Michele PINELLI

Michele Pinelli, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (Business economics and management)
Program Coordinator - Business Administration and Management 
Associate Editor at Technology in Society 
Advisory Board Member at Journal of Industrial and Business Economics

Education

2015 - Ph.D. in business, Dipartimento di management, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia. Supervisor: Prof. Tiziano Vescovi. Co-supervisor: Prof.ssa Chiara Mio.
2008 - Master degree in business administration and management (with honours), Università Luiss Guido Carli, Roma. Supervisor: Francesco De Leo, Ph.D.
2006 - Bachelor's degree in business administration (with honours), Università Luiss Guido Carli, Roma. Supervisor: Prof. Gian Maria Gros-Pietro.

Publications (books)

• Pinelli M., & Pongelli C. (forthcoming). Leading Across Generations: How Succession Drives Family Business Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
  Pinelli M., & Visentin S. (2025). Donne e successione di impresa: Sfide e barriere al passaggio generazionale. McGraw Hill, Milano, Italia. ISBN: 9788838613401

Publications

• Pinelli M., Pistilli L. & Cozzolino A. (2025). Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
• Kalanoski D., Pinelli M., Cappa F., & Bonardi J.P. (2025). The Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions on Rivals’ Performance: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions. Journal of World Business.
• Pinelli M., Debellis F., Pongelli C. & Vallone T. (2025). Top management teams, work experience diversity and the speed of international entrepreneurship. Review of Managerial Science.
• Pinelli, M., Hülsbeck, M., & Kraus, S. (2024). Decomposing socioemotional wealth: the effect of restricted and extended socioemotional priorities on family firms’ internationalization. Review of International Business and Strategy.
• Pinelli, M., Debellis, F., De Massis, A. (2024). Long-term orientation, family-intensive governance arrangements, and firm performance: An institutional economics perspective. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00877-4  
• Pinelli, M., Niemand, T., Picone, P. M., Kraus, S., & De Massis, A. (2023). Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study. Journal of Small Business Management, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2023.2272262
• Pinelli, M., Chirico, F., De Massis, A. and Zattoni, A. (2023), Acquisition Relatedness in Family Firms: Do the Environment and the Institutional Context Matter?. Journal of Management Studies https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12932
• Debellis, F., Pinelli, M., Hülsbeck, M. et al. (2023). Ownership, governance, and internationalization in family firms: a replication and extension. Small Business Economics https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-023-00736-8
• Pinelli M., Cappa F., Peruffo E., Oriani R. (2022) Acquisitions Of Non-Controlling Equity Stakes: Agency Conflicts And Profitability. Strategic Organization. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476127020926672
• Pinelli, M., Lechner, C., Kraus, S., & Liguori, E. (2021). Entrepreneurial value creation: conceptualizing an exchange-based view of entrepreneurship. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 29(2), 261-278.
• S. Franco, F. Cappa and M. Pinelli, (2021). Founder Education and Start-Up Funds Raised. IEEE Engineering Management Review, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 42-48, 1 thirdquarter,Sept., doi: 10.1109/EMR.2021.3077966.
• Pinelli M., Cappa F., Franco S., Peruffo E., Oriani R. (2020) Too much of two good things: the effect of the interplay between advanced and diverse education on start-ups’ expected performance. IEEE Transactions in engineering management. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9106756
• Cappa F., Pinelli M. (2020) Investing in cryptocurrencies: first insights on the determinants of the return on Initial Coin Offerings. Information Technology for Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2020.1801564
• Debellis F., Pinelli M. (2020) Board interlocks in SMEs and the formation of international joint ventures. Piccola Impresa/Small Business. https://doi.org/10.14596/pisb.356
• Cappa F., Pinelli M., Maiolini R., Leone M.I. (2020) “Pledge” me your ears! The role of narratives and narrator experience in explaining crowdfunding success. Small Business Economics, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00334-y
• Cappa F., Oriani R., Pinelli M., De Massis A. (2019) Crowdsourcing and market performance. Research Policy. ISSN: 0048-7333 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2019.103825
• Pinelli M., Einstein M. (2019) Religion science and the secularization hypothesis: a marketing perspective. Journal of Consumer Marketing ISSN: 0736-3761. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-11-2017-2451
• Pinelli M., Cappa F., Franco S., Peruffo E. (2018) Competenze dei fondatori e performance delle start-up: un’analisi empirica. Piccola Impresa. ISSN 0394-7947. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14596/pisb.273
• Pinelli M., Shaltegger S. (2018) Modelli di business per la condivisione dell’auto: fattori di successo e prospettive di sviluppo. In Mella G. e Pentucci P. Mobilità urbana sostenibile: verso un nuovo paradigma. Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina ISBN 978-88-7543-450-2
• Brunetta F., Peruffo E., Pinelli M. (2018). Driver di cambiamento e digital enabler. In Boccardelli P. and Iacovone S. " L'«impresa» di diventare digitale. Come la rivoluzione tecnologica sta influenzando la gestione d'impresa”. Società Editrice Il Mulino. ISBN 8815274049
• Maiolini R., Cappa F., Leone M.I., Pinelli M., Bedi G. (2018). L´influenza del linguaggio in una campagna di finanziamento di crowdfunding. Referred Electronic Conference Proceeding of Sinergie-SIMA 2018 Conference - Transformative business strategies and new patterns for value creation. ISBN 97888943937-2-9. DOI 10.7433/SRECP.EA.2018.53
• Cappa F., Maiolini R., Leone M.I., Pinelli M., Rabbia L. (2018). Il crowdfunding e le variabili predittive di successo: il caso Kickstarter. Referred Electronic Conference Proceeding of Sinergie-SIMA 2018 Conference - Transformative business strategies and new patterns for value creation. ISBN 97888943937-2-9. DOI 10.7433/SRECP.EA.2018.53
• Pinelli M., Maiolini R. (2017). Strategies for Sustainable Development: Organizational Motivations, Stakeholders’ Expectations and Sustainability Agendas. Sustainable Development. Doi:10.1002/sd.1653
• Pinelli M (2013). How the new economics of sustainability will make sustainable development more “Regional”. In Irene Bernhard (ed.) Innovation, High-growth entrepreneurship and regional development. 539-558. University West, Trollhattan, Sweden. ISBN 978-91-977943-7-4

Premi e riconoscimenti

• 2024 Journal of Management Studies – top cited article in 2023 (Acquisition relatedness in Family firms: do the environment and the institutional context matter?)
• 2022 Danny Van Den Bulcke Best EIBA Conference Paper (Formal Versus Informal Institutions and the Competitive Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions. Kalanoski D., Cappa F., Pinelli M., Bonardi J.P.) EIBA 2022, Dec 8th – 10th 2022, Norwegian Business School, Norway. Prize: 1000€
• 2022 Best Paper: Track 2 M&As and Alliances (Formal Versus Informal Institutions and the Competitive Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions. Kalanoski D., Cappa F., Pinelli M., Bonardi J.P.) EIBA 2022, Dec 8th – 10th 2022, Norwegian Business School, Norway.
• 2021 “That´s interesting” best paper nomination (Formal Versus Informal Institutions and the Competitive Impact of International Mergers and Acquisitions. Kalanoski D., Cappa F., Pinelli M., Bonardi J.P.) – AIB 2021 Online Conference
• 2018 Best Strategic Management Paper (Institutional Quality Differences and The Performance Effect Of M&As on Rival firms. Kalanoski D., Cappa F., Pinelli M.) – EURAM Conference
• 2018 Best paper on crowdfunding (The impact of narrative style and entrepreneur’s experience in crowdfunding campaigns. R. Maiolini, F. Cappa, M.I. Leone, M. Pinelli) – 3rd Entrepreneurial Finance Conference
• 2016 Best student paper finalist (Crowdsourcing and stock markets. Francesco Cappa, Raffaele Oriani and Michele Pinelli) - R&D Management Conference 2016