4TH WORKSHOP ON FAMILY FIRMS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
NAPLES, 8 - 10 JUNE, 2008
CHAIRPERSONS Riccardo VIGANÓ & Donata MUSSOLINO
(University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Leif MELIN & Mattias NORDQVIST
(Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Pramodita SHARMA
(Wilfried Laurier University, Canada) Andrea COLLI
(Bocconi University, Italy) Guido CORBETTA (discussant)
(Bocconi University, Italy) BACKGROUND Family business research has grown fast in both scale and scope over the past decade. Interestingly, most of the recent comparative research between family and non-family firms has concluded that family firms outperform non-family firms on many performance ratios. Naturally, this result puts a positive image on family firms that were not as much considered previously. These findings deserve more research and analysis to understand and disentangle the sources of family firm’s competitiveness.
The three first workshops held in Jönköping in 2005 and 2007 and in Nice in 2006 gave us a new arena for gathering and discussing current research on the management of family firms. This fourth workshop intends to build on the success of the earlier workshops and further expand the horizon for future research on the broad topic if family firm management. We hope that it will be a unique opportunity for researchers to share their experiences, give feedback on each other’s work and to form new research collaborations. In short, we aim to strengthen family firm research, and thereby contribute to the development of knowledge in family firm management and development. The workshop has a tradition to attract well-known scholars from related fields to share their interests and perspectives on family firm management. The first workshop featured Professor David Whetten, the second Professor Danny Miller and Isabelle LeBreton-Miller and the third Professors Tom Lumpkin and Bill Schulze. We intend to invite key note speakers of equal calibre for the 2008 workshop. WORKSHOP PROGRAMME The workshop programme will already start on Sunday June 8 in the evening with registration and an informal welcome dinner.
The academic part of the workshop will however begin on Monday June 9 in the morning and end on Tuesday June 10 in the afternoon. PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES Revised versions of the best papers presented at the conference, addressing the special theme "Management and Governance in Family Firms", will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Management and Governance. DEADLINES Abstracts should be submitted by 15th February, 2008.
Authors will be notified of the chairs’ decisions by 15th March, 2008.
Full Papers are due by 15 th May, 2008.
CALL FOR PAPERS “Family firms” are defined as family-owned or family managed firms. Only papers dealing with at least one of these populations are welcomed
Four categories of research are of interest for the workshop: -
Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the specific sub-theme of “Management and Governance in Family Firms”. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• National corporate governance systems
• The role of the board
• Accounting practices
• Management control
• Non-family CEO
• The relationship between the board and top management
• Strategic management
• Next generation leadership
• The role of family councils and constitutions
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Literature reviews focusing on the family business field: state-of-the-art papers that allow discussing the knowledge already acquired and the main challenges to address in future research. Review papers can either a) focus on a main theme within the general family business field, such as corporate governance, strategic management, human resource management, corporate entrepreneurship, gender or professional management etc or b) focus on the relevance of a specific theory to the study of family firm, such as RBV, agency, social networks, resource dependence, institutionalism, critical management, culture or stewardship to only name a few.
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Papers that use the family firm context for contributing to the development of general management concepts and theories. Comparisons between family and non-family firms, but also between different types of family firms should belong to this category.
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Empirical research focusing on a topics specific to family firms. For instance:
- survival and performance over generations;
- specific competitive advantages of family-firms;
- interactions between the family and the firm and their impact on management;
- governance, decision-making and strategizing processes at the top;
- succession of ownership and leadership.
The cover page should be a separate sheet to include the following information:
- The title of the proposal.
- Each author's name, his/her affiliation, address, telephone, fax and email.
The body of each proposal is an abstract of 1,5-2 pages (cover page not included).
All proposals should be single spaced, typed no smaller than 11 point font.
In the abstract, four categories of information must be clearly highlighted:
- the purpose / topic of the research
- the research method
- the theories used
- the contribution of the research CONFERENCE FEES
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For participants affiliated with an institution that is member or associate member of the EIASM’s
Academic Council | 300 € | | For participants coming from another academic institution | 350 € |
Cancellations made before May 26, 2008 will be reimbursed minus 20% of the total fee. No reimbursement will be possible after that date. Payments should be made by : - Transfer into the EIASM bank account: 424-5533281-33 - (IBAN: BE79 4245 5332 8133) with the KBC bank, Avenue Marnix 31, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, BIC/SWIFT-address: KREDBEBB. (In case of bank charges, they should be paid by the payor)
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