Italy
I am Full Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Business and I am the Founding Director of the Unibz Centre for Family Business Management. In a recent bibliometric study (Casado-Belmonte et al., in press), I have been ranked as the top most-productive scholar in family business innovation, and in 2015 Family Capital ranked me among the world’s top 25 star professors for family business. I serve as Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Associate Editor of Family Business Review and on the Editorial Boards of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal & Journal of Family Business Strategy. I also serve on the Honorary Advisory Board of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN),the Academic Advisory Board of the Institute for Family Business (IFB) Research Foundation in London, the Board of Supervisors of the Grenke Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies in Berlin, the Academic Advisory Council of the Tsinghua University’s Global Family Business Research Center in China, the Scientific Board of the Italian Association of Family Officers (AIFO). I am the former Chair of the Family Business Research SIG at the European Academy of Management and the former Chairman of the European Leadership Council and Global Board Member of the Global STEP Project for Family Enterprising at Babson College (USA) engaging over 200 leading scholars and 85 enterprising families from 45 countries. I am also an Editor of FamilyBusiness.org, a social media platform funded by the Schulze Family Foundation dedicated to share learning resources with family business practitioners. My research is on family business and my work has been published widely in leading academic and professional journal. I have been Guest Editor of 20 special issues in journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Global Strategy Journal, Family Business Review, California Management Review, and International Journal of Management Reviews. Due to its economic and practical relevance, my research has been featured in various media outlets including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Il Sole 24 Ore, RAI, and I am regularly interviewed in TV, newspapers and magazines. I am a recipient of several academic honors and awards, received various research grants from public funding bodies and private organizations and I am regularly invited as keynote speaker at many conferences around the world and to give lectures to professional and academic audiences.