Fabio Quarato
Graduated in Administration, Finance and Control (AFC) at Bocconi University. PhD in Management and Technology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Managing Director of the AIDAF-EY Chair in Strategic Management in Family Business in memory of Alberto Falck, Bocconi University. Responsible (together with Prof. Corbetta) of the AUB Observatory (AIDAF-Unicredit-Chamber of Commerce of Milan-Borsa Italiana-Bocconi University). Visiting Scholar at WI-FU - Witten Institute for Family Firms, Witten / Herdecke University, Germany (2015). Fellow of FFI (Family Firm Institute) and AIDEA (Italian Academy of Business Economics). Member of the Associate Editorial Board of SN Business & Economics and of Entreprenership Research Journal (ERJ)
International conferences
D'Angelo, A., Quarato, F., & Cambrea, D.R., Women Ceos and Internationalization of Family-Controlled Firms: the Moderating Role of Ownership And Governance Openess. IFERA Annual Conference (2022), Santander, 22-24 June, 2022.
Zona, F., Quarato, F., Coller, G., & Cambrea, D.R. Resource dependence and stakeholder theories: the resource provision versus balance of conflict roles of outside directors. IFERA Annual Conference (2022), Santander, 22-24 June, 2022.
Amore, M.D., Pelucco, V., & Quarato, F., Family Ownership During the Covid-19 Pandemic. 7th annual International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) conference, Groningen, Netherlands, 8-10 October, 2021.
Quarato, F., Calabrò, A., Pongelli, C., Depperu, D., & Corbetta, G. Family ownership concentration and FDI location choice: a bifurcation bias approach. Annual Conference of Sinergie-SIMA, Palermo, 9-11 June 2021.
Quarato, F., Calabrò, A., Pongelli, C., Depperu, D., & Corbetta, G. Family firms and cultural distance in fdi location choices: the role of internal and External threats. EURAM Annual Conference, online, 16-18 June 2021
Calabrò, A., Quarato, F., Torchia, M.T., & Lohe, F. Family Firms’ acquisition choices. Exploring the boundary conditions of Socio Emotional Wealth. IFERA Annual Conference (2020), Virtual edition.
Quarato, F., Calabrò, A., Pongelli, C., Depperu, D., & Corbetta, G. Nearby or faraway? family firms’ foreign direct investment location choices under internal and external threats. IFERA Annual Conference (2020), Virtual edition.
Quarato, F., Calabrò, A., Pongelli, C., Depperu, D., & Corbetta, G. Nearby or Faraway? Family Firms’ FDI Location Choices under Internal and External Threats. 80th Annual Conference of Academy of Management, Virtual edition, 7-11 August 2020.
Calabrò, A., Quarato, F., & Torchia, M. What Drives Family Firms’ Overseas Acquisitions? A Differentiated Socioemotional Wealth Approach. 80th Annual Conference of Academy of Management, Virtual edition, 7-11 August 2020
Pongelli, C., Calabrò, A., Minichilli, A., Quarato, F., & Corbetta, G., The Impact of Socioemotional Wealth and Vulnerabilities on Family Firms' Subsidiary Ownership Choice. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, 9-13 August 2019.
Cambrea, D.C., Tenuta, P., Quarato, F., & Ponomareva, Y. When is a more powerful leader better? Empirical evidence on CEO duality from family Italian listed. 10th International Research Meeting in Business and Management (IRMBAM), IPAG Business School, Nice, France, 8-10 July 2019.
Pongelli, C., Calabrò, A., Minichilli, A., Quarato, F., & Corbetta, G. Alone or together? The impact of socioemotional wealth and vulnerabilities on family firms’ subsidiary ownership choices. Annual Conference EURAM, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 June 2019.
Lohe, F.W., Quarato, F. & Calabrò, A. Worth taking the risk? Venturing risk in family firms and the role of family CEOs for international acquisistions from the SEW perspective. 2nd IFBRF - International Family Business Research Forum, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, 15-17 September 2016.
Corporate strategy. Government and management of family-owned businesses. Corporate governance: characteristics, functioning and evaluation of the boards of directors.
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective
SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS, 2023Family ownership dispersion and dividend payout in family firms
JOURNAL OF FAMILY BUSINESS STRATEGY, ForthcomingOut of the comfort zone! Family leaders’ subsidiary ownership choices and the role of vulnerabilities
FAMILY BUSINESS REVIEW, 2021Investment decisions of family firms in the three largest euro countries: the role of the financial crisis
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS, 2021What Drives Family Firms’ Overseas Acquisitions? A Differentiated Socioemotional Wealth Approach
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2020Nearby or faraway? Family firms’ FDI location choices under internal and external threats
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNUAL MEETING PROCEEDINGS, 2020The impact of digitalization on the internationalization propensity of Italian family firms
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP & CONTROL, 2020Strategic distinctiveness in family firms: firm institutional heterogeneity and configurational multidimensionality
JOURNAL OF FAMILY BUSINESS STRATEGY, 2018Top management team diversity and firm performance: empirical evidence from the fashion and luxury industry
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP & CONTROL, 2017The long-term horizon of family firms in M&A: the impact on research investments and debt maturity structure
CORPORATE OWNERSHIP & CONTROL, 2017