Claudia PONGELLI

Affiliate Researcher at IPAG Business School

Contact

Email : c.pongelli@ipag.fr

Education

2015: LUISS University: Ph.D. Management
2011: LUISS University: MSc. in General Management
2008: LUISS University: BSc. in General Management

Biography
Selected publications

Claudia Pongelli holds a Ph.D. in Management from LUISS University where she has also been a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Business and Management until 2021 and Adjunct Professor in international business until 2024. After two years (2022-2024) as Assistant Professor at European University of Rome, she is currently Associate Professor at Link Campus University (Rome). Her research focuses on international and strategic decision-making in family firms. Her studies have been published, among the others, on Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Small Business Economics.

Pinelli, M., Pongelli, C. (2025) Leading across generations: how succession can drive the family business growth. Palgrave, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-031-95730-7
Calabrò, A., Torchia, M., Gomez-Mejia, L., Pongelli, C., Lohe, F. (2025) What are family firms all about? Advancing the family business field through Socioemotional Wealth Theory, Journal of Management Studies, in press.
Pinelli, M., Debellis, F., Pongelli, C., Vallone, T. (2025) Top management teams, work experience diversity and the speed of international entrepreneurship: an upper echelons perspective. Review of Managerial Science, in press.
Pongelli, C., Majocchi, A., Bauweraerts, J., Caroli, M., Sciascia, S., Verbeke, A. (2023) The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs, Journal of World Business, 58(2), 101412.
Bauweraerts, J., Pongelli, C., Sciascia, S., Minichilli, A., Mazzola, P. (2023) Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?, Journal of Small Business Management, 61(4), 1672-1703.
Pongelli, C. (2022) Family firms into international markets: Research trajectories and empirical insights on entry mode decisions, Palgrave Pivot, Palgrave, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-031-05398-6
Maggi, B., Pongelli, C., Sciascia, S. (2023) Family firms and international equity-based entry modes: a systematic literature review, Multinational Business Review, 31(1), 38-63.
Pongelli, C., Calabrò, A., Minichilli, A., Quarato, F., Corbetta, G. (2021) Out of the comfort zone! Family leaders’ subsidiary ownership choices and the role of vulnerabilities. Family Business Review, 34(4), pp.404-424
Pongelli, C., Valentino, A., Calabrò, A., Caroli, M. (2021) Family-centered goals, geographic focus, and family firms’ internationalization: a study on export performance. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 33(7-8), pp. 580-598.