Curriculum Vitae

Antoine Vernet
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group
Imperial College Business School
South Kensington Campus
SW7 2AZ London
French citizenship
[email protected]
Employment
Nov 2010 - present
Imperial College Business School
Research Associate
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group and
UK∼IRC (Innovation Research Center)
Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
Université Paris-Dauphine
Research Engineer
Sociology Department
Sep 2008 - Sep 2010
Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne
ATER (Research and Teaching fellow)
UFR 12, Travail et Études Sociales, A.E.S. et
Droit social.
Labor and Social Studies, Business
Administration and Law Department
Oct 2005 - Sep 2008
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Moniteur (Teaching assistant)
UFR de Sciences Sociales
Social Science Department
Other Affiliations
Research Associate of the Center for Business Research at the Judge Business School, University of
Cambridge
Education
Sep 2005-Dec 2010: PhD in Sociology, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre – La Défense
Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury (highest honor)
Advisor : Professor François Vatin
Committee: Pierre-Jean Benghozi, Emmanuel Lazega, Catherine Paradeise, Gwenaële Rot
Dissertation: L’ombre et la lumière : sociologie économique de l’activité cinématographique (Shadow
and light: economic sociology of the motion-picture industry).
Visiting experience: Exchange student at San Francisco State University, 2006-2007.
Sep 2005: D.E.A "Sociologie, économie et démocratie" (M. A. with honors, suma cum laude),
Université Paris X – Nanterre, mention très bien
Sep 2004: Maîtrise de sociologie et d’économie (with honors), Université Paris X – Nanterre,
mention bien
June 2003: Licence d’économie et de sociologie (B. A.), Université Paris X – Nanterre.
Publications
Vernet, Antoine, Kilduff, Martin and Salter, Ammon, forthcoming, “The Two-Pipe Problem: Analysing
and Theorizing about 2-Mode Networks”, Research in the Sociology of Organization.
Vernet, Antoine, 2013, « Transformer le script en image : la lumière au cinéma »(Turning the screenplay into images : light in cinema), in Gwenaële Rot and Laure de Verdalle (éds.) Le cinéma. Travail
et organisation (Cinema. Work and organisation).
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Lamberbourg, Adeline ; Rot, Gwenaële ; de Verdalle, Laure ; Vernet, Antoine, 2013, « La constitution
des équipes techniques »(Making the technical team), in Gwenaële Rot and Laure de Verdalle (éds.)
Le cinéma. Travail et organisation (Cinema. Work and organisation).
Remillon, Delphine ; Vernet, Antoine, 2009, « Les mesures de l’employabilité » (Measuring employability), in François Vatin (ed.) Évaluer et Valoriser, Presses Universitaires de Toulouse.
Working Papers
Vernet, Antoine; Salter, Ammon; and Kilduff, Martin, “Brokerage and Small Worlds: Interplay of
Individuals’ Position and Global Network Structure”, being made ready for submission at Academy
of Management Journal.
Opsahl, Tore; Vernet, Antoine; Al-Nuaimi, Tufool; George, Gerard, “Revisiting small-world networks: The world is not small”, being made ready for submission at Physical Review Letters.
Vernet, Antoine, “Micro-processes of matching and network dynamic in a fluid labour-market”, being
made ready for submission at Organization Science.
Vernet, Antoine; Opsahl, Tore, “Getting the job: comparing the effect of past ties and homophily”,
being made ready for submission at Academy of Management Journal.
Projects under development
Vernet, Antoine, “Tied to Perform: The Influence of Latent Ties on Mobilization”, analysis done,
draft under development.
Möser, Christine; Deichmann, Dirk; Vernet, Antoine, “Dining with the Stars: Network Structure
and Sustained Creative Success”, analysis phase.
Vernet, Antoine; Gurguc, Zeynep; Boulu, Béatrice, “Cognitive frames, studying individual’s ability
to focus on relevant information”, design completed, applied for funding to run the experiment.
Book Reviews
L’artiste pluriel. Démultiplier l’activité pour vivre de son art, Marie-Christine Bureau, Marc Perrenoud et Roberta Shapiro (éds). Coll. « Le regard sociologique ». Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
(2009). 193 pp, Sociologie du travail, 52, no 3, pp 417-418, 2010.
Collaborations
Vatin, François (with the collaboration of Antoine Vernet), 2009, « La crise de l’Université française »
(The crisis of the French University), Revue du MAUSS, no 33, 2009.
Invited talk
2013
“Brokering projects and closing with colleagues: Two routes to project success”, ESMT (May 14th).
“Binoculars and Blinders: the Effect of Closure and Brokerage on the Anticipation of trends and
breakthroughs in open innovation communities”, Greenwich University (March 22nd).
“Binoculars and Blinders: the Effect of Closure and Brokerage on the Anticipation of trends and
breakthroughs in open innovation communities”, VU Amsterdam (February 21st).
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“Binoculars and Blinders: the Effect of Closure and Brokerage on the Anticipation of trends and
breakthroughs in open innovation communities”, Grenoble School of Management (January 25th).
2012
“Should you emulate your boss or your peers? Labour-market dynamics in the French Film Industry”, Mitchell Centre, Manchester University (December 5th).
“Collaborations in the movie industry: dynamics of a two-mode network”, Internet Institute, University of Oxford (May 28th).
“Catching the wave: the role of closure in an individual’s ability to anticipate successful projects”,
Departement of Management, University of Bologna (May 15th).
2010
« Les chefs opérateurs et leurs agents » (Cinematographers and their agents), Seminar series on
Economic Sociology organized by Sidonie Naulin and Anne Jourdain, (Paris, June 23rd).
Conference Presentations
2013
“Brokerage and Small Worlds: Interplay of Individuals’ Position and Global Network Structure”
presented at AoM (Orlando, August).
“Information, Control, and Small Worlds: Studying Returns to Individual Network Positions under
Different Global Structures” presented at Druid (Barcelona, June).
“Tied to Perform: The Influence of Latent Ties on Mobilization” presented at Sunbelt (Hamburg,
May).
“Revisiting small-world networks: The world is not small” presented at Sunbelt (Hamburg, May).
“Dining with the Stars: Network Structure and Sustained Creative Success” presented at Sunbelt
(Hamburg, May).
2012
“Tertius Gaudens vs. Tertius Iungens: the Dynamics of Market Changes” presented at AoM (Boston,
August).
“Tertius Gaudens vs. Tertius Iungens: the Dynamics of Market Changes” presented at Druid (Copenhagen, June).
“Collaborations in the movie industry: dynamics of a two-mode network” presented at Sunbelt (Redondo Beach, March).
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2011
“New labor-market intermediary and shifting market morphology” presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting (Las Vegas, August).
“Collaboration among movie technicians” presented at the Sunbelt (St Pete, February).
2009
“Competition redefined: the case of talent agents for cinematographers in the French motion-picture
industry” presented at the Annual Conference of SASE (Paris, July).
« Les agents de chef-opérateurs : médiateurs du marché du travail » (Talent agent for cinematographers : mediators on the labor market), presented at the Congres of the Association Française de
Sociologie (Paris, April).
2008
“From a competitive market to a population of organizations”, presented at the annual meeting of
the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (San Jose, July). “Best graduate student paper
travel award.”
“Identity as a mean for action: a crossing-point for economic sociology and institutional economics”,
presented at the colloquium What is an Organization (Montréal, May).
2007
« Recruter et se faire recruter : le cas des techniciens du cinéma en France et aux États-Unis »
(Hiring and being hired : the case of the motion-picture industry technicians in France and in the
United-States), presented at Doctoriales du GDR CNRS Sociologie et Economie (Nanterre, October)
« Chefs-opérateurs : réseaux, fléxibilité et précarité », prepared for Journées internationales de sociologie du travail (JIST) (Londres, June).
Distinctions and Awards
Allocation de Recherche (2005-2008), Ministry of Scientific Research
Best graduate student paper travel award (2008), SASE
Associations Membership
Academy of Management (since 2012)
International Network for Social Network Analysis (since 2010)
American Sociological Association (2009-2011)
Association Française de Sociologie (French Sociological Association) (2009-2012
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2008-2010)
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Professional Service
Ad hoc reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Research
Methods, Organization Studies, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Long Range
Planning, Swiss National Science Foundation.
Co-organizer (with I. Stigliani) of the External Seminar at Imperial College Business School (20122013).
Co-organizer (with E. Bascavusoglu-Moreau) of the second UK∼IRC Early Career Researcher Workshop, Cambridge (24-25th September 2012).
Co-organizer (with A. ter Wal) of the UK∼IRC Network and Innovation Training Programme,
Imperial College London (21-23rd November 2012 and 11-13th September 2013).
Reviewer for the Academy of Management Meeting (2012, 2013)
Session chair at the Academy of Management Meeting (2013)
Discussant at the DRUID Academy Conference (2012)
Committee member of the economic sociology section of the Association Française de Sociologie
(2009-2012)
Teaching experience (full courses)
Social network analysis (Theory and Method), 3 day workshop for researchers, Imperial College
Business School (2012, 2013), teaching score: 4.1/5 (2012); 4.3/5 (2013)
Sociology I, B.A. AES (Economic and Social Administration), 1st year B.A., Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008-2010)
Sociology II, B.A. AES (Economic and Social Administration), 1st year B.A., Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008-2010)
Sociology II, lectures, B.A. AES (Economic and Social Administration), 1st year B.A., Université
Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010)
Sources and methods, B.A. Sociology, 1st year B.A., Université Paris-Est (2006, 2008)
Classic Authors of Sociology, B.A. Sociology, 1st year B.A., Université Paris-Est (2006)
Labor Sociology, B.A. Sociology, sophomore year, Université Paris-Est (2006, 2008)
Labor Sociology, M.A. Management, first year, Université Paris-Est (2007)
Teaching experience (invited lectures)
Networking for leadership, Strategy and Leadership course, MSc Management, Imperial College
Business School (2013)
Student mentoring in Project Management, MSc Management, Imperial College Business School
(2013)
Languages
French: native
German: basics
English: excellent
Spanish: basics
Computer skills
R, LATEX, basic programming skills (Javascript, Python, SQL, Bash), Pajek, Ucinet, Office.
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