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Chang, F. Y. M., Webster, C. M., Alam, M. A., & Chirico, F. (2024). Entrepreneurs' network bricolage: Reconfiguring social ties for resource creation. Journal of Business Research, 185, 114931.
Chirico, F., & Kellermanns, F. W. (2024). When does time enhance family firm performance? Examining family generation in control and family control dispersion through a mixed-gamble logic. Long Range Planning, 57, 102272.
Chirico, F., Criaco, G., Baù, M., Naldi, L., Gomez-Mejia, L. R., & Kotlar, J. (2020). To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(2), 339–367.
Chirico, F., Eddleston, K. A., & Patel, P. C. (2025). Does it pay to patent green innovations? Stock market reactions to family and nonfamily firms’ green patents. Journal of Business Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-05942-w
Chirico, F., Hoskisson, R. E., Pathak, S., & Baù, M. (2025). Calm in the storm: Job security and post-merger performance in family versus nonfamily firms. Academy of Management Journal, 68(4), 845–869.
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.
Chirico, F., Naldi, L., Hitt, M. A., Sieger, P., Sirmon, D. G., & Xu, K. (2023). Orchestrating resources with suppliers for product innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 41(4), 735–767.
Chirico, F., Welsh, D. H. B., Ireland, R. D., & Sieger, P. (2021). Family versus non-family firm franchisors: Behavioural and performance differences. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 165–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12567
Cirillo, A., Maggi, B., Sciascia, S., Lazzarotti, V., & Visconti, F. (2021). Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader? Journal of Family Business Strategy, 13(3), 100455.
Cirillo, A., Manzi, M. A., Bauweraerts, J., & Sciascia, S. (2025). Tax Avoidance in Family Business: The Ethical Perspective of CEO Transgenerational Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics.
Criaco, G., & Naldi, L. (2024). A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 39, 106343.
Criaco, G., Naldi, L., & Zahra, S. A. (2022). Founders’ prior shared international experience, time to first foreign market entry, and new venture performance. Journal of Management, 48(8), 2349–2381.
Criaco, G., van Oosterhout, J. H., & Nordqvist, M. (2021). Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(6), 106161
Delle, M. T., & Segaro, L. (2023). Workplace spirituality and entrepreneurial behavior among employees in organizations: The role of psychological ownership. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy.
Eddleston, K. A., Sieger, P., Chirico, F., & Baù, M. (2025). The King Is Dead – Long Live Who? A Family and Firm Embeddedness Perspective on Succession after the CEO‐Owner's Sudden Death. Journal of Management Studies.
Ehlers, A., Rumble, R., Binz-Astrachan, C., & Baù, M. (2024). Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 15(4), 100634 (open access).
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.
Evansluong, Q. V. D., Ramirez-Pasillas, M., Discua Cruz, A., Elo, M., & Vershinina, N. (2023). Migrant entrepreneurship and the roles of family beyond place and space: towards a family resourcefulness across borders perspective. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 17(1), 1-15.
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Fitz-Koch, S., & Nordqvist, M. (2017). The Reciprocal Relationship of Innovation Capabilities and Socioemotional Wealth in a Family Firm. Journal of Small Business Management, 55(4), 547–570.
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.
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Gjergji, R., Vena, L., Campopiano, G., Sciascia, S., & Cortesi, A. (2024). Strategy disclosure and cost of capital: The key role of women directors for family firms. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 15(1), 100570.
Gómez-Mejía, L. R., Chirico, F., Withers, M. C., Martin, G. P., & Wiseman, R. M. (2025). Are Family Owners Willing to Risk “Rocking the Boat”? A Blended Socioemotional Wealth-Implicit Theory Framework. Journal of Management.
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