Entrepreneurial Finance

Prof. Dr. Petrit Ademi

Petrit Ademi is Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance at the Center for Financial Services Innovation (FSI-HSG) and the School of Management (SoM-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, where he also serves as Co-Head of the Corporate Venturing Lab. His research focuses on start-up financing, corporate venturing and venture exits. In particular, he focusses on issues relating to decision-making from an investor and venture perspective, the design and impact of investment practices and the topic of venture exits. Petrit previously worked as a research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen and was a visiting researcher at Babson College, USA, as part of his doctorate. He studied at Lancaster University Management School and DHBW Stuttgart and has worked at KPMG and IBM.

Selected research

  • Ademi, P., Schade, P., & Schuhmacher, M. C. (2025). Situated Attention and Strategic Leadership Interfaces: The Role of CEO Humility and Digital Transformation Urgency for Corporate Venture Capital Investments. Journal of Management Studies.

  • Ademi, P., Schuhmacher, M. C., & Zacharakis, A. L. (2023). Evaluating Affordance-based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(6), 2293-2322.

Publications and Vita

Petrit Ademi

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Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Finance

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SoM-HSG
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9000 St. Gallen

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