Fabio Fonti earned a Laurea (B.A.) Summa Cum Laude in Economics and Business from the University of Urbino, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Department of Organization Studies at Boston College in 2002.

His research focuses on organizational networks. Specifically, he is interested in how network embeddedness impacts a wide array of organizational outcomes (at the individual, team or organizational level) and in how networks evolve (i.e., in understanding how they emerge as well as their endogenous nature). He has developed network surveys in several different contexts and collected primary network data in numerous industries, such as software development, transportation, machinery manufacturing, project-based organizations, and consumer goods. Most recently, he has studied the differential impact of human and social capital on the performance of basketball teams, the elements contributing to the success and demise of communities of practice, both online and within companies, and the structural and attributional determinants of the assignment of categorical labels in processes of classification within an industry.

He is a member of the Academy of Management and EGOS (the European Group for Organizational Studies).

Dr. Fonti has taught organization theory, organizational structure and design and organizational behavior. At Boston College, his teaching interests focus on organizational behavior and organization theory.