Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and serve as the Academic Director of the International Management/CEMS MSc program at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
I earned my PhD from Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and spent a semester as a visiting PhD student at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
My research focuses on owner-managed firms, particularly new ventures and family businesses. I study how owners’ preferences, motivations, and experiences shape firm strategies and outcomes.
At RSM, I teach Entrepreneurship and Family Business across a range of programs, including pre-experience courses (BSc and MSc), post-experience education (MBA and GEMBA), and PhD-level seminars.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- criaco@rsm.nl
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Work
- Giuseppe Criaco, Lucia Naldi & Shaker A. Zahra (2022) - Founders’ Prior Shared International Experience, Time to First Foreign Market Entry, and New Venture Performance - Journal of Management, 48 (8), 2349-2381 - doi: 10.1177/01492063211029701 - [link]
- Giuseppe Criaco, J. (Hans) van Oosterhout & Mattias Nordqvist (2021) - Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns - Journal of Business Venturing, 36 (6) - doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106161 - [link]
- Shaker A. Zahra, Giuseppe Criaco, Olga Petricevic & Niron Hashai (2024) - Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business - Journal of International Business Studies, 55 (8), 1048-1056 - doi: 10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4
- Giuseppe Criaco & Lucia Naldi (2024) - A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures - Journal of Business Venturing, 39 (1) - doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106343 - [link]
- Pankaj C. Patel, Giuseppe Criaco & Lucia Naldi (2016) - Geographic Diversification and the Survival of Born-Globals - Journal of Management, 44 (5), 2008-2036 - doi: 10.1177/0149206316635251 - [link]
