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ANTONIO MASTROGIORGIO

PUBLICATIONS

Articles on peer-reviewed scientific journals:

- - Marchetti J. & Mastrogiorgio A. (2025). Becoming Fake: An Evolutionary Model of Fake News, Mind & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00342-z DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00342-z

- - Mastrogiorgio A., Arcuri M., Cantoni F., Di Nauta P., (2025). Miopia e automatismi nell’organizzazione pubblica. Risorse Umane nella Pubblica Amministrazione, 3/250, 59-64.

- - Mastrogiorgio, A., Di Nauta, P., Palumbo, R. and Leccese, E. (2025). When authority biases the holder: the case of the Costa Concordia disaster, Management Decision, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-06-2024-1258

- - Mastrogiorgio, A. & Palumbo, R. (2025). Superintelligence, heuristics and embodied threats. Mind & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00317-0 DOI: 10.1007/s11299-025-00317-0

- - Mastrogiorgio A., Mastrogiorgio M., Felin T. & Kauffman S., (2024). Quantum cognition in management research: A novel methodological framework with an application to causal ambiguity, European Management Review, 21(4), 939-962. DOI: 10.1111/emre.12688

- - Mastrogiorgio A. (2024). Meta-learning: Bayesian or Quantum?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47:e154. DOI:10.1017/S0140525X24000220

- - Mastrogiorgio M., Mastrogiorgio A. (2024). A pluralistic perspective on the evolution of technological artifacts: the history of the electric guitar. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1). ISSN (online): 2151-6561

- - Gallagher, S. & Mastrogiorgio A. (2024), Economic interactions that are beyond simulation, Journal of Economic Interaction & Coordination, 19:553-577. DOI: 10.1007/s11403-024-00410-6

- - Mastrogiorgio A. & Lattanzi N. (2023). Opaque decision-making in organizations. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 31(5), 1243-1256. DOI: 10.1108/IJOA-12-2022-3523

- - Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). A Quantum Predictive Brain: Complemetarity between top-down predictions and bottom-up evidence, Frontiers in Psychology, 13:869894. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.869894

- - Bossi F., Di Gruttola F., Mastrogiorgio A., D'Arcangelo S., Lattanzi N., Malizia A.P. & Ricciardi E. (2022). Estimating successful internal mobility: A comparison between Structural Equation Models and Machine Learning algorithms, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 5:848015. DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.848015

- - Cristofaro M., Giardino, P. L., Malizia A. & Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Affect and Cognition in Managerial Decision Making: A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroscience Evidence, Frontiers in Psychology, 13:762993. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.762993

- - Malizia A.P., Bassetti T., Menicagli D., Patuelli A., D’Arcangelo S., Lattanzi N., Bossi F., Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Not all sales performance is created equal: personality and interpersonal traits in inbound and outbound marketing activities, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 159: 107-122. DOI: 10.12871/000398292021341

- - Mastrogiorgio A., Felin T., Kauffman S. & Mastrogiorgio M. (2022). More thumbs than rules: Is rationality an exaptation? Frontiers in Psychology, 13:805743. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805743

- - Mastrogiorgio A., Zaninotto F., Maggi F., Ricciardi E., Lattanzi N. & Malizia P. A. (2021). Enhancing Organizational Memory Through Virtual Memoryscapes: Does It Work? Frontiers in Psychology, 12:683870. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.683870

- - Mastrogiorgio A. (2021). Vigor and aspiration levels in neuroeconomics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44, E129. DOI:10.1017/S0140525X21000182

- - Gallagher, S., Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca E. (2019). Economic reasoning and interaction in socially extended market institutions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1856. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01856

- - Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2018). Satisficing as an alternative to optimality and suboptimality in perceptual decision making. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, 28-29. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001358

- - Felin T., Kauffman S., Mastrogiorgio, A., & Mastrogiorgio M. (2016). Factor Markets, Actors and Affordances. Industrial and Corporate Change, (Special Section: Exaptation as Source of Creativity, Innovation, and Diversity), 25(1): 133-147. DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtv049

- - Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2015). Razionalità Incarnata. Sistemi Intelligenti, 27(3), pp. 481-504. DOI: 10.1422/82223

- - Mastrogiorgio, A., (2015). Commentary: Cognitive Reflection Versus Calculation in Decision Making. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:936. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00936

- - Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2014). Numerals as triggers of System 1 and System 2 in the ‘bat and ball’ problem. Mind & Society (Special Issue: Bounded Rationality updated), 13: 135-148. DOI: 10.1007/s11299-014-0138-8

- - Barberio V., Mastrogiorgio, A., & Lomi, A. (2011). Individuals’ use of e-mail communication genres in open source software community building. Human Technology, 7(1): 30-48. DOI: 10.17011/ht/urn.201152310898

Books:

- Mastrogiorgio A. & Di Nauta P. (2024). Il Comportamento Esplorativo nell’Organizzazione, Minerva Editore. In Collana STUDI MOA (foreword of Marcello Martinez). ISBN: 978-88- 98-85448-6

- Carena, A., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2012). La trappola del Comandante. Rizzoli-Etas (foreward of Massimo Egidi). ISBN: 978-88-17-05889-6

Chapters on books:

- Mastrogiorgio, A., Di Nauta, P., Martinez, M. (2025). Algorithmic transparency and algorithmic accountability in organizations. In: Tursunbayeva, A., Virili, F., & Braccini A.M., (eds), Technology-Driven Transformation – The Future of Work and Organizations. Springer: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., Petracca, E., & Palumbo, R., (2021). Extended cognition and the innovation process. In Cattani, G. & Mastrogiorgio, M. (eds), New developments in evolutionary innovation: Novelty creation in an unpredictable economy. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198837091

- Malizia, A. & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2021). The Cognitive-Emotional interactions in the brain: an organizational neuroscience perspective. In Cristofaro M. (ed), Emotion, Cognition and Their Marvellous Interplay in Managerial Decision Making, Cambridge Scholars. ISBN: 1-5275-6720-6

- Gallese, V., Mastrogiorgio, A., Petracca, E., & Viale, R., (2021). Embodied Bounded Rationality. In Viale R. (ed), Handbook on Bounded Rationality. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138999381

- Mastrogiorgio, A. & Mastrogiorgio M., (2020). The role of affordance landscapes in exaptive innovations. In La Porta C., Zapperi S., Pilotti L. (eds), Understanding innovation through expatation, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-030-45784-6

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2016). Embodying Rationality. In Magnani L. & Casadio C. (eds), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38983-7

- Biggiero, L., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2016). A methodology to measure the hierarchical degree of formal organizations. In Biggiero L. (ed), Relational Methodologies and Epistemology in Economics and Management Sciences. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9770-6.ch007

Conferences talks:

- Cantoni, F., Di Nauta, P., Mastrogiorgio, A & Arcuri, M. (2025). Ricalibrare le Competenze nei Progetti di Ingegneria: il Ruolo delle Soft Skills Orientate alla Sostenibilità. 5th Project Management Forum Lugano, 13-14 October 2025.

- Mastrogiorgio A. (2025). Human rationality as an evolutionary byproduct. 4E Economics International Workshop. Università Roma Tre, 9-10 June 2025.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., Di Nauta, P., Cantoni, F., & Arcuri, M. (2025). Blockchain technology in HR management: reflections on its promises and perils. WOA2025 - XXVI Workshop dei Docenti e Ricercatori di Organizzazione Aziendale. University of Chieti- Pescara, 29-30 May 2025.

- Cantoni, F., Di Nauta, P., Mastrogiorgio A., & Arcuri, M. (2025). Soft Skills, Hard Truths: the role of Sustainability-related Skills for Engineering-Project Managers. WOA2025 - XXVI Workshop dei Docenti e Ricercatori di Organizzazione Aziendale. University of Chieti- Pescara, 29-30 May 2025.

- Marchetti J., & Mastrogiorgio A. (2025). Becoming Fake: an Evolutionary Model of Fake News. Fourth Annual Workshop. Behavioral tools and artificial intelligence to combat misinformation. CISEPS, University of Milano-Bicocca, 1th April 2025.

- Mastrogiorgio A., Di Nauta P., Martinez M. (2024). Algorithmic transparency and algorithmic accountability in organizations. itAIS2024, The XXI Conference of the Italian Chapter of Association for Information Systems, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Piacenza, 11-12 October 2024.

- Cattani G., Mastrogiorgio M., Mastrogiorgio A. (2024). A pluralistic perspective on the evolution of technological artifacts: the history of the electric guitar. Druid 2024 Conference, 11-13 June 2024, Nice, France.

- Mastrogiorgio A., & Ooms F. (2023). Intrinsic brain activity in organizations. Academy of Management, Conference in Organisational Neuroscience, Rotterdam Business School 16-17 June 2023.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Lattanzi, N. (2022). Phasic and tonic alertness in opportunity recognition. EURAM 2022 Conference. ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022.

- Menicagli, D., & Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Rethinking affordances as embodied nudging. XII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE SIE 2022. 2-3-4 Maggio 2022, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

- Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Opaqueness as a mark of minimal intelligence, ZI Conference, Yale School of Management, Yale University, 22-24 October 2020.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., Gallagher S. & Petracca E., (2019). Economic reasoning and interaction in socially extended market institutions. From brain to behavior: neuroscience and the social sciences, AISC midterm conference 2019. IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Wednesday, May 22nd- Friday, May 24th.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Palumbo, R., (2018). Insight unwelcome. Second International Conference on Exaptation and Inverse Question-Driven Innovation. Palazzo Feltrinelli, Lake Garda, 26-27-28 April 2018.

- Mastrogiorgio A. (2016). An Ecology of Nudges. Fourth International Workshop of Herbert Simon Society: Behavioral Economics Nudges and Heuristics for Public Policies. Turin, 15 October 2016.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2015). Which embodiment for a theory of rationality? Model-Based Reasoning Conference 2015, Sestri Levante, Italy, 25-27 June 2015.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2013). The embodiment of slow and fast thinking. 1st Conference Herbert Simon Society: Bounded Rationality Updated, New York, 8–10 April 2013.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2012). Rationality beyond Cognitivism: the hypothesis of embodied rationality. Integration Potential of Modern Psychology and Directions of its Development, Zaporizhzhya (Ukraine), 10-12 October 2012.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2012). Setting the ground for a theory of embodied rationality. IAREP Conference 2012, Wroclaw, 5-8 September 2012.

- Mastrogiorgio, A. (2011). The embodied dimension of rationality: a hypothesis. IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference 2011, University of Exeter, 12-16 July 2011.

- Biggiero, L., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2011). Firms’ absorptive capacity and industrial cluster dynamics: an application of Boolean networks. ARS 2011, International Workshop on Social Network Analysis, 23-25 June, Naples, 2011.

- Biggiero, L., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2011). On the nature of exaptation and the complex co-generation of objects and functions. 10th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, Cracow, Poland, 20-25 June 2011.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Carena, A. (2010). Epistemic Framing Effect: A hypothesis. IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference, Cologne, 5-8 September 2010.

- Barberio, V., Mastrogiorgio, A., Lomi, A. (2009). Coordination and discussion in a virtual community of production: a semantic network analysis. X workshop dei Docenti e Ricercatori di Organizzazione Aziendale. Cagliari, 29-30 Aprile 2009.

- Del Gatto, S., & Mastrogiorgio, A. (2006). Stimoli olfattivi e preferenze del consumatore: un’analisi empirica nel settore turistico. International Congress “Marketing Trends”, University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”, 20-21 January 2006.

Conference proceedings:

- Mastrogiorgio, A., Di Nauta, P., Cantoni, F., & Arcuri, M. (2025). Blockchain technology in HR management: reflections on its promises and perils. WOA2025 - XXVI Workshop dei Docenti e Ricercatori di Organizzazione Aziendale. University of Chieti- Pescara, 29-30 May 2025. ISBN: 979-12-210-9700-9

- Cantoni, F., Di Nauta, P., Mastrogiorgio A., & Arcuri, M. (2025). Soft Skills, Hard Truths: the role of Sustainability-related Skills for Engineering-Project Managers. WOA2025 - XXVI Workshop dei Docenti e Ricercatori di Organizzazione Aziendale. University of Chieti- Pescara, 29-30 May 2025. ISBN: 979-12-210-9700-9

- Mastrogiorgio M., Mastrogiorgio A. (2024). A pluralistic perspective on the evolution of technological artifacts: the history of the electric guitar. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1). ISSN (online): 2151-6561

- Mastrogiorgio A., Adamo A., Lattanzi R., Ricciardi E, (2022). Neuroscienze e governo delle aziende. In Atti del Convegno SIDREA 2022, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, 20-21 October 2022, Lucca. ISBN: forthcoming

- Menicagli, D., & Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Rethinking affordances as embodied nudging. In Bellandi T., Frangioni G., Atti del XII CONGRESSO NAZIONALE SIE 2022. 2-3-4 Maggio 2022, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. ISBN: 979-12-210-1456-3

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Lattanzi, N. (2022). Phasic and tonic alertness in opportunity recognition. Proceedings of the EURAM 2022 Conference. ZHAW School of Management and Law, Winterthur, Switzerland, 15-17 June 2022. ISBN 978-2-9602195-4-8

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2012). Rationality beyond Cognitivism: the hypothesis of embodied rationality. In Bondarevskaya I., Tkalych M. (Eds), Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference: Integration Potential of Modern Psychology and Directions of its Development, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, October 2012 (pp. 44-46). ISBN: 978-966-599-388-9

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2012). Setting the ground for a theory of embodied rationality. In Gasiorowska A., Zaleskiewicz T. (Eds), Microcosm of Economic Psychology, Proceedings of IAREP Conference 2012, Wroclaw, 5-8 September 2012 (p. 201). ISBN: 978-83-935288-1-3

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Carena, A. (2010). Epistemic Framing Effect: A hypothesis. In Fetchenhauer D., Pradel J., Hoelzl E. (Eds), A boat trip through economic change, Proceedings of the IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference, Cologne, 2010 (pp. 166-167). ISBN: 978-3-89967-651-8

Papers in scientific repositories:

Marchetti J. & Mastrogiorgio A. (2023). Becoming Fake: An Evolutionary-Behavioral Framework on Fake News (January 27, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4340222 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4340222

Di Gruttola F., Mastrogiorgio A., Orfei M.D., D’Arcangelo S., Lattanzi N., Ricciardi E., Malizia P.A. (2023). Cognitive load dissonance and personality factors: an empirical analysis in organizational settings, bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.05.570254

Selected invited scientific talks:

- Mastrogiorgio A. Does money make us happier? Brain Awareness Week, John Cabot University, 13 March 2024.

- Mastrogiorgio A., (2023). A quantum cognitive framework on causal ambiguity, Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari (6 September 2023).

- Mastrogiorgio A. & Lattanzi N. (2022). Opaque decision-making in organizational settings. Virtual Workshop for the Special Issue on “Beyond Rationality in Organizations’ Choices: Exploring the Dark and the Bright Sides of Non-rational Decision-making” on the International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 3 November 2022.

- Mastrogiorgio, A (2016). A methodology to measure the hierarchical degree of formal organizations. Italian Systems Society (AIRS), Rome, 11 Dec. 2015.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Petracca, E. (2013). Slow and fast thinking: what can Embodied Cognition reveal? Vienna Center for Experimental Economics, University of Vienna, 18 Jan. 2013.

- Mastrogiorgio, A. (2012). Embodied Rationality. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), 13 Dec. 2012.

- Mastrogiorgio, A. (2009). La memoria nell’agire organizzativo. VII Ciclo di Seminari sull’Agire Organizzativo, University of Milan, 2009.

Technical reports:

- Mastrogiorgio A. (2022). Business Game e Neuroscienze Organizzative, In Report: New Frontiers in Gaming, A cura di Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center. ISBN: 978-88-946906-0-6

- Mastrogiorgio A. (ed), (2021). Salute e benessere nell’organizzazione. Innovation Trend Report (Volume 4), Intesa Sanpaolo.

- Orfei M.D. & Mastrogiorgio A. (2021). Lo smart working nella società digitale. Impatto su società e individuo in una prospettiva neuropsicologica e comportamentale. Tecnical Report – Neuroscience Lab of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center

- Di Berardino C., Mastrogiorgio A., Monaco E. & Palumbo R. (2016). Le forme di contagio ﬁnanziario nella Regione Abruzzo. Evidenze empiriche e sviluppo di un modello di analisi. Progetto finanziato da Abruzzo Sviluppo SpA in qualità di ente gestore dell’accordo programma “Abruzzo 2015”, scheda progettuale “AS2 - Sistema anticrisi”.

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Barberio, V. (2007). Cluster Culturali e Sviluppo Locale. In Azioni e politiche delle autonomie locali per la competitività dei sistemi economici e territoriali, Forum delle Autonomie Locali per la Competitività del sistema Paese. Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica, Ministero per le Riforme e le Innovazioni nella Pubblica Amministrazione; Formez; FormAutonomie.

Institutional talks and articles on newspapers:

- Mastrogiorgio A. & Malizia A. (2021). Smart working e transizione ecologica. https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/smart-working-e-transizione-ecologica-cose-e-come-funziona-lopzione-smart/

- Mastrogiorgio, A., & Barberio, V. (2007). Cluster Culturali e Sviluppo Locale. FORUM PA, 2007, Bari.

Scientific divulgation:

- Interview about psychology of decision making on the mass circulation Italian newspaper Oggi in 2013.

- Presentation of the book La trappola del comandante on the mass circulation Italian newspaper Panorama in 2013.

- Public talk —Gli errori della ragione — at the Festival Comportamenti Umani, Lodi. 12 May 2013.

PhD Dissertation:

- Mastrogiorgio A., Dinamiche comportamentali dell'esplorazione. University of Bologna.

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