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Department
Département
Organization Studies and Ethics
Teaching areas
Domaine d’enseignement
Organization Studies & Ethics
Communication Culture and languages
Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
Research areas
Domaine de recherche
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Organization Studies
Skills
Organizational Behavior
Culture
Management
Strategy
Biography
Biographie
Stoyan V. Sgourev received a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. His research is interdisciplinary, covering a broad range of topics, including innovation and evaluation practices in the creative industries, creativity dynamics, social networks and economic history. Apart from his scientific activities, he also curates exhibitions and is a published poet.
Diplomas
Doctorate, Social and Human Sciences, Sociology
University of Stanford, Palo Alto
(2004)
Experiences
Professor
EM Normandie
2024 - 2025
Research Fellow
New Bulgarian University
2022 - 2024
Professor
ESSEC, Paris
2006 - 2022
Publications
Published
OPERTI E., SGOUREV S., LAMPRONTI S., (2024). Rivalry as a Contextual Factor of Gender Inequality in Network Returns.
Journal of Management Studies, 62 (4), 1599-1643
SGOUREV S., Aadland E., Formilan G., (2023). Relations in Aesthetic Space: How Color Enables Market Positioning.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 68 (1), 146-185
SGOUREV S., (2021). Materiality as a Basis for Valuation Entrepreneurship: Re-modeling Impressionism.
Organization Science, 32 (5), 1235-1255
LAMPRONTI S., OPERTI E., SGOUREV S., (2020). Hold Your Horses: Temporal Multiplexity and Conflict Moderation in the Palio di Siena (1743–2010).
Organization Science, 31 (1), 85-102
ESTÉVEZ J. L., SALIHOVIĆ D., SGOUREV S., (2025). Did the Inquisition Allow Heresy to Endure? Lessons from the 1335 Trial in Giaveno.
Medievalists.net
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Organization Science review
2025
Administrative Science Quarterly
2025
"Poetics": an interdisciplinary journal of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts
2025
Organization Studies
2022
Administrative Science Quarterly
2022
American Sociological Review
2018
Organization Science
2016
Member of the editorial board of an academic journal
"Poetics"; Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
2025
Dialogues In Sociology
2025
Member of the board of directors of an academic association
Art Gallery of the New Bulgarian University
2021
Bulgarian-European Cultural Dialogues Center
2020
Awards and honors
Academy of Finland research grant, 2023
"Robert Merton" Fellowship, 2020