Conference & Academy
2025 Scholar's Quest Lecture
In Honor of James G. March
Massimo Warglien
Venice School of Management
Ca' Foscari University
About Massimo Warglien
Massimo Warglien is a researcher with diverse interests, combining computational modeling, fieldwork, and experimental methods. He has been working in the Carnegie tradition on routines, habits and organizational adaptation. A pioneer in artificial intelligence and organization theory, he co-edited one of the first books on the topic decades ago. He has since authored numerous papers using neural networks to model economic and organizational behavior. His fascination with language and interaction has led him to conduct pioneering experimental research on the interactive emergence of language and grammar, as well as to model language and the meeting of minds. In recent years, extensive fieldwork in the rainforests of Northeastern India has inspired his research on interaction and organizing between humans and plants, and how they learn from each other.