Biography
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.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- criaco@rsm.nl
More information
Work
- Giuseppe Criaco, Lucia Naldi & Shaker A. Zahra (2022) - Founders’ Prior Shared International Experience, Time to First Foreign Market Entry, and New Venture Performance - Journal of Management, 48 (8), 2349-2381 - doi: 10.1177/01492063211029701 - [link]
- Giuseppe Criaco, J. (Hans) van Oosterhout & Mattias Nordqvist (2021) - Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns - Journal of Business Venturing, 36 (6) - doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106161 - [link]
- Shaker A. Zahra, Giuseppe Criaco, Olga Petricevic & Niron Hashai (2024) - Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business - Journal of International Business Studies, 55 (8), 1048-1056 - doi: 10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4
- Giuseppe Criaco & Lucia Naldi (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) - doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2023.106343 - [link]
- PC Patel, Giuseppe Criaco & L Naldi (2016) - Geographic Diversification and the Survival of Born-Globals - Journal of Management, 44 (5), 2008-2036 - doi: 10.1177/0149206316635251 - [link]
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- Start date approval
- October 2022
- End date approval
- October 2025
- Place
- 3062 PA
- Description
- Teaching, supervision, and assessment at RSM BV
Professional Competencies Programme
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM-PROFCOMP
IM Research clinic
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM-RC
Global Citizenship Seminar
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM-GSC
International strategy
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM01CC
Global Leadership
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM02CC
Global supply chain management
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM03CC
Innovation Management
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM09CC
Climate change
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM10FE
Management Control
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM12CC
International Corporate Finance
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM13CC
Marketing Strategy in the Age of AI
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM16CC
Business Analytics for Intl Managers
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM15CC-1
IM/CEMS cohort 2023-2024 Year 2
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IMCEMS2324
IM/CEMS cohort 2425
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IMCEMS2425
Entrepreneurship
- Year Level
- bachelor 3, bachelor, bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- B3MIN1015
International business project CEMS
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IMBP
Block seminar
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IMBS
Master thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM-IM-CEMSTHESIS