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 (2023-2024):
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Web: Interdisciplinary Resarch Group Family Firms, University of Mannheim
SIG Programme Chair, Prof. Dr. Elena Casprini, University of Siena, elena.casprini@unisi.it
SIG Programme Chair-Elect, Prof. Dr. Allan Discua Cruz, Lancaster University, a.discuacruz@lancaster.ac.uk
SIG Communications Officer, Prof. Dr. Rafaela Gjergji, LIUC – Università Cattaneo, rgjergji@liuc.it
FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH SIG STANDING TRACKS
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 4: Quality education; 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
Primary Contact:
Rafaela Gjergji, Università Cattaneo – Liuc – rgjergji@liuc.it
ST04_01 – 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 fromothers is the family’s involvement in ownership, board and management of their firms along withtheir 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 andfinancial) deserve to be further investigated (Gavana et al., 2023).
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
Primary Contact:
Mario Ossorio, Università degli Studi della Campania – mario.ossorio@unicampania.it
ST04_02 – Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transitional Economies
The “Family business in emerging, developing and transition economies” track aims to contribute to conversations in the family business research field in three ways. First, by encouraging researchers to borrow and replicate research strategies, we expect to foster the generalization of results and test mainstream theories and approaches across contexts. Second, by encouraging researchers to borrow and extend research strategies, we call for scholars to incorporate the specificities of the environment-family relationship to contextualize the family business phenomenon. Finally, by fostering the development of new research designs to build theory around the influence of context on family business and business
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
Primary Contact:
Allan Discua Cruz, Lancaster University Management School – a.discuacruz@lancaster.ac.uk
FAMILY BUSINESS RESEARCH SIG TRACKS
T04_03 – Unveiling the “organizational familiness” of micro and small enterprises: going beyond family bonds
The track nurtures the debate on the conceptualization of familiness in the management debate, contextualizing it to micro and small-sized enterprises. Proposing a view of familiness which is alternative to its understanding as an idiosyncratic bundle of resources of family firms, a contingent perspective is embraced. Organizational familiness arises from the richness of interpersonal exchanges that micro and small-sized enterprises enact in their organizational environment. We call attention to how the organizational context mimic the dynamics that are proper of family settings. The track attempts to illuminate the management features of organizational familiness and examine its implications on organizational success.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people, Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth, Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Rocco Palumbo, University Rome “Tor Vergata” – rocco.palumbo@uniroma2.it