DI PIETRO FRANCESCA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Management (ECON-07/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
MANAGEMENT (13/ECON-07)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264483165
Reception hours

By appointment

Biography

Francesca Di Pietro is Associate Professor in Business Strategy at the University Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Francesca’s research interests revolve around entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; the relationship between culture and language on innovation and entrepreneurial activities. Her research has appeared in major scientific journals – e.g., Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, California Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, as well as with major international publishers – e.g. Routledge.

Research

Research interests:  innovation, regional ecosystem, entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial finance; crowdfunding

Publications

  • Billio, M., Butticè, V., Di Pietro, F., Tenca, F., Vismara, S. (2025). Rising tides, rising funds: Floods and climate mitigation campaigns in equity crowdfunding. FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS, 74(March 2025) [10.1016/j.frl.2025.106747]. Detail

  • Hussain, N., Di Pietro, F., Rosati, P. (2025). Crowdfunding for Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review of the Literature. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 16(3), 920-943 [10.1080/19420676.2023.2236637]. Detail

  • Di Pietro, F., Butticè, V., Tenca, F. (2025). Crowd Professionalism and Top Management Team Replacement. In 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2025 (pp.5051-5060). IEEE Computer Society. Detail

  • Di Pietro, F., Alam, S. (2024). Attraction of Venture Capital Investors Through Crowdfunding. In D. Cumming, B. Hammer (a cura di), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Private Equity (pp. 1-6). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. [10.1007/978-3-030-38738-9_206-1]. Detail

  • Buttice, V., Di Pietro, F., Tenca, F. (2024). Assortative Networks, Strategic Change and Firm Performance. In 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2024. Academy of Management [10.5465/AMPROC.2024.176bp]. Detail

Full list

Research projects

PNRR per la Missione 4, componente 2 Investimento 1.1- Avviso 104/2022 | Language in Entrepreneurial Ventures
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA (MUR)
PRIN 2022 PNRR- Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.1 -Avviso 1409/22 - Finance disintermediation for climate change mitigation (CLIMFIN)
Year: 2022
Call: Bando PRIN 2022
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA

Awards

Awards

  • Best Emerging Scholar Paper Award - - 2nd World Open Innovation Conference, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley, CA Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2022 - 2024
  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, 2020 - 2022
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin - Trinity College Dublin, 2018 - 2025