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Overview

Alessandro Zattoni is affiliated with the Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies in Italy, with research primarily situated within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their scholarly work extensively covers subfields such as Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics focus notably on Corporate Finance and Governance, Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Corporate Insolvency and Governance, Gender Diversity and Inequality, as well as Corporate Taxation and Avoidance.

Zattoni has authored several papers in well-known academic journals, including:

  • Corporate governance and institutions-A review and research agenda, 2020, Corporate Governance An International Review
  • Corporate Governance Research in the Wake of a Systemic Crisis: Lessons and Opportunities from the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, Journal of Management Studies
  • Board diversity's antecedents and consequences: A review and research agenda, 2022, The Leadership Quarterly
  • Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?, 2023, Journal of Management Studies
  • Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors, 2023, Journal of World Business

Alessandro Zattoni's frequent publication venues include Corporate Governance An International Review, Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Management Studies, The Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of World Business.

Coauthorship is a common feature of their research. The most frequent collaborators include Hans van Ees, Amedeo Pugliese, Stergios Leventis, Sara De Masi, and Michele Pinelli. These collaborative relationships contribute to the multidisciplinary and dynamic nature of their research output.

In addition to journal articles, Zattoni has contributed to book literature, with at least one book titled Corporate Governance: How to Design Good Companies, published in 2020 by Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli.

Best Publications

  • Why Adopt Codes of Good Governance? A Comparison of Institutional and Efficiency Perspectives

    Alessandro Zattoni;Francesca Cuomo

  • Boards of Directors’ Contribution to Strategy: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

    Amedeo Pugliese;Pieter-Jan Bezemer;Alessandro Zattoni;Morten Huse

  • Making Boards Effective: An Empirical Examination of Board Task Performance

    Alessandro Minichilli;Alessandro Zattoni;Fabio Zona

  • New perspectives on board research: changing the research agenda

    Morten Huse;Robert Hoskisson;Alessandro Zattoni;Alessandro Zattoni;Riccardo Viganò

  • Beyond the Black Box of Demography: board processes and task effectiveness within Italian firms

    Fabio Zona;Alessandro Zattoni

  • Corporate Governance Codes: A Review and Research Agenda

    Francesca Cuomo;Christine Mallin;Christine Mallin;Alessandro Zattoni

  • Developing corporate governance research through qualitative methods: a review of previous studies

    Terry McNulty;Alessandro Zattoni;Thomas J. Douglas

  • A Contingency Model of Boards of Directors and Firm Innovation: The Moderating Role of Firm Size

    Fabio Zona;Alessandro Zattoni;Alessandro Minichilli

  • Board task performance: An exploration of micro- and macro-level determinants of board effectiveness

    Alessandro Minichilli;Alessandro Zattoni;Alessandro Zattoni;Sabina Nielsen;Morten Huse

  • Does Family Involvement Influence Firm Performance? Exploring the Mediating Effects of Board Processes and Tasks:

    Alessandro Zattoni;Luca Gnan;Morten Huse

  • How Independent, Competent and Incentivized Should Non-executive Directors Be? An Empirical Investigation of Good Governance Codes

    Alessandro Zattoni;Francesca Cuomo

  • Exploring the political side of board involvement in strategy: A study of mixed-ownership institutions

    Davide Ravasi;Alessandro Zattoni

  • Integrating agency and resource dependence theory: Firm profitability, industry regulation, and board task performance

    Amedeo Pugliese;Alessandro Minichilli;Alessandro Zattoni

  • The Performance of Group‐affiliated Firms during Institutional Transition: A Longitudinal Study of Indian Firms

    Alessandro Zattoni;Torben Pedersen;Vikas Kumar

  • Trust, Firm Life Cycle, and Actual Board Behavior: Evidence from "One of the Lads" in the Board of Three Small Firms

    Morten Huse;Alessandro Zattoni

  • The Structure of Corporate Groups: the Italian case

    Alessandro Zattoni

  • Who Should Control a Corporation? Toward a Contingency Stakeholder Model for Allocating Ownership Rights.

    Alessandro Zattoni;Alessandro Zattoni

  • The Diffusion of Equity Incentive Plans in Italian Listed Companies: What is the Trigger?

    Alessandro Zattoni;Alessandro Minichilli

  • Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system

    Alessandro Zattoni;Michael A. Witt;William Q. Judge;Till Talaulicar

  • Developing Corporate Governance Theory through Qualitative Research

    Alessandro Zattoni;Thomas Douglas;William Judge

  • How Much Do Country-Level or Firm-Level Variables Matter in Corporate Governance Studies?

    Praveen Kumar;Alessandro Zattoni

  • Corporate Governance Research in the Wake of a Systemic Crisis: Lessons and Opportunities from the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Alessandro Zattoni;Amedeo Pugliese;Amedeo Pugliese

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Minichilli
Alessandro Minichilli Bocconi University
Morten Huse
Morten Huse BI Norwegian Business School
William Q. Judge
William Q. Judge Old Dominion University
Stav Fainshmidt
Stav Fainshmidt Florida International University
Sheila M. Puffer
Sheila M. Puffer Northeastern University
Torben Pedersen
Torben Pedersen Copenhagen Business School
Frans van den Bosch
Frans van den Bosch Erasmus University Rotterdam
Henk W. Volberda
Henk W. Volberda University of Amsterdam
V Kumar
V Kumar Brock University
Robert E. Hoskisson
Robert E. Hoskisson Rice University

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