LONATI Sirio

People & Organisations

Ph.D. in Economics (specialization in Management)

Sirio started as Assistant Professor in the People & Organisations Department at NEOMA in August 2021. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an undergraduate degree from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy. Sirio is interested in how leaders' behaviors and followers' perceptions are shaped by cultural, historical and developmental processes. He tackles this broad empirical topic, mixing traditional organizational and psychological literature with insights from other disciplines such as evolutionary-informed social sciences, cross-cultural psychology, as well as political and behavioral economics. Sirio is also interested in research methods, with a specific focus on causal analysis, experimental methods and structural equation models. His work has been published in The Leadership Quarterly and in the Journal of Operations Management, and it has been presented at various conferences. Sirio is currently serving as Associate Editor and Method Advisor for The Leadership Quarterly.

Areas of research

Leadership
Implicit leadership theories
Cultural evolution of leadership
Research methods

Recent academic contributions

LONATI, S., "Support for autocratic leadership: Context, culture, and transmission" in Academy of Management, 2021
LONATI, S., "What explains cultural differences in leadership styles? On the agricultural origins of participative and directive leadership", The Leadership Quarterly, April 2020, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 101305
DOI : 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.07.003
LONATI, S., M. RÖNKKÖ, J. ANTONAKIS, "Violation of Distributional Assumptions in Latent Interaction Models", Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 18911, 2020
DOI : 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18911abstract

Article

LONATI, S., "What explains cultural differences in leadership styles? On the agricultural origins of participative and directive leadership", The Leadership Quarterly, April 2020, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 101305
DOI : 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.07.003
LONATI, S., B. F. QUIROGA, C. ZEHNDER, J. ANTONAKIS, "On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations", Journal of Operations Management, November 2018, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 19-40
DOI : 10.1016/j.jom.2018.10.003

Academic conferences

LONATI, S., "Support for autocratic leadership: Context, culture, and transmission" in Academy of Management, 2021
LONATI, S., M. RÖNKKÖ, J. ANTONAKIS, "Violation of Distributional Assumptions in Latent Interaction Models", Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2020, no. 1, pp. 18911, 2020
DOI : 10.5465/AMBPP.2020.18911abstract

Participation at an academic or professional conference

LONATI, S., "The cultural origins of charisma" in Annual Human Behavior & Evolution Society Meeting, 2019, Boston, United States