Alfredo De Massis is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the
International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and at the
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He chairs the Scientific Committee o
FAmily Business Risorse per l'Italiaand is a member of the Scientific Board of the Italian Family Officer Association (AIFO). According to ''Family Capital'', De Massis is among the top 25 star professors of family business in the world. In 2022, he was nominated in the Family Capital's 100 Family Business Influencers list.
De Massis also serves as strategy consultant, executive advisor and coach to family enterprises in a variety of industries. According to his CV, this includes Accenture Strategy, SCS Consulting, and
Borsa Italiana
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(London Stock Exchange Group). In 2017, he shared his experience about succession and family business management with the UK Parliament.
In 2016, several newspapers and TV programmes reported in 2016 that De Massis was the youngest full professor in Italy.
Research
De Massis has been a guest editor of ten special issues on family business- and strategy-related topics in journals like ''
Strategic Management Journal
The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is a professional society for the advancement of strategic management. The society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. ...
'', ''
Journal of Management Studies
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'', ''
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
''Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of entrepreneurship studies. Article topics include, but are not limited to national and international studies of enterprise creation, small busine ...
'', ''
Journal of Product Innovation Management'', ''
Global Strategy Journal
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'', ''
California Management Review'', and ''Long Range Planning''. His research has been featured in various media outlets including ''Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Campden FB, Tharawat Magazine, The Conversation, Il Sole 24 ORE,'' and he is regularly interviewed in TV programmes (e.g.,
“Porta a Porta”,
a TV program hosted by the Italian journalist
Bruno Vespa
Bruno Paolo Vespa (born 27 May 1944) is an Italian television and newspaper journalist.
A former director of the Italian state-owned TV channel Rai Uno's news program TG1, Vespa is the founding host of the program ''Porta a Porta'' (English:"Door ...
, which is broadcast on RAI1, Italy's leading national channel, and has played a central role in the Italian political scene), newspapers and magazines on family business and entrepreneurship issues.
References
External links
Faculty page
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Living people
Academic journal editors
Italian business theorists
Academic staff of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Year of birth missing (living people)