Marco Castellani Curriculum vitae Bio and Affiliation -Date of birth: April 19, 1966 -Nationality: Italian - Honorary Citizen of Davenport (Iowa) and Owensboro (Kentucky) (USA) -Mother tongue: Italian -Other languages: English (understanding: good / speaking: good / writing: good) -Dept. of Economics and Management -University of Brescia - Via San Faustino 74/B - Brescia 25122 -Phone: +39 030 2988872 -Fax: +39 030 2988893 -E-mail: marco.castellani@unibs.it -Dept. URL: http://www.unibs.it/dipartimenti/studi-sociali/personale-del-dipartimento/ricercatori/dott-castellani-marco -Main Web Page: https://sites.google.com/site/marcocastellaniunibs/ -Google Scholar Citations: http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=qwdk4wqaaaajhl=itcstart=20pagesize=20 Current Position -Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology, Dept. of Economics and Management, University of Brescia (National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor) Past Appointments and Positions -Visiting Professor of Sociology of Organizations, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia (AY 2012-2013) -Visiting Professor of Industrial Relations, Dept. Alberico da Rosciate of Law, University of Bergamo (from 2007 to 2010) -Visiting Professor of Sociology, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia (from 2009 to 2012) -Visiting Professor at MISP (Master in International Studies in Philanthropy), Bologna (2005) -Post-Doc Researcher, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (from 2003 to 2005) -Temporary Research Fellow in Economic Sociology, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, AYs) Education -Degree in Economics and Business, Faculty of Econmoics and Business, University of Brescia (1998) -PhD in Economic Sociology, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (2003)
Current Teaching - Territories and local production systems Dept. of Economics and Management, University of Brescia (AYs 2013-2014; 2012-2013; 2011-2012) - Bounded Rationality and Social Action, PhD Programme in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies, University of Milano (AY 2013-2014) Past Teaching - Sociology of Organizations, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brescia (AY 2012-2013) - Territories and local production systems Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia (AY 2012-2013) - Sociology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brescia (from AY 2009-2010) - Bounded Rationality and Cognitive Processes in Decision-Making, PhD Programme in Economic Sociology, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia (from AY 2007-2008 to 2011-2012) - Industrial Relations, Faculty of Law, University of Bergamo (AYs 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010) - Sociology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Brescia, (AYs 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012) - Decision-Making in Organizations, Master in International Studies in Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship, University of Bologna (AY 2003-2004/ 2004-2005) - Negotiation in Organizations, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia (AY 2010-2011) - Negotiation Techniques, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia (AY 2011-2012) Research -My research interest is individual and collective decision-making. In particular, I am doing research on cognitive and procedural mechanisms involved in small groups social interactions. I use empirical and experimental research methodologies and I am both focused on micro interactions (mainly through negotiations) and macro emerging socio-economic phenomena, such as industrial districts, supply chain restructuring practices, and local production systems innovations. Completed Research Projects - 0DISCRIMINATION- Discrimination Norms Enforced and Disrupted by Social Networks: A Research Program Using Simulation and Experiments, host of the IEF Fellowship granted by the European Commission to Karoly Takacs (Corvinus University of Budapest), Grant Agreement Number 236953 (January 2010/August 2011) - SOCRATE-Artificial Societies for Competition and Cooperation: Knowledge Networks, Organisational Reputation and SMEs Clusters. The Creation of a User-Enabling Simulator, granted by Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (coordinator Rosaria Conte, CNR Rome), Member of the Research Unit of the Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia (2005-2008) - CAPRIGHT Project (Resources, rights and capabilities: in search of social foundations for Europe) - Integrated Project n 028549-2, granted by European Commission Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), Member of the Research Unit of Work Package 6 ( Political Perspectives on Deliberative Social Democracy ) with Fondazione Regionale Pietro Seveso (2007-2009)
- AgirE Project (Anticiper pour une gestion innovante des restructurations en Europe), coordinated by Group Alpha and granted by European Commission Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), Member of the Italian Research Unit with Fondazione Regionale Pietro Seveso (2005-2007) - EUROCAP Project (Social Dialogue, Employment and Territories. Towards a European Politics of Capabilities), coordinated by Robert Salais, and granted by European Commission Fifth Framework Programme (FP5), Member of the Italian Research Unit with Fondazione Regionale Pietro Seveso in Work Package 3 ( Territories and Capabilities, (coordinated by Martin Heidenreich, Robert Lindley and Serafino Negrelli) and in Work Package 2 ( From employability to Capability. Firms monographs, coordinated by Christina Garsten and Bénédicte Zimmermann). (2003-2005) - Benchmarking territoriale: strumenti per l analisi della performance e della competitività dei sistemi produttivi locali, granted by Italian Ministry of Universities and Research, Member of the Research Unit of Brescia (coordinated by Sergio Albertini) (2005-2007) - Non-Profit Organisations, Social Capital and Economic Development, granted by CARIPLO Foundation, Milan (coordinator Giancarlo Provasi, Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, Italy) Member of the Research Unit (2002/2003) - Le Fondazioni bresciane: finalità, governance e ricadute sulla comunità, coordinated by Giancarlo Provasi and granted by Fondazione ASM (2005) Membership -American Sociological Association (ASA) -Associazione Italiana di Sociologia Sezione Economia, Lavoro, Organizzazione (AIS-ELO) -Associazione Italiana Scienze Cognitive (AISC) -Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) -Research Group on Experimental and Computational Sociology (GECS) University of Brescia -Scientific Committee of the Osservatorio sul mercato del lavoro e sulle relazioni industriali (OSMER) University of Brescia -Brixia Accessibility Lab University of Brescia -Co-editor of the Journal Psychopathologia (1995) Refereeing Served as referee for submissions to the following journals: RIS (Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation), Sociological Research on Line, Advances in Complex Systems, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Publications Monographs 2013 [co-author Michele Scalvenzi], Analisi socio-demografica tra Franciacorta e Pianura. La rete territoriale Fondazione Cogeme, Fondazione Cogeme Onlus, Rovato (Bs).
2009 La razionalità limitata nelle scienze sociali, Carocci, Roma. Edited books 2014 [with Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti and Flaminio Squazzoni] Proceedings of the European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2006 [with Giancarlo Provasi] Dalla beneficenza alla promozione del bene comune. Le fondazioni bresciane e le nuove sfide social i, Quaderni della Fondazione ASM, Brescia. Papers in Journals 2014 Riflessività e dinamiche socio-cognitive nell evoluzione dei mercati finanziari: proposte interpretative, Sistemi Intelligenti, 26(2), pp. 361-374 alcune 2013 Alfred Schutz and Herbert Simon: Can their Action Theories Work Together?, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 43(4), pp. 383-404. 2012 [co-authors Niccolò Casnici, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni] Cooperazione, fiducia e differenze di genere: un indagine cross-metodologica, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 53(4), pp. 573-600. 2011 [co-author Flaminio Squazzoni] Media e crisi economica: instrumentum diaboli o guardiani del faro?, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 52(4), pp. 547-570. 2010 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni] Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 13(3). 2010 [co-authors Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Marco Novarese] Procedural Rationality and Happiness, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 39(3), pp. 376-383. 2009 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni] Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation, Sociological Research Online,14(5). 2009 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Francesco Laganà, Flaminio Squazzoni] La reputazione come vettore di fiducia nei sistemi socio-economici: alcuni risultati sperimentali, Stato e Mercato, 2, August, pp. 263-293. 2009 Anticipazione strategica e riposizionamento nella filiera distrettuale. Il caso Sabaf, Studi Organizzativi, 2, pp. 150-173. 2009 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni] Reputational cues in repeated trust games, The Journal of Socio-Economics, 38(6), pp. 871-877. 2008 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] Individual behavior and macro social properties. An agent-based model, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 14(2), June, pp. 156-174. 2007 Oltre un modello dualistico della filiera. Riflessioni sul ruolo della governance territoriale nel distretto di Lumezzane, Sociologia del lavoro, 105, pp. 76-86. 2007 Dinamiche dei livelli di aspirazione individuali in un ambito socio-organizzativo simulato, Studi organizzativi, 2, pp. 161-187.
2005 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] Interazioni e adattamento con differenti strutturazioni del contesto, Sistemi Intelligenti, XVII, 1, pp. 59-74 2004 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] La sociologia figurazionale tradotta in un modello ad agenti, Sistemi Intelligenti, XVI, 1, pp. 7-27 2004 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] Micro-Behavioural Attitudes and Macro Technological Adaptation in Industrial Districts. An agent-based Prototype, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2. Book Chapters 2014 [co-authors Károly Takács, Flaminio Squazzoni and Giangiacomo Bravo] Employer networks, priming, and discrimination in hiring: An experiment, in Manzo, G. (ed.), Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks, Wiley, London, pp. 373-396. 2011 Cognitive tools for group decision making. The repertory grid approach revisited, in Yearwood, J., Stranieri, A. (Eds.), Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making; Collaborative Approaches, IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 172-192. 2010 Le strategie di anticipazione di un azienda leader nella filiera distrettuale: il caso Sabaf, in Negrelli, S., Pichierri, A. (eds.), Imprese globali, attori locali. Strategie di anticipazione e governance dei processi di ristrutturazione economica, Franco Angeli, Milano, pp. 84-106. 2010 Il capitale umano nei sistemi produttivi locali, in Pilotti, L. and Fiscato, G. (eds.), Competitività, ecologie e territori. Networks, creatività e capitale sociale nella co-generazione del valore, Scriptaweb, Napoli, pp. 59-73. 2010 [co-authors Caterina Muzzi, Sergio Albertini] Ict, capitale umano e territorio: una proposta metodologica, in Pilotti, L. and Fiscato, G. (eds.), Competitività, ecologie e territori. Networks, creatività e capitale sociale nella co-generazione del valore, Scriptaweb, Napoli, pp. 259-265. 2009 Strategies of Restructuring and Anticipation within Industrial Districts. The Case of Sabaf Group, in Moreau, M.A. (ed.), Building Anticipation of Restructuring in Europe, PIE Peter Lang Publishing, Bruxelles, pp. 391-408. 2006 Le fondazioni nella letteratura internazionale: temi e problemi, in Provasi G. and Castellani M. (eds.), Dalla beneficenza alla promozione del bene comune. Le fondazioni bresciane e le nuove sfide sociali, Quaderni della Fondazione ASM, Brescia, pp. 93-113. 2006 [co-author Giancarlo Provasi] Le fondazioni bresciane: una ricerca empirica, in Provasi G. and Castellani M. (eds.), Dalla beneficenza alla promozione del bene comune. Le fondazioni bresciane e le nuove sfide sociali, Quaderni della Fondazione ASM, Brescia, pp. 11-55. 2006 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] Processi cognitivi e studio delle proprietà emergenti nei modelli ad agenti, in Terna P., Boero R., Morini M. and Sonnessa M. (eds.), Modelli per la complessità - La simulazione ad agenti in economia, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 85-97. 2004 [co-authors Flaminio Squazzoni, Riccardo Boero] Labor Market, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital in Industrial Districts. An Agent-Based Prototype, in Leombruni R. and Richiardi M. (eds.), Industry and Labor Dynamics. The Agent-Based Computational Economics Approach, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, pp. 332-349.
2004 Parchi scientifici e tecnologici: il ruolo del nonprofit tra conoscenza e sviluppo locale, in Provasi G. (ed.), Lo sviluppo locale: una nuova frontiera per il nonprofit, FrancoAngeli, Milano, pp. 165-195. 2004 [co-authors Flaminio Squazzoni, Riccardo Boero] Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the Complexity Effect with Agent-Based Simulation, in Lindemann G., Modt D., Paolucci M. (eds.), Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 48-69. Book Reviews 2009 Review of Jon Elster s Reason and Rationality, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Volume 12, Issue 2 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/reviews/castellani.html Working Papers and Research Report 2010 [co-authors Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni, Marco Castellani, Niccolò Casnici, Riccardo Boero] Put Your Trust on Women and You Won t Be Wrong! Gender Differences In and Outside the Lab, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 02-10. 2009 Il capitale umano nei sistemi produttivi locali, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-09. 2009 [co-author Caterina Muzzi] Ict, capitale umano e territorio: una proposta metodologica, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 06-09. 2009 [co-authors Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Marco Novarese] Procedural Rationality and Happiness, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 03-09 2008 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni] Reputation and judgment effects in repeated trust games, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 01-08. 2008 [co-author Ivana Pais], Leaning against the wind? Trajectories of restructuring processes and a framework proposal, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 04-08. 2008 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Marco Castellani, Francesco Laganà, Flaminio Squazzoni] La reputazione come vettore di fiducia e cooperazione nei sistemi socioeconomici: alcune evidenze sperimentali, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-08. 2007 [co-author Serafino Negrelli], Sabaf SpA (case-study, Ospitaletto BS), AgirE Project. 2006 [co-author Giancarlo Provasi], Le fondazioni bresciane: finalità, governance e ricadute sulla comunità, Brescia 24 February, 2006; Research Report of Le Fondazioni bresciane: finalità, governance e ricadute sulla comunità, granted by Fondazione ASM (coordinator Giancarlo Provasi). 2005 [co-author Serafino Negrelli] Socio-economic identity of Brescia: local capabilities in action, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-05.
2005 [co-authors Serafino Negrelli, Angelo Pichierri, Valentina Pacetti], Firms as conversion factors of local capabilities in the territories of Brescia and Turin, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 06-05. 2004 Forme di regolazione nell attività dei Parchi Scientifici e Tecnologici: prospettive e nuove problematiche, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 03-04. 2004 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni], Simulation of Labour Market, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital in Industrial Districts. First Thoughts, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-04. 2004 Parchi scientifici e tecnologici: il ruolo del nonprofit tra conoscenza e sviluppo locale, Report Fondazione CARIPLO, Research Project Sviluppo locale, capitale sociale e organizzazioni nonprofit [2002-2003]. 2004 [co-author Serafino Negrelli], From the tondino world of production to many economic identities EUROCAP Project report, Work Package 3. 2004 [co-author Serafino Negrelli, Angelo Pichierri, Valentina Pacetti], National Monograph, EUROCAP Project report, Work Package 2. 2003 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni], Figurational Sociology meets Agent- Based Computational Models. Artificial Experiments on HeatBugs Prototype, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 03-03. 2003 I livelli di aspirazione nel procedimento search and satisficing. Uno studio sperimentale di sociologia cognitiva. Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-03. 2002 Forme di razionalità limitata. Approcci socio-cognitivi al decision-making. Working Paper, Dept of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 05-02. 2002 [co-authors Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni] Growing Behavioral Attitudes, Reflexive Typification of Social Contexts and Technological Change in a Computational Industrial District Prototype, Working Paper, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, SOC 06-02. Conferences, Workshops and Meetings 2014 Brescia, The 28th European Conference On Modelling Simulation, May, 27-30 (Local Programme Chair) 2012 Brescia, Festival del Lavoro, June, 2. 2011 Nottigham, Research Symposium at Nottigham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, November, 24. 2009 Gargonza, ICORE09, 18-20 March, The first International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology. 2007 Oporto, Resources, rights and capabilities: in search of social foundations for Europe, Integrated project n 028549-CIT4, September, 19-21, CAPRIGHT Project. 2007 Madrid, Social and Local Actors, Information-Consultation, Processes, Bargaining, April, 19-20, AgirE Project. 2007 Essen, Social Consequences of Restructuring, June, 28,29, AgirE Project.
2006 Brescia, EPOS: Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation - II Edition, University of Brescia, Italy, 5th-6th October (Additional Referee) 2005 Cambridge, Workshop, March, 4-5, EUROCAP Project. 2004 Bamberg, 3rd International Conference European politics of Capabilities : Regional Capabilities in the Knowledge Society. The transformation of eight industrial regions in Europe, Università di Bamberg, April, 23, EUROCAP Project. 2004 Louvain-La Neuve, Eurocap Workshop, Capabilities, Social Sciences and Evaluation of Public Policies, November, 26-27, EUROCAP Project. Paper Presentations 2011 Hybrid experiments in sociology, Research Symposium at Nottigham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, November, 24. Speaker: Marco Castellani. 2009 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Francesco Laganà, Flaminio Squazzoni) Third Party Reputation in Repeated Trust Games, ICORE09 - Gargonza, AR, Italy 18-20 March, The first International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology. Speaker: Marco Castellani. 2009 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni) Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model, ICORE09 - Gargonza, AR, Italy 18-20 March, The first International Conference on Reputation: Theory and Technology. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni. 2008 (co-authors: Viviana Di Giovinazzo, Marco Novarese) Procedural Rationality and Happiness, Workshop on Happiness and capability: measurement, theory and policy, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August, 22. Speaker: Viviana Di Giovinazzo. 2008 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Giangiacomo Bravo, Flaminio Squazzoni) Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model, ESSA 2008, 5th International Conference, September, 5, Brescia. Speaker: Riccardo Boero. 2006 Oltre un modello dualistico della filiera. Riflessioni sul ruolo della governance territoriale nel distretto di Lumezzane, AIS-ELO Workshop, Bologna, University of Bologna, February, 3-4. Speaker: Marco Castellani. 2004 Dinamiche dei livelli di aspirazione: movimenti adattivi e contro-adattivi in un ambito socio economico simulato, 2nd National Workshop of AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive) Lavoro e scienze cognitive: ambiente, tecnologie e attività, Ivrea, March, 19-21. Speaker: Marco Castellani. 2004 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni) Interdipendenza sistemica e interdipendenza cognitiva. Un modello astratto di simulazione ad agenti, 2nd National Workshop of AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive) Lavoro e scienze cognitive: ambiente, tecnologie e attività, Ivrea, March, 19-21. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni. 2003 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni): Division of labor and organizational structure in an industrial district prototype. An agent-based simulation, Wild@Ace, Workshop on Industry and Labor Dynamics. The Agent-based Computational Economics Approach, Torino, October, 3-4. Speaker: Riccardo Boero.
2003 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni): Micro behavioural attitudes and macro technological adaptation in industrial districts. An agent-based simulation of a prototype, 3rd European Meeting of Applied Evolutionary Economics, EMAEE 2003, Department of Economics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, April, 10-12. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni. 2002 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni): La distrettualizzazione delle imprese come processo cognitivo. Simulazione di un sistema distrettuale tramite un prototipo computazionale basato su agenti. 1st National Workshop of AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive Scienze Cognitive ed Economia, Rovereto, September, 20-21. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni. 2002 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni ) Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going beyond the Complexity Effect with an Agent-based Computational Prototype, RASTA 2002, International Workshop on Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems: Theories and Applications, University of Bologna, July, 16. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni. 2002 (co-authors: Riccardo Boero, Flaminio Squazzoni): Growing Behavioral Attitudes, Reflexive Typification of Social Contexts and Technological Change in a Computational Industrial District Prototype (Working Paper, Dept of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, n.6, 2002); 8th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics on Computing in Economics and Finance, Aix-en-Provence, France, June, 27-29. Speaker: Flaminio Squazzoni.