Dr. Ana Perez-Luno

• Martín-Hidalgo, F., Herrero, I & Pérez-Luño, A, The Lights and Shadows of Family Involvement in Small and Medium Sized Firms, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 15, (1), 2024, p4137 - 4160Journal Article, 2024, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Stephan, U., Zbierowski, P., Pérez-Luño, A., Wach, D., Wiklund, J., Alba Cabañas, M., Barki, E., Benzari, A., Bernhard-Oettel, C., Boekhorst, J. A., Dash, A., Efendic, A., Eib, C., Hanard, P.-J., Iakovleva, T., Kawakatsu, S., Khalid, S., Leatherbee, M., Li, J., " Zahid, M. M., Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47, (3), 2023, p682 - 723Journal Article, 2023, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Martínez-del-Río, J., Perez-Luño, A. & Bojica, A.M., In prosperity and adversity? The value of high-performance work practices for SMEs under conditions of environmental hostility and social embeddedness, International Journal Of Manpower, 44, (4), 2023, p618 - 634Journal Article, 2023, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Pérez-Luño, A., Aguilar-Caro, R. and Muñoz-Doyague, The influence of personality and team-member exchange on creativity: a gendered approach, Gender in Management, 39, (1), 2024, p145 - 164Journal Article, 2024, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Pérez-Luño A, Díez Piñol M, & Dolan SL, Exploring High vs. Low Burnout amongst Public Sector Educators: COVID-19 Antecedents and Profiles, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (2), 2022, p780 - p20Journal Article, 2022, URL , TARA - Full Text
• Martín-Hidalgo, F.A. & Pérez-Luño, A., Uncovering hidden human capital in uncertain times by exploring strategic resources in Spanish wineries, International Journal of Wine Business Research, 34, (1), 2022, p69 - 85Journal Article, 2022, URL
• Pérez-Luño, A., Yu. W., Wiklund, J., , Sombras, pero también luces, de los síntomas de TDAH para el emprendimiento, Emprendimiento y negocios internacionales, 2022Journal Article, 2022
• Yu. W., Wiklund, J., & Pérez-Luño, A., ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO), and Firm Performance, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2021Journal Article, 2021, TARA - Full Text
• Pradana, M, Pérez-Luño, A. & Fuentes-Blasco, M, Innovation as the key to gain performance from absorptive capacity and human capital, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2020Journal Article, 2020, TARA - Full Text
• Farazi, MS, Gopalakrishnan, S. & Perez-Luño, A, Depth and breadth of knowledge and the governance of technology alliances, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management , 2019Journal Article, 2019
• Pérez-Luño A., Bojica A. & Gopalakrishnan, S, When more is less: The role of cross-functional integration, knowledge complexity and product innovation in "rm performance, International Journal Of Operations And Production Management, 2019Journal Article, 2019, TARA - Full Text
• Pérez-Luño, A., Alegre, J., Valle-Cabrera, R. , The role of tacit knowledge in connecting knowledge exchange and combination with innovation, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management , 2019Journal Article, 2019
• Pradana, M., Pérez-Luño, A., & Fuentes-Blasco, M, Revisiting measure of absorptive capacity: applying the scales in Spanish wine industry, Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences, 2019Journal Article, 2019
• Andrew Zacharakis Babson College Luisa Alemany ESADE Keith Hmieleski Texas Christian University Dan Hsu Appalachian State University Kim Klyver University of Southern Denmark Mirjam Knockaert Ghent University Corina Lomberg Technical University of Denmark Charles Murnieks University of Missouri-Kansas City Lucia Naldi Jönköping International Business School Larry Plummer Western University Maija Renko DePaul University David Townsend Pamplin College of Business David Williams The University of Tennessee Marilyn Uy Nanyang Technological University(ed.), PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL BABSON COLLEGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH CONFERENCE, FRONTIERS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH, Babson College, 41, 2020, 2021Proceedings of a Conference, 2021
• Martina Brophy, Ana Pérez-Luño, Thomas M Cooney, Competency-based training within the prison system: enhancing the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity upon release, JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND WORK, 2024Journal Article, 2024, TARA - Full Text
• Sarah Kovoor-Misra, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Ana Perez-Luno, Sreevas Sahasranamam, Barbara Larraneta, Grappling with Grand Crises: An Ecosystem Approach, Journal of Management Inquiry, 1, (7), 2025Journal Article, 2025, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• María Carmen García-Cortijo, Juan Sebastián Castillo-Valero, Ana Pérez-Luño, The proactive role played by sustainable wineries at times of economic crisis, British Food Journal, 126, (8), 2024, p3177 - 3196Journal Article, 2024, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Ana Pérez-Luño, Johan Wiklund, Ute Stephan, Daniel Lerner, Building the evidence-base: Methodological advancement in research on entrepreneurship and well-being, Business Research Quarterly, 2025Journal Article, 2025

As an active researcher involved in several local and international research groups, I am currently collaborating with colleagues from 26 countries worldwide. I have served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the following research projects: 1. PID2020-114751RB-I00: Innovation in Start-ups: A Contingent Analysis of Entrepreneurial Creativity, Founding Team Characteristics, and Participation in Acceleration Programs (INNOSTART). 2. PY20_00856: Entrepreneurial Creativity as a Key Resource for Innovation and Economic and Psychosocial Well-being in Times of Crisis: A Gendered Analysis. 3. UPO-1258353: Winemaker"s Personality, Innovation, and Local-Regional Articulation as Key Success Factors in Wine Tourism Activities: A Multidisciplinary Study. 4. Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund: Lights and Shadows of Social Media on Women Entrepreneurs: Balancing Professional, Personal, and Biological Benefits and Costs. The Buffering Role of Psychological Resources. (Project No. 212929; Award No. 18444; Co-researchers: Wladislaw Rivkin (TBS), Melissa Conroy (School of Medicine), Alina Paula Cosma (School of Psychology); Funded with €2,000; Duration: 06/02/2024"30/09/2026). 5. Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund: Mapping Entrepreneurial and Employee Well-being: Social Aims, Gender Perspectives, and Contextual Factors (MEW-SAGE). (Project No. 212929; Award No. 18977; Co-researchers: Wladislaw Rivkin (TBS), Melissa Conroy (School of Medicine), Alina Paula Cosma (School of Psychology); Funded with €1,000; Duration: 06/02/2024"30/09/2027). These projects share a common focus on understanding individuals (their personality, well-being, and creativity), emphasizing social innovation, and adopting a gender perspective. Their aims align with multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10). Funding from Projects 1 and 2 has supported collaborations with international groups such as Supporting Entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Study of Entrepreneurs" Resilience and Well-being and ECREABIEN. Longitudinal data collected from these initiatives on social innovation, entrepreneurial creativity, and well-being has been disseminated through academic journals (e.g., Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Journal of Manpower), conferences (e.g., Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Academy of Management Proceedings), and media outlets. Analysis of this data continues, and further findings will be disseminated over the coming years. Additionally, this funding supported the organization of the International Workshop on Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Post-Crisis Times (2022). Funding from Project 3, along with my participation in the international project SO3/P2/F0917 VINCI (European Commission, SUDOE Programme), enabled an in-depth study of the Spanish wine industry, focusing on social innovation through ethnographic analysis, case studies, interviews, and surveys. At Trinity, I have also secured two grants from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) and one from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (SAMS). These support the Workshops on New Entrepreneurial Trends (May 2024) and a new research line on The Lights and Shadows of Social Media on Diverse Entrepreneurs: The Role of Psychological Resources. Additionally, I have applied for a grant to supervise four PhD theses and am currently working on a European Union funding proposal.

• Title

  Innovation in startups: A contingent analysis of entrepreneurial creativity, the characteristics of the founding team and the participation in acceleration programs
  Summary

  The key aspects for economic growth and improved productivity lies in the entrepreneurial capacity of an economy (Prodi, 2002). In Spain, the 2.9 million SMEs and the self-employed contribute 65% of GDP and 75% of jobs (MINCOTUR, 2020). Unfortunately, COVID-19 is having serious consequences on business activity of all types of companies, and especially for the entrepreneurial population (GEM, 2020). The entrepreneurial population is a special group at risk due to the fragility with which they face crises. On the one hand, its financial and human resources are limited. On the other, they have a responsibility for their workers and organizations that magnifies the emotional and economic burden suffered in especially complex situations (Wach et al., 2020). Entrepreneurship was important before the crisis, however, now it is essential to guarantee not only survival, but also to operations, working to solve a problem for which there is no obvious solution, with a strong technological component and high growth potential (Michelino et al., 2017). Its small size and youth imply a shortage of financial and technical resources for the development of new technologies and their launch on the market. Therefore, its innovation and success depend on other types of resources. Thus, the General Objective proposed in this proposal is: to contingently analyze how the individual characteristics of the entrepreneur that lead to creativity (having as a antecedents their gender, age and socioeconomic origin; and cognitive and emotional factors such as psychological capital, psychosocial well-being and stress), those of the founding team (intellectual capital and demographic and functional diversity) and participation in acceleration programs influence the innovation and success of startups. This objective is aligned with Challenge 6 of the State Plan, contributing to the understanding and generation of knowledge about a part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, incorporating the gender perspective, in its role as a generator of innovation and growth. Starting from a wide database of startups and Spanish accelerators (already available by the members of the proposal), the project includes a longitudinal study (including a multi-case study, online surveys and daily short telephone interviews for 10 consecutive days in two moments of time) to support the initial hypothesis and to achieve the general and specific objectives detailed in the proposal. The proposal is novel because: 1) Compared with previous partial studies, it combines individual, organizational and contextual elements to explain the phenomenon of innovation and the success of Startups. 2) It explains that entrepreneurial creativity, one of the determinants of Startup innovation and success, is a changing state that can be increased by influencing the variables that impacts it. 3) It carries out an analysis of the main characteristics of the founding team that favor innovation and success in Startups. 4) It analyzes the differential impact of participation in acceleration programs from the perspective of Startups. 5) It applies the longitudinal methodology to be able to identify modifications in the variables.
  Funding Agency

  Spainish Ministry of Science
  Date From

  01/09/2021
  Date To

  01/09/2024
• Title

  Entrepreneurial Creativity as a Key Resource for Innovation and Economic and Psychosocial well-being in Times of Crisis: A Gendered Analysis
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Financed by Andalusia"s knowledge agency
  Date From

  01/10/2021
  Date To

  31/12/2023
• Title

  Winemaker's personality, innovation and local-regional articulation as key success factors in wine tourism activities: a multidisciplinary study
  Summary
  Funding Agency

  Financed by FEDER funding
  Date From

  01/01/2020
  Date To

  01/12/2023

Social sciences, Clinical and health psychology, Economics and Business Administration,

• Best Paper nomination: Tran, M., Wiklund, J., Yu, W., & Perez-Luño, A. ADHD Symptoms, Gender, social support and entrepreneurial wellbeing. XXXII ACEDE. Aliante, 2023. June 2023
• Best Paper Award: GEM-ACEDE conference: Entrepreneurs' well-being and long working hours: Deos gender and socioeconomic status impact this relationship? September 2024
• Best Paper nomination: Yu, W., Wiklund, J. & Pérez-Luño, A. ADHD Symptoms, Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) and Firm Performance. 2018 AM Meeting. Chicago, 2018. August 2018
• Beneficiary of scholarship for mobility of teachers and senior researchers in foreign education and research centres, including in the Salvador de Madariaga 2019 (January-July 2020; King"s College London) January-July 2020
• Best Paper award: XXIX ACEDE 2019: Martín-Hidalgo, F., Herrero, I & Pérez-Luño, A. Human Capital in Family Firms: Does it lead to higher performance? June 2019.
• Best Paper award: AEDEM 2019: Innovation in value creation section. Pradana, M., Pérez-Luño, A. Fuentes-Blasco, M. Innovation as the key to gain performance from Absorptive Capacity and Human Capital. UPO, Sevilla, June 2019. JUNE 2019
• Doctor Europeus with the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude and awarded with the Extraordinary prize of PhD at Pablo de Olavide university for being the best dissertation that year 22/06/2007

• Academy of Management
• ACEDE (Spanish scientific association of economics and business management)
• InnLab (https://www.upo.es/inn-lab/en/home/) INN-LAB is a Research Center of Pablo de Olavide University created with the mission of contributing, through research and knowledge transfer, to search instruments that enhance the innovative capacity of SMEs and family businesses, and the creation and development of high value-added companies.
• ECREABIEN (https://www.upo.es/investiga/ecreabien/en/home/) International agreement to support entrepreneurs
• GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) and GUESSS
• Guest Editor and Senior editor for Business Research Quarterly Journal
• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Editorial Board
• Iberoamerican Academy of Management
• Easter Academy of Management

• President of the international PhD Thesis Defense: STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION: A KEY LEVER FOR STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS" (Author: Juan Carlos Rivera). School of Business Administration, Economics, and Information Systems at the University of Passau and Pablo de Olavide University. 21-12-2023
• President of the committee of Oscar Llopis Promotion to be Associate Professor. Valencia University 14-10-2022
• Member of the Committee in the international Thesis Defense: Strategies of New Firms in the Formative Years of a Developing Economy (Author: Samuel Kamugisha). Jönköping International Business School 16-12-2022
• Guest Editor at Business Research Quarterly: Special Issue on Mental Health, Well-being, and Entrepreneurship (see https://journals.sagepub.com/page/brq/special-issues/mental-health-well-being-entrepreneurship]. 2023-2024
• Member of the committee in the international PhD thesis defense: An exploration of tacit knowledge in entrepreneurship (Author: Nils Wuytens). 2023