企业管理系学术讲座系列：2024（5）

时间：2024年4月9日（周二） 14：30-16：00

地点：史带楼802室

题目： The Misfit Hypothesis: Brokerage, Personality Change, and Performance

主讲人：Professor Stefano Tasselli

University of Exeter Business School

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

主持人：陈鸿志副教授

摘要：

Burgeoning research has studied the role of personality in explaining the extent to which people occupy and benefit from the occupation of brokerage roles. Personality has predicted social structure. But no research has considered personality change as a possible outcome of misfit between personality and occupation of a brokerage role. Does personality change over time because people occupy a brokerage role? Does network structure explain individual performance in organizations because it leads to a change in people’s personalities? We answer these questions with data from four empirical studies measuring personality as extraversion, openness to experience, self-monitoring, and personal constructs. We found consistent evidence that people who exhibit a misfit between their baseline personalities and the occupation of brokerage roles are likely to change their personalities over time to accommodate role demands. We also found that personality change mediates the link between brokerage and performance. This multitude of findings – across different personality approaches, measurements of brokerage, and different organizational settings – opens new directions for the ongoing personality and network position research program, and provides novel insights into personality change.

简介：

Stefano Tasselli is a Professor of Management at the University of Exeter Business School, where he is the Director of the Exeter Centre for Social Networks, and is a faculty member at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, where he was the Director of the Erasmus Centre for Innovation and of the Master in Management of Innovation. He is the President of the Social Networks Society. He received his PhD from the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. He specialized his education with an executive program at the Harvard Business School. His previous professional experience includes consulting in McKinsey and Company. He has research and teaching experience, among the other institutions, at the University of Cambridge, Bocconi University, University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, and at the Rennes School of Business. His research and teaching focus is on the interplay between psychological and relational antecedents of organizational functioning, including the analysis of the micro-foundations of organizational social networks; social networks, leadership and innovation; and organizational theory.

Professor Tasselli received distinguished recognitions. He was Knighted by the President of Italy for his professional and scientific contributions. He was selected by Poets and Quants as one of the '40 World's Best Business Professors under 40' and by ASFOR as the 'Best Italian Business Professor under 40.' He has been named by RSM News as 'one of the best business professors in the world.' In 2023, he has been selected by Thinkers50 as one of the World’s Top 30 Business Thinkers to watch. In 2023, he also received the ‘Outstanding Leadership Award’ by the Social Networks Society at the Academy of Management Meeting in Boston.