Gabriella Cacciotti

Biography

Gabriella Cacciotti is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University. 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. Her research has been published in Journal of Business Venturing, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.

Awards and Honors

• 2019 Thinkers50 Radar Group, Thinkers50 (January 2019)
• “A reconceptualization of fear of failure” Best paper award 2016 in the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Venturing/Lazardis Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo (November 2018)
• Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award, Warwick Business School (July 2018)
• NFIB doctoral dissertation award Entrepreneurship division, Academy of Management/NFIB Education Foundation (August 2016)
• G. Dale Meyer Best Paper Award for the most relevant research in Social Entrepreneurship, Babson Conference/G. Dale Meyer (June 2014)
• National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Award for Excellence in Research, Babson Conference/NFIB (June 2013)

Licensures and Certifications

• Higher Education Fellowship Certification, Higher Education Academy (September 2019 - Present)

Publications

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Failing and exiting in social and commercial entrepreneurship: The role of situated cognition," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Vol. 14, (November 2020) (coauthors: Pablo Munoz, Deniz Ucbasaran).

"Who complies with covid-19 transmission mitigation behavioral guidelines?," PL o S ONE, Vol. 15, No. 10, (September 2020) (coauthors: Ahmed Nofal, Nick Lee).

"Entrepreneurial fear of failure: Scale development and validation," Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 35, No. 5, (September 2020), pp. 106041 (coauthors: James C Hayton, J.Robert Mitchell, David G. Allen).

"Can prosocial motivation harm entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being?," Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 34, (July 2019), pp. 608-624 (coauthors: Ewald Kibler, Joakim Wincent, Teemu Kautonen, Martin Obschonka).

"Commentary: Blockholder structures and power mechanisms in family firms.," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Vol. 42, No. 2, (December 2017), pp. 252-258 (coauthors: Deniz Ucbasaran).

"A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship.," Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 31, (May 2016), pp. 302-325 (coauthors: James C Hayton, J.Robert Mitchell, Andreas Giazitzoglu).

"Fear and entrepreneurship: A review and research agenda.," International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 17, No. 2, (April 2015), pp. 165-190 (coauthors: James C Hayton).

"Is there an entrepreneurial culture? A review of empirical research," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal, Vol. 25, No. 9-10, (December 2013), pp. 708-731 (coauthors: James C. Hayton).