Professors

Ambra MAZZELLI

Associate Professor

Social Identity, Goals and Motivation, Strategic Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Behavioral Strategy, Inequality

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Ambra MAZZELLI

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location

Paris

Discipline

Management & Organization

Ambra Mazzelli is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Organizations at SKEMA Business School. Originally from Italy, Ambra lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Boston (USA), Montreal (Canada), and Lancaster (UK). Before joining SKEMA Business School, she was an Assistant Professor at the Asia School of Business and an International Faculty Fellow and Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan.

Ambra's research investigates the psychological underpinnings of firms' strategic decisions. She is also interested in the role of entrepreneurship in society. Her work has appeared in numerous top journals, including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Long Range Planning.

Besides her research, she has actively and enthusiastically advised on more than fifty projects in large international firms and conglomerates, at both strategic and operational levels, and continues to consult for managers and executives at publicly listed companies and large private firms in Asia and Europe. 

Education
2016
PhD in Management, Lancaster University Management School, Great Britain
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2022
Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School, France

Peer-reviewed journal articles

FOSS, N. and MAZZELLI, A. (2024). Bringing managers and management back into strategy: Interfaces and dynamic managerial capabilities. Journal of Business Research, 186, pp. 114947.
MAZZELLI, A., MILLER, D., LE BRETON-MILLER, I., DE MASSIS, A. and KOTLAR, J. (2023). Outcome-based imitation in family firms’ international market entry decisions. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(4), pp. 1059–1092.
MAZZELLI, A. (2023). Why managers matter: the paradox of organizing. Journal of Organization Design, (12), pp. 31-36.
MAZZELLI, A., DE MASSIS, A., MESSENI PETRUZZELLI, A., DEL GIUDICE, M. and KAHN, Z. (2020). Behind ambidextrous search: The microfoundations of search in family and non-family firms. Long Range Planning, 53(6), pp. 101882.
MAZZELLI, A., NASON, R., DE MASSIS, A. and KOTLAR, J. (2019). Causality rules: Performance feedback on hierarchically related goals and capital investment variability. Journal of Management Studies, 56(8), pp. 1630-1654.
NASON, R., MAZZELLI, A. and CARNEY, M. (2019). The Ties that Unbind: Socialization and Business-Owning Family Reference Point Shift. Academy of Management Review, 44(4), pp. 846-870.
MAZZELLI, A., NASON, R. and CARNEY, M. (2019). Breadth and depth in family business research: A response to Jaskiewicz, Combs, and Ketchen. Academy of Management Review, 44(4), pp. 918-922.
MAZZELLI, A., KOTLAR, J. and DE MASSIS, A. (2018). Blending in while standing out: Selective conformity and product innovation introduction in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(2), pp. 206-230.

Book chapters

MAZZELLI, A. (2015). Behavioural theory and the family business. In: Theoretical perspectives on family businesses. 1st ed. Edward Elgar Publishing.