Alfredo De Massis is an Italian management and organization scientist who researches managerial, behavioural and organizational issues in the context of family enterprises. He is Full Professor of Family Business & Entrepreneurship at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) where he is the Director of the Centre for Family Business Management. He is also affiliated with Lancaster University (UK) where he co-directs the Centre for Family Business of Lancaster University Management School. According to Family Capital, De Massis is among the top 25 star professors of family business in the world
De Massis has a wide-ranging research, business engagement and teaching experience in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, and is internationally renowned for his research on family business innovation, which he has been interested in studying since he moved from Italy to UK in 2013. Besides teaching at many universities, De Massis serves as strategy consultant, executive advisor and coach to family enterprises in a variety of industries. According to his CV, this includes Accenture Strategy, SCS Consulting, and Borsa Italiana (London Stock Exchange Group).
De Massis is regularly invited as keynote speaker or speaker at many conferences around the world and to give lectures to professional and academic audiences as well as to policy makers. For instance, he has recently been invited to share his experience about succession and family business management at the UK Parliament.
Several newspapers and TV programmes reported in 2016 that De Massis was the youngest full professor in Italy.
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Research
De Massis' research is theoretically-driven, goal-centred, and process-oriented employing cross-level qualitative and quantitative methods. Bridging the family business, innovation and organizational goals literatures, his research has been published widely in leading academic and professional journals. De Massis has been Guest Editor of ten special issues on family business- and strategy-related topics in journals like Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Global Strategy Journal, California Management Review, International Journal of Management Reviews and Small Business Economics.
Due to its economic and practical relevance, De Massis's interdisciplinary research has been featured in various media outlets including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Il Sole 24 Ore, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), Tharawat magazine, Campden FB, Family Capital, Reuters, Nasdaq, Yahoo Finance, CNBC. He is also author of practitioner publications in outlets such as Family Capital, The European Business Review, Tharawat magazine, Marketing Magazine, and he is regularly interviewed in TV, newspapers and magazines.
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Honors and awards
De Massis is a recipient of several academic honors and awards and received various research grants from public funding bodies and private organizations to fund his studies on family enterprises.
External links
- Faculty page
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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