Luca Berchicci

Luca Berchicci is Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research examines how organizations develop strategic capabilities for innovation and sustainability transitions, investigating three core themes: capability sourcing choices, internal development mechanisms, and performance outcomes of organizational capabilities.

Berchicci's work appears in premier journals including Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Organization Science. Current projects analyze entrepreneurial failure response (2025), aspiration formation in strategic decision-making (2022), and sustainability performance measurement (2022). He supervises 9 PhD candidates researching diverse topics from social entrepreneurship to platform ecosystems.

His research portfolio includes:

• Empirical analyses of environmental capabilities in M&A markets
• Behavioral studies of innovation adoption
• Meta-analyses of sustainability performance relationships