Daniela is Senior Assistant Professor in Management at the University of Bologna (Italy). She holds a PhD in General Management. She worked as a Junior Assistant Professor in Management at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and as a post-doctoral fellow in European projects in the domain of entrepreneurship and technology transfer. She has been a visiting scholar at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) and at HEC Paris (France). Before starting her PhD, Daniela worked as a professional for around five years in the fields of financial audit and international development in Europe and Africa.
Her main research interests regard the multi-level antecedents and processes of entrepreneurship, especially in the contexts of international, academic, social, and immigrant business. Her research has been published in international journals (including Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, Small Business Economics) and books.