Baù, M., Chirico, F., Pittino, D., Backman, M., & Klaesson, J. (2019). Roots to grow: Family firms and local embeddedness in rural and urban contexts. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(2), 360–385

Baù, M., Karlsson, J., Haag, K., Pittino, D., & Chirico, F. (2024). Employee layoffs in times of crisis: Do family firms differ? Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36(5-6), 722-744 (open access).

Baù, M., Pittino, D., Sieger, P., & Eddleston, K. A. (2020). Careers in family business: New avenues for careers and family business research in the 21st century. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 11, 100379.

Bearzi, M., Pittino, D., Visintin, F., & Battistella, C. (2025). Corporate venturing in family firms: A systematic literature review and future research agenda. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 16, 100685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2025.100685

Caicedo-Leiton, A. L., Garcés-Galdeano, L., Larraza-Kintana, M., & Pittino, D. (2026). Bridging generations: The impact of family collective psychological ownership on succession in family businesses. European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2026.03.006

Cambrea, D. R., Ponomareva, Y., Pittino, D., & Minichilli, A. (2022). Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 13, 100466

Chirico, F., Ireland, R. D., Pittino, D., & Sanchez-Famoso, V. (2022). Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 37, 106194.

Chirico, F., Ireland, R. D., Pittino, D., & Sanchez-Famoso, V. (2024). Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter? Research Policy, 54(1), 105106.

Engström, A., Pittino, D., Mohlin, A., Edh, N., & Johansson, A. (2025). A paradox perspective on early AI adoption: Understanding temporal and relational tensions. Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Flamini, G., Pittino, D., & Visintin, F. (2022). Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 13, 100468.

Lauto, G., Pittino, D., & Visintin, F. (2020). Satisfaction of entrepreneurs: A comparison between founders and family business successors. Journal of Small Business Management, 58(3), 474–510.

Malki, B., Uman, T., & Pittino, D. (2022). The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: A literature review. Small Business Economics, 58, 1337–1365.

Pittino, D., Barroso Martínez, A., Chirico, F., & Sanguino Galván, R. (2018). Psychological ownership, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: The moderating role of governance heterogeneity. Journal of Business Research, 84, 312–326.

Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Baù, M., Villasana, M., Naranjo-Priego, E. E., & Barron, E. (2020). Starting a family business as a career option: The role of the family household in Mexico. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 11, 100338.

Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Henssen, B., & Broekaert, W. (2020). Does increased generational involvement foster business growth? The moderating roles of family involvement in ownership and management. European Management Review, 17(3), 785–801.

Pittino, D., Henssen, B., & Visintin, F. (2025). Antecedents of collective psychological ownership in family firms: A multilevel configurational approach. Journal of Business Research, 198, 115494.

Pittino, D., Visintin, F., & Lauto, G. (2018). Fly away from the nest? A configurational analysis of family embeddedness and individual attributes in the entrepreneurial entry decision by next-generation members. Family Business Review, 31(3), 271–294.

Pittino, D., Visintin, F., Minichilli, A., & Compagno, C. (2021). Family involvement in governance and firm performance in industrial districts: The moderating role of the industry’s technological paradigm. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 33(7–8), 514–531.

Sanchez-Famoso, V., Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Maseda, A., & Iturralde, T. (2019). Social capital and innovation in family firms: The moderating roles of family control and generational involvement. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 35(2), 101043.

Visintin, F., Pittino, D., & Minichilli, A. (2017). Financial performance and non‐family CEO turnover in private family firms under different conditions of ownership and governance. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 25(4), 312–337.