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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

Associate Professor

Academy: Innovation

Research centre: Knowledge, Technology and Organization

Location: LILLE

email: francesca.melillo@skema.edu

Publications

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

MATHIEU, 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.

MELILLO, F., FAILLA, V. and REICHSTEIN, T. (2016). Competition in Workplace & Entrepreneurial Entry. In: CEPR. Stockholm.

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., 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.

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.

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.

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

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:

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Management Review, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Venturing, Labour Economics, Management Science, Research Policy, Research Policy, Small Business Economics

Organization of a conference or a research seminar

2019 SEI Faculty Workshop

Professional activities

Other professional activities

Since 2022 EU Tender "Enhancing women & girls ESTEAM competences", Deloitte, France

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