SIG 04: Family Business Research
The European Academy of Management with an ad-hoc Strategic Interest Group on “Family Business Research” aims to be the ideal opportunity to assess the conceptual development, empirical research, and future directions of the family business field within a broader community of European scholars of management.
We envision this SIG as an international arena to attract contributions of both new scholars of the field and scholars from the established community in family business, that will provide new insights on topics that have received significant attention in the past, as well as we especially encourage scholars to undertake innovative papers and discussions of topics that have not received much attention but are important in the field.
SIG Chair: Donata Mussolino (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Chair-Elect: Alfredo De Massis (Centre for Family Business, IEED, Lancaster University Management School, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Program Chair: Reinhard Pruegl (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Program Chair-Elect: Massimo Baù (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Treasurer: Giovanna Campopiano (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Secretary: Jana Hauck (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG General Track
04-00 FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH
Family-owned firms are one of the foundations of the world’s business community. Their creation, growth and longevity are critical to the success of the global economy. During the past decade, although family business research is progressing in terms of theory building, it still lacks a systematic adoption of thorough and theoretically-based frameworks (Chrisman, Chua, & Sharma, 2003; Sharma, 2004; Zahra & Sharma, 2004). To advance our field we welcome papers investigating one or several dimensions of family businesses, with multi-theoretical and level approach (e.g. management, entrepreneurship, finance, psychology, sociology, etc.) and cross-cultural research. We are particularly interested in advancing “Family Business” as an autonomous Research Field with contributions which offer Rigor to the Academia and Relevance to owner-managers, practitioners and local communities.
Chairs: Andrea Calabrò (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Eddy Laveren (University of Antwerp, Belgium) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lorraine Uhlaner (EDHEC Business School, France) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thomas Markus Zellweger (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Keywords: Family business; Theoretical development; Multi-theoretical and level approach; Empirical issues; Future directions; New perspectives.
SIG Standing Tracks
ST_04-01 Family Business Governance
Research on corporate governance in family businesses has increased significantly in recent years, providing new insights into the dynamics of governance and decision-making in these organizations. However, much still remains to be done. To better understand the governance of family firms, more research on important topics (e.g., boards of directors, ownership structure, family governance mechanisms such as a family council, the interplay between contractual and relational governance mechanisms) and their relation to key outcomes is needed. We encourage submissions from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that contribute to major theoretical and empirical debates in this area of research.
Proponents: Wim Voordeckers (Hasselt University) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Donata Mussolino (University of Naples Federico II) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jolien Huybrechts (Maastricht University)
Keywords: Boards of directors; Ownership structure;Family governance; Relational governance;Firm outcomes.
Topics sponsored by the SIG
T_04-01 Family Firms and Stakeholders: CSR, Branding, Image and Reputation
Family firms represent an interesting context to analyze how stakeholders can influence, e.g., goal-setting, decision-making or other behavioral patterns that can be observed in organizations. In family business research, stakeholder theory is particularly applicable in the realms of Corporate Social Responsibility and family business branding, which investigates why and how family firms portray themselves as family-owned to their stakeholders. We invite scholars to submit manuscripts that address these or other topics related to stakeholder management in family firms and nurture the ongoing debate to contribute to this promising research stream that can help contribute towards a theory of family business.
Proponents: Giovanna Campopiano (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Claudia Binz Astrachan (Lucerne School of Business, Switzerland)
Edward Freeman (University of Virginia, USA)
Justin Craig (Northeastern University, USA)
Keywords: Stakeholders; CSR; Branding; Image; Reputation; Competitive Advantage.
T_04-02 Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transition Economies
Family businesses dominate the economic landscape around the world. The family business field has received increasing attention in academia in the last two decades. However, most findings in the field come from developed countries. Developing, emerging, and transition economies are underrepresented in the field. Such absence restricts theorizing about family businesses. The aim of this special track is to increase understanding about family businesses by encouraging further research on specific environments/contexts by contextualizing theory (theories in context) and/or theorizing about contexts (theories of context) in developing, emerging and transition economies.
Proponents: Basco, R. (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Discua Cruz, A. (Lancaster University, UK)
Jimenez-Seminario, G. (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile)
Ramachandran, K. (Indian School of Business, India)
Xin-chun, L. (Sun Yat-sen Business School, China)
Welter, F. (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung, IfM).
Keywords: Family Business; Theory of context; Contextualizing family firms; Theory in context; Developing, Emerging and Transition economies; context and family firm.
T_04-03 Family business goals, family dynamics, behavioral processes and innovation in family firms
The “Family business goals, family dynamics, behavioral processes and innovation in family firms” track aims to attract contributions which investigate both theoretically and empirically, the role of family business goals, family dynamics, behavioral processes and innovation in family firms. In particular, we solicit authors to submit empirical, conceptual, and literature review contributions promising in understanding the process of goal setting, the interplay between goals, family dynamics, behavioral processes and innovation management in family firm contexts. We welcome the adoption of diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, and submissions by interdisciplinary, international, and mixed industry-academic co-author teams.
Proponents: Alfredo De Massis (Centre for Family Business, IEED, Lancaster University Management School, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jess Chua (Centre for Family Business Management & Entrepreneurship Finance, University of Calgary, US)
Josip Kotlar (Centre for Family Business, IEED, Lancaster University Management School, UK)
Reinhard Prügl (Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, Zeppelin University, Germany)
Keywords: Family business; Goals; Family dynamics; Behavioral processes; Innovation; Succession.
Other relevant information:
- The FBR SIG Committee assigns every year the “FBR SIG BEST PAPER AWARD” to one accepted paper, which has got the highest scores during the review process.
- The FBR SIG Committee assigns every year the “FBR SIG BEST REVIEWER AWARD” to one reviewer who has given his/her services for the FBR SIG EURAM 2015 reviewer activities.
Other SIG Officers:
SIG Chair: Donata Mussolino (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Chair-Elect: Alfredo De Massis (Centre for Family Business, IEED, Lancaster University Management School, UK) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Program Chair: Reinhard Pruegl (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Program Chair-Elect: Massimo Baù (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Treasurer: Giovanna Campopiano (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SIG Secretary: Jana Hauck (Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.