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Tenured associate professors | Management and Family Business

Paola Rovelli

Paola.Rovelli@unibz.it

+39 0471 013022

BZ E5.10b

Faculty of Economics and Management
Universitätsplatz 1 - piazza Università, 1
39100
Bozen-Bolzano

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Curriculum Vitae

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Short bio

Paola Rovelli is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she is a member of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management cluster and the Competence Centre for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems. She joined the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano as Assistant Professor in 2017, after she got the PhD summa cum laude in Management, Economic and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on the allocation of decision authority at the top of firms’ hierarchy. She carries out research on firms’ management and organizational design, with particular attention towards family firms, CEOs and top management teams, individual characteristics (such as narcissism and gender), and innovation. She published research articles in Journal of Business Research, Journal of Management Studies, European Management Journal, Family Business Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and The Leadership Quarterly, among others. She is a reviewer for leading academic journals such as Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Family Business Review, Journal of Knowledge Management, Small Business Economics, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Knowledge Management and the Journal of Enterprising Communities.

Courses

Change Management

76407B · SECS-P/08 · Bachelor in Informatics and Management of Digital Business · EN

Conducting Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Reviews

29079 · PhD Programme in Management · EN

Family Business Management

25422 · SECS-P/08 · Master in Accounting and Finance · EN

Family Business Management

25564 · SECS-P/08 · Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation · EN

Research Coaching

25567 · Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation · EN

Main Research Areas

Family business
Organizational Design
CEOs and Top Management Teams
Individual Characteristics
Innovation

Selected publications

Rovelli, P., Razen, M., Benedetti, C., Schweiger, N., De Massis, A., & Matzler, K. (2025). Is Cain More Able? A Behavioral Perspective on the Relationship between Family CEO Birth Order and Family Firms’ CSR. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Piva, E., & Rovelli, P. (2024). Applicant Attraction to New Ventures: The Combined Effects of Entrepreneurs’ Physical Attractiveness and Gender. Journal of Small Business Management, 59, 143-161.

Rovelli, P., De Massis, A., & Gomez-Mejia, L. R. (2023). Are Narcissistic CEOs Good or Bad for Family Firm Innovation? Human Relations, 76(5), 776-806.

Bauweraerts, J., Rondi, E., Rovelli, P., De Massis, A., & Sciascia, S. (2022). Are Family Female Directors Catalysts of Innovation in Family Small and Medium Enterprises? Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 16(2), 314-354.

Colombo, M.G., Guerci, M., & Rovelli, P. (2022). The Effects of the Firm Financialization on Human Resource Management: How Financialization Affects the Design of Managerial Jobs. Human Resource Management Journal, 32(3), 647-663.

Magrelli, V., Rovelli, P., Benedetti, C., Überbacher, R., & De Massis, A. (2022). Generations in Family Business: A Multifield Review and Future Research Agenda. Family Business Review, 35(1), 15-44.

Piva, E., & Rovelli, P. (2022). Mind the Gender Gap: The Different Impact of University Education on the Entrepreneurial Entry of Female and Male STEM Graduates. Small Business Economics, 59, 143-161.

De Massis, A., Eddleston, K. A., & Rovelli, P. (2021). Entrepreneurial by Design: How Organizational Design Affects Family and Nonfamily Firms’ Opportunity Exploitation. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 27-62.

Rovelli, P., & Curnis C. (2021). The Perks of Narcissism: When Behaving Like a Star Speeds Up Career Advancement to the CEO Position. The Leadership Quarterly, 32(3), 101489.

Rovelli, P. (2020). “I am Stuck in Meetings”: Understanding the Relation of CEO Time Management with TMT Size and Gender Diversity. European Management Journal, 38(5), 777-790.

Rovelli, P., Rossi-Lamastra, C., Longoni, A., & Cagliano, R. (2020). TMT Organizational Configurations and Opportunity Realization in Established Firms: An Exploratory Analysis. Long Range Planning, 53(3), 101972.