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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 executive education, and PhD-level seminars.

Publications

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Academic (14)
  • Hahn, D., Criaco, G., Minola, T., Pittino, D., & Vismara, S. (2025). Embracing duality in academic spin-offs: A systematic review and agenda for future research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 163-186. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12398

  • 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, 50(2), 668-691. 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

IM/CEMS cohort 2023-2024 Year 2

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

International Corporate Finance

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM13CC

Block seminar

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IMBS

Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025, 2023/2024
  • Code: B3MIN1015

Global Strategy

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM01CC

Business Analytics for Intl Managers

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM15CC-1

Management Control

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM12CC

Innovation Management

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM09CC

Global Citizenship Seminar

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-GSC

Global supply chain management

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM03CC

Professional Competencies Programme

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

Master thesis

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-CEMSTHESIS

IM Research clinic

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM-RC

International business project CEMS

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025, 2023/2024
  • Code: BM-IMBP

Climate change

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

Global Leadership

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM02CC

Marketing Strategy in the Age of AI

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM16CC

IM/CEMS cohort 2425

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

Corporate Venturing

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2024/2025
  • Code: BM-IM11CC

Past courses

Entrepreneurship

  • Study year: 2025/2026, 2023/2024
  • Code: BERMASC049

IM/CEMS cohort 2025-2026 Year 1

  • Study year: 2025/2026
  • Code: BM-IMCEMS

Leading Entrepreneurship and Venturing

  • Study year: 2025/2026
  • Code: GEMBA26-M2-GEL

Professional Competencies Programme

  • Study year: 2025/2026
  • Code: BM-IMPCPFALL

Professional Competencies Programme

  • Study year: 2025/2026
  • Code: BM-IMPCPSPRING

WASHINGTON STUDY TRIP 2025

  • Study year: 2025/2026
  • Code: MBA26-IST-WASH

Research Clinic

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

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