Ivana VITANOVA
Associate Professor
Research topics
1. Managerial overconfidence
2. Managers' and entrepreneurs' personality traits (narcissism, humility)
3. Early-stage fundraising
4. Corporate governance
5. Management of financial distress
6. Gender biases in entrepreneurial finance
Prizes and awards
Publications
Achbah, Rachid, Vitanova, Ivana, Fréchet, Marc. 2024. Failure Escape: The role of advice seeking in CEOs’ awareness of financial difficulties and corporate restructuring. Journal of Business Research, 175 : 19 p.
Vitanova, Ivana. 2023. Self-presentation in entrepreneurial pitches: a review of literature using the dramaturgical approach. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 22 (2) : 147-177 p.
Vitanova, Ivana. 2022. CEO overconfidence and corporate tournaments. Managerial and Decision Economics, 43 (5) : 1423–1438 p.
Vitanova, Ivana. 2021. Nurturing overconfidence: The relationship between leader power, overconfidence and firm performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 32 (4) : 14 p.
Vilanova, Laurent, Vitanova, Ivana. 2021. Humilité et narcissisme des entrepreneurs: Quel impact sur les décisions des investisseurs en capital ?. Revue française de gestion, 47 (299) : 139–161 p.
Vilanova, Laurent, Vitanova, Ivana. 2020. Unwrapping opportunity confidence: how do different types of feasibility beliefs affect venture emergence?. Small Business Economics, 55 (1) : 215–236 p.
Academic articles
Associations
- 2022 - Now: Member of Special Interest Group “Gender and Entrepreneurship (GENSIG)" of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- 2020 - 2024: Member of « Association des Experts en Evaluation d'Entreprises (A3E)"
Editorial Committees
Reviewing in academic journals :
- The Leadership Quarterly - Journal of Business Ethics – Journal of Business Research - Small Business Economics - The European Journal of Finance - Managerial and Decision Economics - Bankers, Markets and Investors – Revue Française de Gestion - Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat
Member of editorial and reviewing team :
- ANR Research projects - Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI) - Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference (RENT)
Communications & Seminars
- Achbah, R.; Frechet, M. & Vitanova, I (2024). Examining the impact of entrepreneurial narcissism on insolvency proceedings initiation by financially distressed SMEs; Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Munich, DE (2024)
- Vilanova, L. & Vitanova, I (2024).Entrepreneurs expressed humility and investors willingness to fund; 40th Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), Lille, FR (2024)
- Achbah, R.; Frechet, M. & Vitanova, I (2023). CEO Advice seeking and the Failure Escape: The Role of the CEO Entourage in Corporate Restructuring; XXXIIème conférence de l'AIMS. Strasbourg, FR (2023)
- Achbah, R.; Frechet, M. & Vitanova, I (2022). CEO Characteristics and Firm Restructuring Decision: The Choice Between In and Out-of-Court Restructuring; 38th Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI). Saint-Malo, FR (2022)
- Vitanova, I. (2022). Self-presentation in entrepreneurial pitches : a review of literature using the dramaturgical approach; Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Conference (RENT), Naples, IT (2022)
- Vilanova, L. & Vitanova, I. (2021). The Power of Expressed Humility : Investors' Reaction to Humble Entrepreneurs ; Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2021, online (2021)
- Vilanova L. & Vitanova I., (2017) Unwrapping Opportunity Confidence : How do Different Types of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Feasibility Beliefs affect Venture Emergence; ECNU-UDL Joint Workshop on Innovation and Finance, Shanghai, CN ( 2017)
- Vitanova I. (2015) CEO overconfidence and corporate tournaments, 31st Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI) Cergy, FR (2015)
- Vitanova I. (2014) Nurturing CEO overconfidence : the dynamics of corporate governance, managerial beliefs and firm performance; EFA Eastern Finance Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2014)
- Vilanova L. & Vitanova I., (2013) Self-efficacy vs. Confidence in Opportunity Outcomes : Which type of entrepreneurial confidence fosters venture emergence ?; Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Lyon, FR (2013)