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Overview

Josip Kotlar is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the areas of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant volume of publications spanning 53 works in this field. Within this broad area, Josip's work delves into subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research themes concentrate largely on Family Business Performance and Succession, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Corporate Finance and Governance, Management and Organizational Studies, Private Equity and Venture Capital, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, and Design Education and Practice.

Josip Kotlar has contributed to a variety of academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Family Business Review
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Journal of Management Studies
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management

Notable recent papers include:

  • "A bibliometric analysis of family firm internationalization research: Current themes, theoretical roots, and ways forward," 2020, International Business Review
  • "Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy," 2021, Journal of Family Business Strategy
  • "Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business," 2021, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Family Firms, Family Boundary Organizations, and the Family-Related Organizational Ecosystem," 2021, Family Business Review
  • "Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession," 2020, Strategic Organization

Josip often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Alfredo De Massis
  • Federico Frattini
  • Luca Manelli
  • Vittoria Magrelli
  • Emanuela Rondi

Best Publications

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

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Josip Kotlar

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

    Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Profitability Goals, Control Goals, and the R&D Investment Decisions of Family and Nonfamily Firms

    Josip Kotlar;Hanqing Fang;Alfredo De Massis;Federico Frattini

  • Collaborative innovation in family firms: Past research, current debates and agenda for future research

    Feranita Feranita;Josip Kotlar;Alfredo De Massis;Alfredo De Massis

  • Dispersion of family ownership and the performance of small-to-medium size private family firms

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

  • 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

  • The pursuit of international opportunities in family firms: Generational differences and the role of knowledge-based resources

    Hanqing Fang;Josip Kotlar;Esra Memili;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman

  • Strategic reference points in family firms

    Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Hanqing Fang;Hanqing Fang;Federico Frattini

  • Organizational goals:Antecedents, formation processes, and implications for firm behavior and performance

    Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;M Wright;M Wright;Federico Frattini

  • Conflicting Selves: Family Owners' Multiple Goals and Self-Control Agency Problems in Private Firms:

    Alfredo Vittorio De Massis;Josip Kotlar;Pietro Mazzola;Tommaso Minola

  • Family Governance at Work: Organizing for New Product Development in Family SMEs

    Alfredo De Massis;Josip Kotlar;Federico Frattini;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman

  • Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms

    Innan Sasaki;Innan Sasaki;Josip Kotlar;Davide Ravasi;Eero Vaara;Eero Vaara

  • A note on family influence and the adoption of discontinuous technologies in family firms

    James J. Chrisman;Hanqing Fang;Josip Kotlar;Alfredo Vittorio De Massis

  • Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in family SMEs: the moderating effects of family, women, and strategic involvement in the board of directors

    Unai Arzubiaga;Txomin Iturralde;Amaia Maseda;Josip Kotlar

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfredo Vittorio De Massis
Alfredo Vittorio De Massis Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Federico Frattini
Federico Frattini Polytechnic University of Milan
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Francesco Chirico
Francesco Chirico Macquarie University
Jess H. Chua
Jess H. Chua University of Calgary
Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont
Esra Memili
Esra Memili University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Mattias Nordqvist
Mattias Nordqvist Stockholm School of Economics
Silvio Vismara
Silvio Vismara University of Bergamo

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