociedade; Organization; Organization Studies; Organizational Aesthetics; Qualitative Sociology Review; Revista Interdisciplinar de Gestão Social; Sociology Compass - Work & Organization. Previously, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Aesthesis. International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life; Dragon, the Journal of SCOS (co-founder member); Management Learning; Serbian Journal of Management. Member of ELO (Sezione Economia, Lavoro e Organizzazione), of the AIS (Associazione Italiana di Sociologia), in Italy, he also was member of the Visiting International Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and of the Scientific Committee of the Research Chair on Création et Créativité / Creation and Creativity (Advancia-Negocia et la Cité du Design), Paris. He co-organized SCOS international conferences and workshops, and he co-organized as well EGOS (European Group for Organization Studies) subthemes on organizational aesthetics, and on Practice-based-Studies, and EIASM (European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management) international workshops on the aesthetic dimension of organisational life. He also co-organised the international workshops on “Art, Aesthetics & Practice” held at the Management Centre of the University of Essex, UK, and, in 2015, he co-organized the 10th Organization Studies Summer Workshop on “Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship”.
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Premi e riconoscimenti |
The ANVUR Report QVR 2013 qualified the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, as the best one in Italy in Sociology of Organization, Sociology of work, and Sociology of Economics (SPS/09) for 2004-2010. The Special Issue of Human Relations on "Organizing Aesthetics", July 2002, edited together with Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, was prized by Human Relations for the best essay (Patricia Y. Martin's) 2002. “Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life”, Academy of Management Review, 17/3, 1992, is the 1st most cited paper in the Academy of Management Review (1992). "Sensible Knowledge and Practice-based Learning”, Management Learning, 38 (1), 2007, is the 2nd most cited paper in Management Learning, (2007). He was a keynote plenary speaker on:
He was invited as a visiting professor or as a visiting research fellow at:
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Allegati |