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Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

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Business and Management
Italy
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
77
Citations
22174
World Ranking
195
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Alfredo Vittorio De Massis is affiliated with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy. Their research primarily centers on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, contributing extensively across multiple subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work encompasses a broad range of topics with particular focus on Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and International Business and FDI.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfredo Vittorio De Massis include the following:

  • Implementing a Digital Strategy: Learning from the Experience of Three Digital Transformation Projects (2020), published in California Management Review
  • Absorptive capacity, strategic flexibility, and business model innovation: Empirical evidence from Italian SMEs (2020), published in Journal of Business Research
  • Network Brokerage: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda (2020), published in Journal of Management
  • Thirty years of research in family business journals: Status quo and future directions (2021), published in Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • Family Influence and Digital Business Model Innovation: The Enabling Role of Dynamic Capabilities (2021), published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

The scientist collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors are:

  • Emanuela Rondi (23 co-authored works)
  • Ivan Miroshnychenko (16 co-authored works)
  • Marco Mismetti (14 co-authored works)
  • Josip Kotlar (13 co-authored works)
  • Paola Rovelli (10 co-authored works)

Alfredo Vittorio De Massis has published work in multiple academic venues, contributing the most to:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings (23 publications)
  • Journal of Family Business Strategy (11 publications)
  • Family Business Review (10 publications)
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (9 publications)
  • Journal of Management Studies (7 publications)

Best Publications

  • The case study method in family business research: Guidelines for qualitative scholarship

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Josip Kotlar

  • Factors Preventing Intra-Family Succession

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman

  • Research on Technological Innovation in Family Firms: Present Debates and Future Directions

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Federico Frattini;Ulrich Lichtenthaler

  • Goal Setting in Family Firms: Goal Diversity, Social Interactions, and Collective Commitment to Family‐Centered Goals

    Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

  • The Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation

    James J. Chrisman;Jess H. Chua;Alfredo De Massis;Federico Frattini

  • Innovation Through Tradition: Lessons From Innovative Family Businesses and Directions for Future Research

    Alfredo De Massis;Federico Frattini;Josip Kotlar;Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

  • Product innovation in family versus nonfamily firms:an exploratory analysis

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Federico Frattini;Emanuele Pizzurno;Lucio Cassia

  • Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research

    Andrea Calabrò;Mariangela Vecchiarini;Johanna Gast;Giovanna Campopiano

  • Ability and willingness as sufficiency conditions for family-oriented particularistic behavior: implications for theory and empirical studies

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Josip Kotlar;Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman

  • Innovation with Limited Resources: Management Lessons from the German Mittelstand

    Alfredo De Massis;David Audretsch;Lorraine Uhlaner;Nadine Kammerlander

  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: A Content Analysis in Family and Non-family Firms

    Giovanna Campopiano;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

  • Implementing a Digital Strategy: Learning from the Experience of Three Digital Transformation Projects

    Alessia Correani;Alfredo De Massis;Federico Frattini;Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

  • Family firms in the global economy: Toward a deeper understanding of internationalization determinants, processes, and outcomes

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Federico Frattini;Antonio Majocchi;Lucia Piscitello

  • Financial Wealth, Socioemotional Wealth, and IPO Underpricing in Family Firms: A Two-stage Gamble Model

    Josip Kotlar;Andrea Signori;Alfredo De Massis;Silvio Vismara

  • Technology Acquisition in Family and Nonfamily Firms: A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Manufacturing Firms

    Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Federico Frattini;Mattia Bianchi

  • Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation in family SMEs:Unveiling the (actual) impact of the Board of Directors

    Unai Arzubiaga;Josip Kotlar;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis;Amaia Maseda

  • Unlocking innovation potential:A typology of family business innovation postures and the critical role of the family system

    Emanuela Rondi;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis;Josip Kotlar

  • A Closer Look at Socioemotional Wealth: Its Flows, Stocks, and Prospects for Moving Forward

    Jess H. Chua;James J. Chrisman;Alfredo De Massis

  • Strategic innovation and new product development in family firms : an empirically grounded theoretical framework

    Lucio Cassia;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Emanuele Pizzurno

  • Managing the tradition and innovation paradox in family firms:A family imprinting perspective

    Irmak Erdogan;Emanuela Rondi;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

  • The impact of family involvement on SMEs performance:theory and evidence

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Josip Kotlar;Giovanna Campopiano;Lucio Cassia

  • Absorptive capacity, strategic flexibility, and business model innovation: Empirical evidence from Italian SMEs

    Ivan Miroshnychenko;Andreas Strobl;Kurt Matzler;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis

Frequent Co-Authors

Josip Kotlar
Josip Kotlar Polytechnic University of Milan
Federico Frattini
Federico Frattini Polytechnic University of Milan
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Vittorio Chiesa
Vittorio Chiesa Polytechnic University of Milan
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Jess H. Chua
Jess H. Chua University of Calgary
Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont
Silvio Vismara
Silvio Vismara University of Bergamo
Francesco Chirico
Francesco Chirico Macquarie University
Nadine Kammerlander
Nadine Kammerlander WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management

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