Luca Gnan

Luca Gnan is a Full Professor of Organizational Behavior at Tor Vergata University, where also he is the Director of the Bachelor in Business Administration and Economics. He is the past-president of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He is a Member of the Central Evaluation Committee of the Tor Vergata University and Board member of the Tor Vergata World University. Luca Gnan is Editor in chief of the International Journal of transition and Innovation, and he has been and is guest editor of multiple journals. He has published on topics related to family business governance, corporate and public management. He investigated family firms’ corporate governance issues, with a special interest on the board of directors, governance structures, and mechanisms. Recently, he started to investigate family firms’ HR/Organizational issues, with a particular interest in HRM Practices. Other research interests are fostering the entrepreneurial orientation in organizations, the strategy formulation processes, and the role of models in decisional processes.

Publications

Designing and Implementing HR Management Systems in Family Businesses
Luca Gnan, Giulia Flamini. © 2021. 368 pages.
Human resource management (HRM) systems are an under-researched area in family business studies even though they arguably play an important role. To exploit their entrepreneurial...
Handbook of Research on the Strategic Management of Family Businesses
Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz, Ismael Barros-Contreras, Luca Gnan. © 2020. 539 pages.
The literature on family business has developed significantly over the last years. However, efforts remain to summarize and systematize the main aspects that affect the behavior...