Professors

Francesca MELILLO

Associate Professor

Employee entrepreneurship, strategic human capital, the labor market consequences of an entrepreneurial experience, employee mobility, start-ups hiring & retention strategies

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Francesca MELILLO

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location

Lille

Discipline

Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Education
2012
Ph.D. in Management, Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy
2008
MSc, Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy
2005
BA, Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2022
Associate Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
Since 2019
Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
2014 - 2019
Assistant Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2012 - 2014
Post-doc, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2022
What Makes Entrepreneurship Countercyclical? Evidence from the Shutdown of Start-Up Subsidies in Denmark, Academy of Management Meeting
2018
Best Paper Proceedings for the paper: "Prior Wage & the Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience", with T. Reichstein and J. Mahieu, Academy of Management Meeting
2016
The returns to entrepreneurial experience, Flemish Research Council Grant (FWO)
2014
Best Paper Proceedings for the paper: "Unpredictably Stable. An Investigation into the Stayer-Mover Tendencies among Entrepreneurs", with T. Reichstein and V. Failla, Academy of Management Meeting
2013
NORC Enclave Sponsored Seat for the restricted-access of the Kauffman Firm Survey data, Kauffman Firm
2012
Best Paper Proceedings for the paper: "Endogeneity in Start-up Size. Selection Effects among Types of Entrants", Academy of Management Meeting
Research Grants
2019
An in-depth examination of founding team formation, SKEMA Business School, France
Other research activities
Reviewer for:
Journal of Business Venturing, Management Science, European Management Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, Labour Economics, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2019
SEI Faculty Workshop
Other academic activities
Since 2022
EU Tender "Enhancing women & girls ESTEAM competences", Deloitte, France
Since 2022
Search committee for hiring a KTO faculty, SKEMA Business School, France
2021
SKEMA workshop “Mobility and organizational outcomes”, SKEMA Business School, France
Since 2021
Member of the Phd Scientific Committee (phd recruitment), SKEMA Business School, France

Peer-reviewed journal articles

FAILLA, V., FOSS, N., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2024). When inequality means equity: horizontal wage dispersion and the propensity to leave current employment across different organizational settings. Industrial and Corporate Change.
MELILLO, F., HALBINGER, M. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2024). The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest. Industrial and Corporate Change.
MARINO, M., MELILLO, F., PARROTTA, P. and SMITH, N. (2024). What makes entrepreneurship counter-cyclical? Evidence from a shutdown of start-up subsidies in Denmark. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F. and THOMPSON, P. (2022). The Long-Term Consequences of Entrepreneurship: Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs. Strategic Management Journal, 43(2), pp. 213-236.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F., REICHSTEIN, T. and THOMPSON, P. (2021). Shooting Stars? Prior wage and the returns to Entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 15(4), pp. 526-567.
FAILLA, V., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2017). Entrepreneurship and employment stability--Job matching, labour market value, and personal commitment. Journal of Business Venturing, 32(2), pp. 162-177.

Conference proceedings

MAHIEU, J. and MELILLO, F. (2019). A Competitor's Curse? Entrepreneurship, Luck, and Career Concerns.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2018). Prior Wage & the Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience.
FAILLA, V., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2014). Unpredictably Stable. An Investigation into the Stayer-Mover Tendencies among Entrepreneurs.
MELILLO, F., FOLTA, T.B. and DELMAR, F. (2012). Endogeneity in Start-up Size. Selection Effects among Types of Entrants.

Conference presentations

MAHIEU, J. and MELILLO, F. (2019). A Competitor's Curse? Entrepreneurship, Luck, and Career Concerns. In: AOM American Academy of Management Conference. Boston.
MAHIEU, J. and MELILLO, F. (2019). Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs. In: DRUID Conference. Copenhagen.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2019). Prior Wage & the Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Frankfurt.
MELILLO, F. (2019). Shooting Stars? Uncertainty in hiring entrepreneurs. In: Invited research seminar at EPFL. Lausanne.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2018). Prior Wage & the Returns to Entrepreneurial Experience. In: AOM American Academy of Management Conference. Chicago.
MAHIEU, J., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2018). Shooting Stars? Prior Wage & Returns to Entrepreneurship. In: DRUID Conference. Copenhagen.
MELILLO, F. and HALBINGER, M. (2017). Social Identification & Entrepreneurial Action: An Investigation into Hacker-Maker Communities. In: DRUID Conference. New York.
FAILLA, V., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2016). Competitive Pressures and Transition to Entrepreneurship. Empirical Evidence from Female Workers. In: DRUID Conference. Copenhagen.
MELILLO, F., FAILLA, V. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2016). Competition in Workplace & Entrepreneurial Entry. In: CEPR. Stockholm.
FAILLA, V., MELILLO, F. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2015). Tournament in Workplace and Entrepreneurial Entry: The Interplay between Selection and Treatment Effects. In: DRUID Conference. Copenhagen.
MELILLO, F., FOLTA, T.B. and DELMAR, F. (2015). Endogeneity in start-up size. Selection Effects among Types of Entrants. In: AOM American Academy of Management Conference. Boston.

Faculty research seminar presentations

MELILLO, F., MAHIEU, J. and THOMPSON, P. (2021). The Long-Term Cost of Entrepreneurship: Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs. In: SIE Workshop (Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship). virtual.