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I am an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Academic Director of the International Management/CEMS MSc program at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). I hold a PhD from Jönköping International Business School (Sweden) and spent a semester as a visiting PhD student at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

My research focuses on firms with concentrated ownership, such as new ventures and family firms, exploring how founders' preferences, motivations, and experiences shape their strategies and outcomes.

At RSM, I teach courses and modules in Entrepreneurship and Family Business at various levels.

Publications

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  • Minola, T., Hahn, D., Criaco, G., Pittino, D., & Visintin, F. (2025). Are non-economic goals and financial performance friends or foes in hybrid ventures? A duality perspective on academic spin-offs. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1529

  • Criaco, G., Hahn, D., Minola, T., & Pittino, D. (2024). The role of non-economic goals in academic spin-offs. The Journal of Technology Transfer. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-024-10111-8

  • Zahra, S. A., Criaco, G., Petricevic , O., & Hashai , N. (2024). Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business. Journal of International Business Studies, 55(8), 1048-1056. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4

  • Criaco, G., & Naldi, L. (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), Article 106343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106343

  • Criaco, G., Naldi, L., & Zahra, S. A. (2022). Founders’ Prior Shared International Experience, Time to First Foreign Market Entry, and New Venture Performance. Journal of Management, 48(8), 2349-2381. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211029701

  • Criaco, G., van Oosterhout, J., & Nordqvist, M. (2021). Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(6), Article 106161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106161

  • Naldi, L., Criaco, G., & Patel, PC. (2020). Related and unrelated industry variety and the internationalization of start-ups. Research Policy, 49(10), Article 104050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104050

  • Brieger, SA., Bäro, A., Criaco, G., & Terjesen, SA. (2020). Entrepreneurs’ age, institutions, and social value creation goals: A multi-country study. Small Business Economics, 57, 425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00317-z

  • Chirico, F., Criaco, G., Baù, M., Naldi, L., Gomez-Mejia, LR., & Kotlar, J. (2018). To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(2), 339-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718806251

  • Criaco, G., Sieger, P., Wennberg, K., Chirico, F., & Minola, T. (2017). Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a "double-edged sword" for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 49(4), 841-864. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9854-x

  • Patel, PC., Criaco, G., & Naldi, L. (2016). Geographic Diversification and the Survival of Born-Globals. Journal of Management, 44(5), 2008-2036. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316635251

  • Minola, T., Criaco, G., & Obschonka, M. (2016). Age, culture, and self-employment motivation. Small Business Economics, 46(2), 187-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-015-9685-6

  • Criaco, G., Minola, T., Migliorini, P., & Serarols-Tarrés, C. (2014). “To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 39(4), 567-593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-013-9312-0

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Activities

  • Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
    Start date approval: 30 Oct 2022
    End date approval: 29 Oct 2025
    Place: 3062 PA
    Description: Teaching, supervision, and assessment at RSM BV
  • Journal of International Business Studies (Journal)
    Giuseppe Criaco (Member of editorial board)
    01 Jan 2023

    Activity: Editorial work (Academic)

  • Journal of Business Venturing (Journal)
    Giuseppe Criaco (Member of editorial board)
    01 Jan 2023

    Activity: Editorial work (Academic)

Courses

Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024, 2022/2023, 2021/2022
  • Code: B3MIN1015
  • Level: Bachelor, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3

Global Citizenship Seminar

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-GSC

Professional Competencies Programme

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-PROFCOMP
  • Level: Master

IM Research clinic

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-RC
  • Level: Master

International strategy

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM01CC
  • Level: Master

Global Leadership

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM02CC
  • Level: Master

Global Supply Chain and Sustainability Management

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM03CC
  • Level: Master

Innovation Management

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM09CC
  • Level: Master

Climate change strategy roleplay

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM10FE
  • Level: Master

Management Control

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM12CC
  • Level: Master

International Corporate Finance

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM13CC
  • Level: Master

Business Analytics for International Managers

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM15CC-1
  • Level: Master

Marketing Strategy in the Age of AI: Achieving Sustainable Growth

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM16CC
  • Level: Master

International business project CEMS

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2023/2024
  • Code: BM-IMBP
  • Level: Master

Block seminar

  • Study year: 2024/2025, 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021
  • Code: BM-IMBS
  • Level: Master

International Management/CEMS Year 2

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IMCEMS2324
  • Level: Master

IM/CEMS cohort 2024-2025 Year 1

  • Study year: 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IMCEMS2425
  • Level: Master

Past courses

Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2023/2024
  • Code: BERMASC049

Research Clinic

  • Study year: 2023/2024
  • Code: BMRCSE-SM
  • Level: Master

Managing the Family Business

  • Study year: 2022/2023, 2021/2022, 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018, 2016/2017
  • Code: BMME101
  • Level: Master, Master, Master, Master, Master

Business Strategy Skills

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020
  • Code: BMSM07
  • ECTS: 3 Level: Master

Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019
  • Code: BKBMIN015
  • Level: Bachelor, Bachelor 3, Bachelor 3

Opportunity Creation

  • Study year: 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019
  • Code: BMSE01
  • ECTS: 5 Level: ERIM, Exchange, IM/CEMS, Master

Causal Inference

  • Study year: 2019/2020
  • Code: BERMAMC021
  • Level: Master

IM Research clinic

  • Study year: 2019/2020, 2018/2019
  • Code: BM-IMRC
  • Level: Master

Opportunity Creation

  • Study year: 2017/2018, 2016/2017
  • Code: BM01SE
  • ECTS: 6 Level: Master

Strategic Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2017/2018
  • Code: BERMASC027
  • ECTS: 5 Level: Master