Alfredo De Massis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3477040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfredo De Massis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfredo |
| FAMILY NAME | De Massis |
| SIGNATURE | DE MASSIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5552-6497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
CEO's temporal focus and business model innovation in family firms under environmental dynamism
Business model innovation (BMI) is critical for firms’ long-term survival under environmental dynamism and depends heavily on CEOs’ cognition. While Socioemotional Wealth (SEW) explains why family CEOs may resist or engage in BMI, it largely assumes homogeneous responses under similar environmental conditions. Upper echelons theory (UET), in turn, emphasizes CEOs’ temporal focus (i.e., attention to the past, present, or future) as a key driver of…
Ethical Issues in Family Business: Toward a Deeper Understanding and a New Research Agenda
Family business ethics are uniquely shaped by family influence and a strong emphasis on preserving socioemotional wealth. Although research in this area has grown rapidly in recent years, it remains fragmented and underdeveloped. Advancing the field requires a more integrated approach that consolidates existing concepts and dimensions. This paper synthesizes current knowledge and proposes an integrative framework for studying ethical issues in fa…
Defensive routines as coping mechanisms against technostress: Roles of digital leadership and employee goal orientation
In today's workplace, the proliferation of digital technologies has transformed work tasks but also led to technostress. This stress, associated with technology use, negatively impacts employees' behavioral outcomes and performance. Despite these effects, research on coping strategies for technostress and mitigation methods for individuals and organizations remains limited. This study utilizes the transactional theory of stress and coping to anal…
Linking biases and paradoxes in the family entrepreneurship context: An integrative framework for future research
Biases and paradoxes are inherently context-dependent phenomena, as they are influenced by various contextual factors that can either magnify or diminish their prominence. In the realm of family entrepreneurship, these contextual intricacies are particularly pronounced due to the confluence of family life, family values, and family and business objectives. Nonetheless, the literature on family entrepreneurship has largely neglected exploration of…
Family firms and the governance of global value chains
The current evolution of global value chains (GVCs) calls for moving beyond the “unipolar” view of lead multinational enterprises (MNEs) as sole rulers to examine how their characteristics and those of partner firms affect GVC governance. In response to this call, we focus on family firms, which are the most ubiquitous organizational form worldwide and represent the majority of firms participating in GVCs. Unlike non-family firms, these organizat…
The Covid-19 pandemic and family business performance
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate financial performance using a unique, cross-country, and longitudinal sample of 3350 listed firms worldwide. We find that the financial performance of family firms has been significantly higher than that of nonfamily firms during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for pre-pandemic business conditions. This effect is pertinent to firms with strong family involvement in management …
Long-term orientation, family-intensive governance arrangements, and firm performance: An institutional economics perspective
An exploratory study of stakeholder views on the sustainable development of mountain tourism
Sustainable tourism can combine recreation for people, economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, and environmental protection, but for mountain tourism, climate change and the predicted reductions in snowfall require urgent action. Therefore, this study aims to identify sustainable mountain tourism strategies and consumption patterns using a multi‐criteria decision methodology and data collected through an online survey and expert opinions. The r…
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation
Despite anecdotal evidence showing that some CEOs possess narcissistic personality traits, research on this individual characteristic is still lagging behind. Though the literature has established that narcissistic CEO traits may affect firm performance, it is not clear whether they act as constructive or destructing forces in family firms. This is particularly important given family firms’ attention towards the preservation of socioemotional wea…
Sustainability practices of family and nonfamily firms: A worldwide study
Implementing a Digital Strategy: Learning from the Experience of Three Digital Transformation Projects
The rapid growth of digital technologies and the extraordinary amount of data that devices and applications collect each day are increasingly driving companies to radically transform the business architecture through which they create and appropriate value. However, companies may fail to extract value from digital transformation due to the disconnection between strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Through the analysis of three case s…
The impact of small- and medium-sized family firms on economic growth
An exploratory study of stakeholder views on the sustainable development of mountain tourism
Sustainable tourism can combine recreation for people, economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, and environmental protection, but for mountain tourism, climate change and the predicted reductions in snowfall require urgent action. Therefore, this study aims to identify sustainable mountain tourism strategies and consumption patterns using a multi‐criteria decision methodology and data collected through an online survey and expert opinions. The r…
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation
Despite anecdotal evidence showing that some CEOs possess narcissistic personality traits, research on this individual characteristic is still lagging behind. Though the literature has established that narcissistic CEO traits may affect firm performance, it is not clear whether they act as constructive or destructing forces in family firms. This is particularly important given family firms’ attention towards the preservation of socioemotional wea…
The impact of small- and medium-sized family firms on economic growth
Implementing a Digital Strategy: Learning from the Experience of Three Digital Transformation Projects
The rapid growth of digital technologies and the extraordinary amount of data that devices and applications collect each day are increasingly driving companies to radically transform the business architecture through which they create and appropriate value. However, companies may fail to extract value from digital transformation due to the disconnection between strategy formulation and strategy implementation. Through the analysis of three case s…
Sustainability practices of family and nonfamily firms: A worldwide study
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience
Are narcissistic CEOs good or bad for family firm innovation
Despite anecdotal evidence showing that some CEOs possess narcissistic personality traits, research on this individual characteristic is still lagging behind. Though the literature has established that narcissistic CEO traits may affect firm performance, it is not clear whether they act as constructive or destructing forces in family firms. This is particularly important given family firms’ attention towards the preservation of socioemotional wea…
Family firms and the governance of global value chains
The current evolution of global value chains (GVCs) calls for moving beyond the “unipolar” view of lead multinational enterprises (MNEs) as sole rulers to examine how their characteristics and those of partner firms affect GVC governance. In response to this call, we focus on family firms, which are the most ubiquitous organizational form worldwide and represent the majority of firms participating in GVCs. Unlike non-family firms, these organizat…
The Covid-19 pandemic and family business performance
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on corporate financial performance using a unique, cross-country, and longitudinal sample of 3350 listed firms worldwide. We find that the financial performance of family firms has been significantly higher than that of nonfamily firms during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for pre-pandemic business conditions. This effect is pertinent to firms with strong family involvement in management …
Long-term orientation, family-intensive governance arrangements, and firm performance: An institutional economics perspective
An exploratory study of stakeholder views on the sustainable development of mountain tourism
Sustainable tourism can combine recreation for people, economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, and environmental protection, but for mountain tourism, climate change and the predicted reductions in snowfall require urgent action. Therefore, this study aims to identify sustainable mountain tourism strategies and consumption patterns using a multi‐criteria decision methodology and data collected through an online survey and expert opinions. The r…
Ethical Issues in Family Business: Toward a Deeper Understanding and a New Research Agenda
Family business ethics are uniquely shaped by family influence and a strong emphasis on preserving socioemotional wealth. Although research in this area has grown rapidly in recent years, it remains fragmented and underdeveloped. Advancing the field requires a more integrated approach that consolidates existing concepts and dimensions. This paper synthesizes current knowledge and proposes an integrative framework for studying ethical issues in fa…
Defensive routines as coping mechanisms against technostress: Roles of digital leadership and employee goal orientation
In today's workplace, the proliferation of digital technologies has transformed work tasks but also led to technostress. This stress, associated with technology use, negatively impacts employees' behavioral outcomes and performance. Despite these effects, research on coping strategies for technostress and mitigation methods for individuals and organizations remains limited. This study utilizes the transactional theory of stress and coping to anal…
Linking biases and paradoxes in the family entrepreneurship context: An integrative framework for future research
Biases and paradoxes are inherently context-dependent phenomena, as they are influenced by various contextual factors that can either magnify or diminish their prominence. In the realm of family entrepreneurship, these contextual intricacies are particularly pronounced due to the confluence of family life, family values, and family and business objectives. Nonetheless, the literature on family entrepreneurship has largely neglected exploration of…
CEO's temporal focus and business model innovation in family firms under environmental dynamism
Business model innovation (BMI) is critical for firms’ long-term survival under environmental dynamism and depends heavily on CEOs’ cognition. While Socioemotional Wealth (SEW) explains why family CEOs may resist or engage in BMI, it largely assumes homogeneous responses under similar environmental conditions. Upper echelons theory (UET), in turn, emphasizes CEOs’ temporal focus (i.e., attention to the past, present, or future) as a key driver of…
Business (10 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (10 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Entrepreneurship (5 works) · Family business (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)