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Francesco Chirico

Francesco Chirico

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
39
Citations
7365
World Ranking
1745
National Ranking
102

Overview

Francesco Chirico is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research primarily centers on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a specific focus on subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the following main topics of work:

  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • International Business and FDI
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital

Among recent academic papers, Francesco Chirico is connected to these works:

  • Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future, 2021, IRIS - Institutional Research Information System (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli)
  • Leveraging resources for innovation: The role of synchronization, 2021, Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • Best Among the Worst or Worst Among the Best? Socioemotional Wealth and Risk-Performance Returns for Family and Non-family Firms Under Financial Distress, 2022, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda, 2023, Journal of Management Studies
  • Why are some family firms not innovative?: Innovation Barriers and Path Dependence in Family Firms, 2021, Scandinavian Journal of Management

Frequent co-authors of Francesco Chirico include:

  • Massimo Baù
  • Meena Chavan
  • Philipp Sieger
  • Kimberly Eddleston
  • Daniel Pittino

The scientist has published numerous articles in several notable venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management

Best Publications

  • Resource orchestration in family firms: investigating how entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy affect performance

    Francesco Chirico;David G. Sirmon;Salvatore Sciascia;Pietro Mazzola

  • Knowledge Integration and Dynamic Organizational Adaptation in Family Firms

    Francesco Chirico;Carlo Salvato

  • Dynamic capabilities and trans-generational value creation in family firms: The role of organizational culture:

    Francesco Chirico;Mattias Nordqvist

  • Managerial Risk Taking A Multitheoretical Review and Future Research Agenda

    Robert E. Hoskisson;Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;Jinyong D. Zyung;Eni Gambeta

  • Family Firm Heterogeneity and Governance: A Configuration Approach

    Mattias Nordqvist;Mattias Nordqvist;Pramodita Sharma;Pramodita Sharma;Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico

  • A farewell to the business: Championing exit and continuity in entrepreneurial family firms

    Carlo Salvato;Francesco Chirico;Pramodita Sharma

  • Knowledge Accumulation in Family Firms Evidence from Four Case Studies

    Francesco Chirico

  • Generational Involvement in the Top Management Team of Family Firms: Exploring Nonlinear Effects on Entrepreneurial Orientation:

    Salvatore Sciascia;Pietro Mazzola;Francesco Chirico

  • Knowledge internalization and product development in family firms : When relational and affective factors matter

    Francesco Chirico;Carlo Salvato

  • Exit Strategies in Family Firms: How Socioemotional Wealth Drives the Threshold of Performance

    Dawn R. DeTienne;Francesco Chirico

  • Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts:

    Massimo Baù;Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;Daniel Pittino;Mikaela Backman

  • The temporal evolution of proactiveness in family firms: the horizontal S-Curve hypothesis

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Francesco Chirico;Josip Kotlar;Lucia Naldi

  • Psychological ownership, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: The moderating role of governance heterogeneity

    Daniel Pittino;Ascensión Barroso Martínez;Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;Ramón Sanguino Galván

  • Firm Philanthropy in Small- and Medium-Sized Family Firms:The Effects of Family Involvement in Ownership and Management

    Giovanna Campopiano;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis;Francesco Chirico

  • Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future

    Jean-Luc Arregle;Francesco Chirico;Liena Kano;Sumit K. Kundu

  • Resource Orchestration for Innovation: Structuring and Bundling Resources in Growth- and Maturity-Stage Firms

    Christina Matz Carnes;Francesco Chirico;Michael A. Hitt;Dong Wook Huh

  • Franchising and the Family Firm: Creating Unique Sources of Advantage through "Familiness"

    Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;R. Duane Ireland;David G. Sirmon

  • Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship

    Giuseppe Criaco;Philipp Sieger;Karl Wennberg;Karl Wennberg;Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico

  • Is the Family an “Asset” or “Liability” for Firm Performance? The Moderating Role of Environmental Dynamism

    Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;Massimo Bau

  • To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit:

    Francesco Chirico;Francesco Chirico;Luis R. Gómez-Mejia;Karin Hellerstedt;Michael Withers

  • Predictors of Later-Generation Family Members' Commitment to Family Enterprises

    Alexandra Dawson;Pramodita Sharma;Pramodita Sharma;P. Gregory Irving;Joel Marcus;Joel Marcus

  • Running head: Resource Orchestration in Family Firms RESOURCE ORCHESTRATION IN FAMILY FIRMS: INVESTIGATING HOW ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, GENERATIONAL INVOLVEMENT, AND PARTICIPATIVE STRATEGY AFFECT PERFORMANCE

    Francesco Chirico;David Sirmon;Salvatore Sciascia

Frequent Co-Authors

Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont
Mattias Nordqvist
Mattias Nordqvist Stockholm School of Economics
Carlo Salvato
Carlo Salvato Bocconi University
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
David G. Sirmon
David G. Sirmon University of Washington
Michael A. Hitt
Michael A. Hitt Texas A&M University
Robert E. Hoskisson
Robert E. Hoskisson Rice University
Luis R. Gomez-Mejia
Luis R. Gomez-Mejia Arizona State University
R. Duane Ireland
R. Duane Ireland Texas A&M University
Josip Kotlar
Josip Kotlar Polytechnic University of Milan

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