Josip Kotlar

Core Faculty | Full Professor

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Associate Dean for Strategic Projects POLIMI GSOM

Josip Kotlar is Full Professor of the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, with expertise in strategy, innovation, governance and family business. His research on these topics has been published in leading academic journals, receiving more than 6,000 citations, several awards, and frequent features in business press and media. He is Associate Editor of Family Business Review and member of the Editorial Review Boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Journal of Family Business Strategy. He serves as the President of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA). He is Associate Dean for Strategic Projects of the POLIMI Graduate School of Management.

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Josip Kotlar

Josip Kotlar

Academic courses held at SOM Research Relevant Publications Grants, Awards and Honours Service to the Community

Academic course held at SOM

Impianti Industriali E Organizzazione D'Impresa (Parte Di Organizzazione Aziendale)

Impianti Industriali e organizzazione d'impresa (parte di organizzazione aziendale)

Family Business

Strategy & Marketing

Family Business

Strategy & Marketing

Family Business

Strategy & Marketing

Family business

Teaching Areas: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (SM)

MBA/EMBA

Specializing Masters

Executive Education

Specializing masters

Research

Josip Kotlar conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of strategy, innovation, family business and governance. His main research contributions relate to understanding how family business owners and leaders balance financial and non-financial goals in strategic decision-making, and how family owners can drive business transformation and innovation to build long-term success. Current projects address the development of ownership competences in multi-generational enterprising families, the distinctive role of family legacy in value creation and capture processes, and emerging forms of family and family business business governance.

Relevant Publications

Manelli L. Magrelli V. Kotlar J. Messeni Petruzzelli A. & Frattini F. , "Building an Outward-Oriented Social Family Legacy: Rhetorical History in Family Business Foundations. ", Family Business Review

Mazzelli A. Miller D. Breton-Miller L. De Massis A. & Kotlar J., "Outcome-based imitation in family firms’ international market entry decisions.", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Ge B. De Massis A. & Kotlar J. , "Mining the past: History scripting strategies and competitive advantage in a family business.", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46, 223-251

Magrelli V. Rondi E. De Massis A. & Kotlar J. , "Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession. ", Strategic Organization, 20, 164-199

De Massis A. Kotlar J. & Manelli L. , "Family firms, family boundary organizations, and the family-related organizational ecosystem. ", Family Business Review, 34, 350-364

Scholes L.| Hughes M.| Wright M.| De Massis A.| Kotlar J. (2021), "Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy", Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12

Raitis J.| Sasaki I.| Kotlar J. (2021), "System-Spanning Values Work and Entrepreneurial Growth in Family Firms", Journal of Management Studies, 58, 104-134

Binz Astrachan C.| Astrachan J.H.| Kotlar J.| Michiels A. (2021), "Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements", Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12

Raitis J. Sasaki I. & Kotlar J., "System‐spanning values work and entrepreneurial growth in family firms", Journal of Management Studies, 58, 104-134

Astrachan C. B. Astrachan J. H. Kotlar J. & Michiels A. , "Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements.", Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12

Chirico F. Criaco G. Baù M. Naldi L. Gomez-Mejia L. R. Kotlar J., "To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms. ", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44, 339-367

Sasaki I. Kotlar J. Ravasi D. & Vaara E., "Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms", Strategic Management Journal, 41, 590-623

Kotlar J. De Massis A. Frattini F. Kammerlander N., "Motivation Gaps and Implementation Traps: The Paradoxical and Time-Varying Effects of Family Ownership on Firm Absorptive Capacity", Journal of Product Innovation Management, 37, 2-25

Sasaki I. Kotlar J. Ravasi D. Vaara E. , "Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms", Strategic Management Journal, 41, 590-623

Casprini E. Dabic M. Kotlar J. Pucci T. , "A bibliometric analysis of family firm internationalization research: Current themes, theoretical roots, and ways forward", International Business Review

Chirico F. Criaco G. Baù M. Naldi L. Gomez-Mejia L.R. Kotlar J. , "To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 44, 339-367

Magrelli V. Rondi E. De Massis A. Kotlar J. , "Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession", Strategic Organization

Mazzelli A. Nason R. De Massis A. Kotlar J., "Causality rules: Performance feedback on hierarchically related goals and capital investment variability.", Journal of Management Studies, 56, 1630-1654

Kotlar J. Sieger P. , "Bounded rationality and bounded reliability: A study of non-family managers’ entrepreneurial behavior in family firms", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42, 251-273

Rondi E. De Massis A. Kotlar J., "Unlocking innovation potential: A typology of family business innovation postures and the critical role of the family system", Journal of Family Business Strategy, 10

Kotlar J. Chrisman J.J., "Point: How Family Involvement Influences Organizational Change", Journal of Change Management, 19, 26-36

Arzubiaga U. Kotlar J. De Massis A. Maseda A. & Iturralde T. , "Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation in family SMEs: Unveiling the (actual) impact of the Board of Directors.", Journal of Business Venturing, 33, 455-469

Kotlar J. Signori A. De Massis A. Vismara S. , "Financial wealth, socioemotional wealth, and IPO underpricing in family firms: A two-stage gamble model.", Academy of Management Journal, 61, 1073-1099

Mazzelli A. Kotlar J. De Massis A. , "Blending in while standing out: Selective conformity and new product introductions in family firms.", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42, 206-230

De Massis A. Kotlar J. Mazzola P. Minola T.|Sciascia S., "Conflicting selves: Family owners’ multiple goals and self-control agency problems in private firms", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 42, 362-389

Kotlar J. De Massis A. Wright M. Frattini F., "Organizational Goals: Antecedents, Formation Processes and Implications for Firm Behavior and Performance", International Journal of Management Reviews, 20

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