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 OFFICERS (2022-2023):
SIG Chair, Elias Hadjielias (Cyprus University of Technology) elias.hadjielias@cut.ac.cy
SIG Programme Chair, Jan-Philipp Ahrens (University of Mannheim), jahrens@staff.mail.uni-mannheim.de
SIG Programme Chair-Elect and Communications officer, Elena Casprini (University of Siena) elena.casprini@unisi.it
GT04_00 – Family Business Research General Track
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. Although family business research is progressing in terms of theory building, it still lacks a systematic adoption of thorough and theoretically-based frameworks. To advance our field, we welcome papers investigating one or several dimensions of family businesses, with multi-theoretical and multi-level approach, and cross-cultural research. We are particularly interested in advancing “Family Business” as an autonomous Research Field with contributions that offer rigor to the Academia and relevance to owner-managers, practitioners and local communities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Allan Discua Cruz, Lancaster University Management School, a.discuacruz@lancaster.ac.uk
FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST04_01 – Strategy, Innovation, and Digitalization in Family Firms
This track aims to attract contributions that investigate Strategy, Innovation, and Digitalization in family firms. Understanding how a family firm’s unique and distinctive features affect adoption of an appropriate strategy fit for the digital age, embrace innovation and digitalization to “transform the business for good” is paramount to remain competitive in today’s dynamic environment. With the intention to advance the debate on these topics, we solicit authors to submit empirical, conceptual, and literature review contributions. Adoption of various theoretical and methodological approaches are welcomed, as well as submissions by interdisciplinary and industry-academic teams.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education
Rafaela Gjergji , Università Cattaneo – Liuc, rgjergji@liuc.it
Honorary supporters: Elena Casprini, University of Siena; Valentina Lazzarotti, Università Cattaneo – Liuc; Reinhard Prügl, Zeppelin University; Josip Kotlar, Politecnico di Milano – School of Management.
FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH SIG TRACKS
T04_05 – Behavior, Performance, and Sustainability in Family Firms
Since the beginning of Covid-19 emergency, family firms stood out for their responsiveness in fighting pandemic, in many cases showing unique innovativeness and responsibility for community (Le-Breton-Miller & Miller, 2022). Given that the key factor that distinguishes family firms from others is the family’s involvement in ownership, board and management of their firms along with their willingness to transfer family control to the future generations (Chua et al., 1999; Daspit et al., 2018), the relationships between family firm’s corporate governance and performance (social and financial) deserve to be further investigated.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty, Goal 2: Zero hunger, Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 4: Quality education, Goal 5: Gender equality, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 10: Reducing inequalities, Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities, Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production, Goal 13: Climate action, Goal 14: Life below water, Goal 15: Life on land, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Mario Ossorio, Università degli Studi della Campania – mario.ossorio@unicampania.it
