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Enrico Forti

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business
Management Division
Enrico Forti
Areas of Expertise
Leadership & Organizational Behavior, Strategy
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Office: 570 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
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Enrico Forti is an Adjunct Professor at CBS and an Assistant Professor of Strategy and the inaugural Director of Research in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.

His research program lies at the intersection of strategy and organization theory with a specific interest in strategy evolution in entrepreneurial ventures and coordination and performance in contexts characterized by gig and remote work. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Research Policy.

Enrico has taught courses and performed research at leading institutions in the US, UK, EU, and China, including Columbia Business School, the UCL School of Management at University College London, the University of Bologna, and Peking University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of strategy.

Enrico received a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Bologna and was a visiting doctoral student at London Business School. Before joining Seton Hall University, he was the Gabriel Hauge Assistant Professor of Strategy in the O’Malley School of Business at Manhattan College. Previously, he was a Lecturer in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship group at University College London, UCL School of Management and served as a Chazen Visiting Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Business School.

Education
PhD, University of Bologna, 2010
Joined CBS
2020

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Journal Article
Forti, Enrico, Alessandro Piazza, and Joost Rietveld. “CrossFit in the Crosshairs: A Community-Embedded Theory of Firm Responsiveness to Social Issues.”
Administrative Science Quarterly
(August 17, 2025).
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Journal Article
Ching, K. , Enrico Forti, S. Katsampes, and K. Mammous. “Style and Quality: Aesthetic Innovation Strategy under Weak Appropriability.”
Research Policy
vol. 53, no.
3
(April 30, 2024).
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Journal Article
Ching, K., Enrico Forti, and E. Rawley. “Competitive Familiarity: Learning to Coordinate by Competing.”
Organization Science
vol. 35, no.
4
(February 08, 2024).
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Journal Article
Ching, K., Enrico Forti, and E, Rawley. “Extemporaneous Coordination in Specialist Teams: The Familiarity Complementarity.”
Organization Science
vol. 32, no.
1
(December 07, 2020).
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Journal Article
Forti, Enrico, S. Morricone, and F. Munari. “Litigation risks and firms’ innovation dynamics after the IPO.”
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics
vol. 48, (June 20, 2020).
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Journal Article
Forti, Enrico, M. Sobrero, and A. Vezzulli. “Continuity, Change, and New Product Performance: The Role of Stream Concentration.”
Journal of Product Innovation
vol. 37, no.
3
(March 17, 2020).
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Journal Article
Forti, Enrico, F. Munari, and C. Zhang. “Does VC backing affect brand strategy in technology ventures? .”
Strategic Management Society
vol. 14, no.
2
(April 22, 2019).
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Journal Article
Forti, Enrico, C. Franzoni, and M. Sobrero. “Bridges or isolates? Investigating the social networks of academic inventors.”
Research Policy
vol. 42, no.
8
(September 30, 2013).
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