Fabio Quarato

Department of Management and Technology

Lecturer

AIDAF - EY CHAIR OF FAMILY BUSINESS STRATEGY IN MEMORY OF ALBERTO FALCK

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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. Salvato) 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 European Management Journal & Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management journal

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International conferences

D'Angelo, A., Cambrea, D.R. & Quarato, F., Economizing on Bifurcation Bias: Family CEOs, Governance, and Foreign Direct Investment, STEP Project Global Consortium, Global Family Business Summit, Nice, France, 26-29, May, 2026
Quarato, F., Latella, P. & Salvato, C. Mentoring Arrengements and Leadership Configurations after Generational Transitions in Family Firms. STEP Project Global Consortium, Global Family Business Summit, Nice, France, 26-29, May, 2026
Quarato, F., Latella, P. & Salvato, C. Mentoring Arrengements and Leadership Configurations after Generational Transitions in Family Firms. IFERA Annual Conference (2026), Naples, Italy, 9-12 June 2026
D'Angelo, A., Cambrea, D.R. & Quarato, F., Family CEOs and Foreign Direct Investment: Bifurcation Bias and the Role of Governance Configurations. IFERA Annual Conference (2026), Naples, Italy, 9-12 June 2026
Latella, P. & Quarato, F. Navigating the pandemic: the impact of family ownership in the contest of private firms. EURAM Annual Conference (2025), Florence, Italy, 22-25 June 2025
Quarato, F., D’Allura, G., Cambrea, R.D. & Latella, P. Corporate Social Performance in Listed Family Firms: The Impact of CEO Succession. EURAM Annual Conference (2025), Florence, Italy, 22-25 June 2025
Latella, P. & Quarato, F. Navigating the pandemic: the impact of family ownership in the contest of private firms. IFERA Annual Conference (2025), Zadar, Croatia, 10-13 June 2025
D’Allura, G., Cambrea, R.D., Quarato, F. & Latella, P. CEO succession and corporate social performance: The role of moderating contingencies. IFERA Annual Conference (2025), Zadar, Croatia, 10-13 June 2025
Zona, F., Quarato, F., Coller, G., & Cambrea, D.R. Board independence, Co-CEOs and export sales performance in family firms. IFERA Annual Conference (2024), Lisbon, Italy, 18-21 June 2024
Zona, F., Quarato, F., Coller, G., & Cambrea, D.R. Collegial Leadership, Independent Directors and Family Firm Exporting. SPGC Global Family Business SUMMIT (2024), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, 15-17, May, 2024
D’Allura G.M. & Quarato, F. Unraveling the gender-innovation nexus in corporate governance: an empirical investigation in family and non-family listed firms. SPGC Global Family Business SUMMIT (2024), Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, 15-17, May, 2024
Zona, F., Quarato, F., Coller, G., & Cambrea, D.R. Agent-agent conflict: board independence, Co-CEOs and firm exporting in family firms – 18th European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) Workshop 2023, Naples, Italy, 2/3 October 2023
D'Allura, G.M., Quarato, F., Dagnino, G.B., Merlo, E. & Perugini, M., Family Firms investments in Corporate Heritage: what is the link? SINERGIE, SIMA Annual Conference, Bari, 29-30 June, 2023
Amore, M.A., Cambrea, D.R., Muñoz-Bullón, F., Quarato, F., & Sanchez-Bueno, M.J. CEO Mentoring and Post-Succession Performance in Family Firms. EURAM Annual Conference: Transforming Business for Good, Dublin, 14-16 June, 2023
D'Angelo, A., Quarato, F., & Cambrea, D.R., Women Ceos and Internationalization of Family-Controlled Firms: the Moderating Role of Ownership And Governance Openness. 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 – International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Conference 2022, Santander, Spain, 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 acquisitions from the SEW perspective. 2nd IFBRF - International Family Business Research Forum, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, 15-17 September 2016.

Research Interests

Corporate strategy. Government and management of family-owned businesses. Corporate governance: characteristics, functioning and evaluation of the boards of directors.