Dr Gabriella Cacciotti
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Cognition and emotions in entrepreneurship; fear of failure; entrepreneurial motivation
Teaching in 2018-2019
Management
- IB92E0: Entrepreneurship and Business Venturing
Undergraduate
- IB0090: Advanced Mathematics
- IB2550: Entrepreneurship and New Businesses
- IB0050: Foundations of Business
- IB0080: Individual Project
- IB0100: Intermediate Mathematics
- IB1440: Introduction to Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- IB0070: Problem-Solving in Organisations
- IB0040: Statistics
Applied & Organisational Psychology Research Network, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Email: Gabriella.Cacciotti@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 22168 / Room: 3.219
Biography
Gabriella Cacciotti is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom. She was a post doctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland for two years after completing her doctoral studies at Warwick Business School. Gabriella's research interests focus on the role of cognition and emotions within the entrepreneurial process. She is the recipient of the 2016 NFIB Best Dissertation Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Gabriella has been selected in the 2019 Thinkers50 Radar Group. Her research has been published in Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Cacciotti, G. and Ucbasaran, D. (2018) "Blockholder structures and power mechanisms in family firms", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42, 2, 252-258, 1042258717748653
- Muñoz, P., Cacciotti, G. and Cohen, B. (2018) "The double-edged sword of purpose-driven behavior in sustainable venturing", Journal of Business Venturing, 33, 2, 149-178
- Kibler, E., Wincent, J., Kautonen, T., Cacciotti, G. and Obschonka, M. (2018) "Can prosocial motivation harm entrepreneurs' subjective well-being?", Journal of Business Venturing
- Cacciotti, G., Hayton, J. C., Mitchell, J. R. and Giazitzoglu, A. (2016) "A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship", Journal of Business Venturing, 31, 3, 302-325
- Cacciotti, G. and Hayton, J. C. (2015) "Fear and entrepreneurship : a review and research agenda", International Journal of Management Reviews, 17, 2, 165-190
- Hayton, J. C. and Cacciotti, G. (2013) "Is there an entrepreneurial culture? A review of empirical research", Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Volume 25, Number 9-10, 708-731
