Raphaëlle Mattart, Opening The Black Box of Family Constitutions: An Analysis of Their Roles, Drivers and Outcomes in a Business Family Context

Carlotta Benedetti, Authenticity, Multiple Identities and The Self: A Dynamic and Multifaceted Understanding of Family Firms

Nathaniel Hammond, Towards a theory of legacy: The proposal, development, and validation of a family legacy orientation scale

Mira Bloemen-Bekx, Enriching the Early Phases of the Succession Process: An Explanation of the Role of Social Mechanisms in Business Families

Jasper Brinkerink, Innovation Management in Small and Medium-Sized Family Firms: The role of family-induced differences in attitudes and decision models

Jeroen Neckebrouck, The Effects of Ownership Heterogeneity on the Governance of Private Firms: Insights from family firms and private equity

David Jiang, The Family Ties That Bind: Essays That Examine and Extend the Microfoundations of Socioemotional Wealth Theory

Hanqing Fang, Strategic Persistence, Dominant Strategy and Firm Performance in Publicly Traded Family Firms

Joshua Nacht, The Role of the Family Champion

Miriam Bird, The Impact of the Family on Entrepreneurial Outcomes: The role of social embeddedness

Francesco Barbera, Financing Firm Size and Productive Efficiency: The effect of family ownership

Nadine Kammerlander, Organizational Adaptation to Discontinuous Technological Change: The Effects of Family Influence and Organizational Identity

Best Qualitative Dissertation: Annette Rahael for Co-CEOs: An Exploratory Case Study of Shared Leadership in a Family Owned and Operated Business

Best Quantitative Dissertation: Esra Memili for Control-enhancing Corporate Governance Mechanisms: Family versus Non-family Publicly Traded Firms

Ignacio Requejo Puerto, Corporate Governance in Family Firms: Effects of family control on firm value and corporate financial decisions

Honorable Mention: Fabian Bernhard Psychological Ownership in Family Business

Wayne Jeremy Irava, Familiness Qualities, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Long-term Performance Advantage

Sami Alwuhaibi, A Cultural Perspective on the Impact of Family and Society on the Competitive Advantage of Organizations and Nations

Stephanie Brun de Pontet, Using Theories of Control and Self-regulation to Examine the Leadership Transition Between a Parent and Child in Family-Owned Business

Alain Praet, Large Blockholders: Do family firms differ from others? Evidence from the Belgian stock market

Honorable Mention: Chris Graves Venturing Beyond the Backyard: An examination of the internationalization process of Australian small-to-medium sized family-owned manufacturing enterprises

Honorable Mention: Begona Pereira-Otero Family Business vs. Non-Family Business: A status and dynamic analysis of their differences, from characteristics and elements of the strategic process

Naomi Birdthistle, Ph.D., Small Family Businesses as Learning Organisations: An Irish study

Honorable Mention: Thomas Zellweger Risk, Return and Value in the Family Firm

Alberto Gimeno, Performance in the Family Business: A causal study of internal factors and variables

Annika Hall, Strategising in the Context of Genuine Relations

Elmarie Venter, The Succession Process in Small and Medium-Sized Family Businesses in South Africa

Mark L. Hoelscher, The Relationship Between Family Capital and Family Business Performance: Collaboration and conflict as moderators

Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Patterns in Serial Business Families: Theory building through global case study research

Daphna F. Raskas

Honorable Mention: Pramodita Sharma Determinants of the satisfaction of the primary stakeholders with the succession process in family firms

Daphna F. Raskas

Jeffrey D. Swartz, Towards a Model of Justice in Ownership Succession: An exploratory study of the intergenerational transfer of family business ownership

Michael Wakefield, Antecedents of Conflicts in Family Firms: An empirical study

Marilyn Elaine Fuss-Reineck, Home to Business and Business to Home: Role carry-over between spouses and family businesses

Christopher Eckrich

Susan T. Ferkany, For the Money: Building business in Monterrey, Mexico

Kevin Seymour, Inter-Generational Relationships in the Family Firm: The effect on leadership succession

Johannes Welsch, An Exploratory Investigation of the Impact of Family Ownership and Involvement on the Management Succession Process in Large Industrial Firms: The human resource management perspective

Wendy Handler

Colette Dumas, Daughters in Family-Owned Businesses – An applied systems perspective

Sohrab Soleimanof, G. Tyge Payne, Kristen Madison, and Daniel T. Holt (posthumously awarded), Microfoundations of Strategic Renewal in Family Firms: Insights from Family Communication Patterns Theory

Marco Mismetti, Cristina Bettinelli, and Alfredo De Massis, Conflict Origin and Management Mechanisms in Family Firms

Honorable Mention: Ivan Miroshnychenko, Giorgio Vocalelli, Alfredo De Massis, Stefano Grassi, and Francesco Ravazzolo, The global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on corporate performance of family and nonfamily firms

Eric Clinton, Colm O’Gorman, Dawn R. DeTienne, and Catherine M. Faherty, How emotion-laden considerations affect the paths of longstanding imprints in family firms

Honorable Mention: Fabian Bernhard, Should the next generation show that they are proud? Experimental studies on the outside perspective of expressed pride in family businesses

Zografia Bika and Simy Joy, Contextualizing institutional logics: The difference that the “social class” context makes in “family logic” scripts development and their enactment in Scottish family businesses

David S. Jiang, Franz W. Kellermanns, Timothy P. Munyon, M. Lane Morris, Family Ties That Bind: How emotion and family system dynamics preserve socioemotional wealth

Kristen Madison, Kimberly A. Eddleston, Franz W. Kellermanns, Gary N. Powell, Kinship and Sex in Family Firms: Who Reciprocates the CEO’s Altruistic Behavior?

Honorable Mention: Morten Bennedsen, Sterling Huang, Hannes F. Wagner, Stefan Zeume, Family Firms and Labor Market Regulation

Patricio Duran, Pascual Berrone, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Pursey Heugens, Tatiana Kostova, Marc van Essen, The Family-Legitimizing Environment: A key determinant of family-controlled firms’ prevalence, strategy, and profitability

Honorable Mention: Marjan Houshmand, Marc-David Seidel, Dennis Ma, Overcoming Time Compression Diseconomies of Organizational Emergence Through Family Business Work

Jim Chrisman, Srikant Devaraj, Pankaj C. Patel The Impact of Employee Profit Sharing on Firm Productivity in Family and Non-Family Firms

Honorable Mention: Robert S. Nason, David Gras The Impact of Household Health Events on Family Economic Activity in Indian Slums

Cristina Bettinelli, Manisha Singal, John Davis The Roles of Boards in Family Businesses: Grounded research and new findings

Jan-Philip Ahrens and Michael Woywode for Heroes of the Green Room: Post succession restructuring and corporate performance in family firms

Cinzia Dessi, Michela Floris, Nadine Kammerlander, Alessandra Murru for Breaking with or Adhering to Tradition? Path Dependence and Innovation in Italian Family-Owned WIneries

Nava Michael-Tsabari, Rania Labaki and Ramona Zachary for The Cluster Paradigm Updating the Circle Paradigm: The Family Firm and Entrepreneurial Activities Across Generations

Lucia Naldi, Mattias Nordqvist, Thomas Zellweger, Knowledge Resources and Performance: The moderating role of family involvement in strategy processes

Pankaj Patel, Kimberly Eddleston, Franz Kellermanns, Family Firm Commitment and Performance: A moderated mediation analysis

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Richard Lester, Stewardship or Agency? A social embeddedness reconciliation of conduct and performance in public family businesses

James Chrisman, Jess Chua, Franz W. Kellermanns, Thomas M. Zellweger, Family Firm Valuation by Family CEOS: The role of socioemotional value

Danny Miller, Isabelle le Breton-Miller, Richard H. Lester, Albert A. Canella, Jr., To Reap or To Sow? Governance, strategy and performance in family versus founder businesses

Honorable Mention: Jess H. Chua, Franz Kellermanns, James J. Chrisman, Zhenyu Wu Family Involvement as Social Capital in Debt Financing of New Ventures

Honorable Mention: Justin Craig, Vicki Bitsika Using Valued Outcomes Analysis to Explain Potentially Disruptive Individual Behavior in Family Business: An Exploratory Study

Belen Villalonga, Ph.D., Raffi Amit, Ph.D., Benefits and Costs of Control-Enhancing Mechanisms in U.S. Family Firms

Annika Hall, Mattias Nordqvist, Professional Management in Family Business Contexts: Meanings and implications

Reginald Litz, Understanding the Family Firm Through Metaphor: An alternative strategy for defining the family business

Reginald Litz, Understanding the Family Firm Through Metaphor: An alternative strategy for defining the family business

Pramodita Sharma, S. Manikutty, Shedding of Unproductive Resources in Family Firms: Role of family structure and community culture

Pramodita Sharma, Greg Irving, Four Shades of Family Business Successor Commitment: Motivating factors and expected outcomes

Honorable Mention: Cathleen Folker, Ritch L. Sorenson, Gender Differences in Business Owners: A test of the cooperative network orientation model

Ercilia Garcia-Alvarez, Jordi Sintas-Lopez, Values and Successors: A founder’s legacy of different psychosocial and business blends

Reginald Litz, Robert Kleysen, Your Old Men Shall Dream Dreams; Your Young Men Will See Visions: A conceptualization of of innovation in family firms

Pramodita Sharma, Jess Chua and James Chrisman, Succession Planning and Its Dimensions in Family Firms: An empirical evidence

Barbara Murray

Susan F. Moon, Anisa M. Zvonkovic, Wives’ Perspectives on Their Involvement in Commercial Fishing as a Family Business: Constructing a fishing family

Daniel McConaughy, Founding Family-Controlled Firms: Operations, financing and value

Ivan Light

Barbara Dunn

Steven D. Goldberg, Bill Wooldridge, Self-Confidence and Dominance/Control: An alternative perspective for succession in family business

Richard Guzzo

Cynthia Iannarelli

Stewart Malone, Selected Correlates of Business Continuation Planning in the Family Business

Neus Feliu

Patricia Annino

Kathy Wiseman

Kathryn McCarthy

Ian Macnaughton

Kirby Rosplock

Drew Mendoza

John Davis

Jared Kaplan

The Center of Entrepreneurial Families (CEFEM)

Marion McCollom Hampton

Nancy Drozdow

Peter Leach

Leslie Dashew

James Olan Hutcheson

Jane Hilburt-Davis and Jeffrey Rothstein (posthumously)

Kelin Gersick

Dennis Jaffe

Michael G. Shulman

Renato Tagiuri

François M. de Visscher

Fredda Herz Brown

Miguel Gallo

Joseph Astrachan

Stephen L. McClure

David E. Bork

Craig E.Aronoff

Ernesto Poza

Ivan Lansberg

John L.Ward

Richard Beckhard

Alfredo De Massis

Daphne McGuffin

Jeremy Cheng

Rania Labaki

Dianne H.B. Welsh

Caro Rock

Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

Carlo Salvato

Kenneth Moores

Kim Schneider Malek

Ann Dugan

Carmen Bianchi

Pramodita Sharma

Lloyd Steier

Frank Hoy

Judy L. Green

Greg McCann

Salo Grabinsky

Panikkos Poutziouris

Cynthia Iannarelli

Joyce Brockhaus

David Pistrui

Dirk Jungé

Karen L.Vinton

Paul Karofsky

Patricia Frishkoff

Fredda Herz Brown

Kathy Wiseman

Doug Baumoel

Jack Wofford

Christian Stewart

Andrew Hier

Patricia Angus

Andrew Keyt

Christine Blondel

Greg McCann

Austin Family Business Program at Oregon State University

Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez

Ellen Frankenberg

Glenn Ayres

J. Joseph Paul

Larry Hause

Pitcairn

Bonnie Brown Hartley

Florence Kaslow

University of Tampa Entrepreneur and Family Business Center

Frank Schneider

Dean R. Fowler

Henry Krasnow

Judith Trepeck

Kenneth McCracken

Cambridge Center for Creative Enterprise

University of St.Thomas–Center for Family Enterprise

Schlesinger Global Family Enterprise Case Competition (SG-FECC)

Rodolfo Paiz

IMD Global Family Business Center

Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project

STEP and the STEP Business Families Special Interest Group

El Agamy Family

Dennis Jaffe

Judy Green

Guillermo Salazar

Mark Evans

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Leif Melin

Panikkos Poutziouris

Ernesto Poza

Joseph H. Astrachan

Randel Carlock and Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise at INSEAD

Josianne Fahed Sreih

Matti Koiranen

Joyce & Robert Brockhaus and Albert Jan Thomassen

Marta Vago

Instituto de la Empresa Familiar

Anthony Bogod and Peter Leach

Bocconi University Family Business Program and Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center

Barbara Murray

Ali Azouz, Nicolas Antheaume, and Brigitte Charles-Pauvers, Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience

Honorable Mention: Vittoria Magrelli, Paola Rovelli, Carlotta Benedetti, Ruth Überbacher, and Alfredo De Massis, Generations in Family Business: A Multifield Review and Future Research Agenda

Yasaman Gorji, Michael Carney, and Rajshree Prakash, Celebrity Couples as Business Families: A Social Network Perspective

Honorable Mention: Kai Bormann, Sabrina Backs, and Christina Hoon, Organizational Ambidexterity in Family-Managed Firms: The role of family involvement in top management

Honorable Mention: Hong Qiu, Mark Freel, What Makes Nonfamily Employees Act as Good Stewards? Emotions and the Moderating Roles of Stewardship Culture and Gender Roles in Family Firms

Nancy B. Kurland, Sara Jane McCaffrey, Community Socioemotional Wealth: Preservation, succession, and farming in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Honorable Mention: Nadine Kammerlander, Holger Patzelt, Judith Behrens, Christian Röhm, Organizational Ambidexterity in Family-Managed Firms: The role of family involvement in top management

Linda Murphy, Jolien Huybrechts, Frank Lambrechts, The Origins and Development of Socioemotional Wealth Within Next-Generation Family Members: An Interpretive Grounded Theory Study

Honorable Mention: Sabine Rau, Viktoria Schneider-Siebke, Christina Günther, Family Firm Values Explaining Family Firm Heterogeneity

Honorable Mention: Melanie Richards, Nadine Kammerlander, and Thomas Zellweger, Listening to the Heart or the Head? Exploring the “Willingness Versus Ability” Succession Dilemma

Francesco Barbera, Isabell Stamm, Rocki-Lee DeWitt, The Development of an Entrepreneurial Legacy: Exploring the role of anticipated futures in transgenerational entrepreneurship

Honorable Mention: Inés Herrero, How Familial Is Family Social Capital? Analyzing Bonding Social Capital in Family and Nonfamily Firms

Daniel Holt, Kristen Madison, Franz W. Kellermanns, Variance in Family Members’ Assessments: The importance of dispersion modeling in family firm research

Olivier Meier, Guillaume Schier, The Early Succession Stage of a Family Firm: Exploring the role of agency rationales and stewardship attitudes

Honorable Mention: Alfredo De Massis, Josip Kotlar, Federico Frattini, Jim Chrisman, Mattias Nordqvist, Family Governance at Work: Organizing for new product development in family SMEs

Trish Reay, Jane Glover, Sustaining the Family Business with Minimal Financial Rewards: How do Family Farms Continue?

Honorable Mention: Yannick Bammens, Anita Van Gils, Guy Notelaers, Implications of Family Business Employment for Employees’ Innovative Work Involvement

Nava Michael-Tsabari, Rania Labaki, and Ramona Kay Zachary, Toward the Cluster Model: The Family Firm’s Entrepreneurial Behavior Over Generations

Guido Corbetta, Carlo Salvato, Transitional Leadership of Advisors as a Facilitator of Successors’ Leadership Construction

Alex Stewart, Michael Hitt, Why Can’t a Family Business Be More Like a Non-Family Business?

Cristina Bettinelli, Boards of Directors in Family Firms: An Exploratory Study of Structure and Group Processes, June 2011

Jorn Block, Family Management, Family Ownership, and Downsizing: Evidence from S&P 500, June 2010

Jeremy Short, Tyge Payne, Keith Brigham, Tom Lumpkin, Christian Broberg, Family Firms and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Publicly Traded Firms: A comparative analysis of the S&P 500, March 2009

Honorable Mention: Hsiang-Lan Chen, Wen-Tsung Hsu, Family Ownership, Board Independence, and R&D Investment

Honorable Mention: Teresa Rothausen, Management Work – Family Research and Work – Family Fit: Implications for Building Family Capital in Family Business

Salvatore Sciascia, Pietro Mazzola, Family Involvement in Ownership and Management: Exploring nonlinear effects on Performance

Honorable Mention: Jose Allouche, Bruno Amann, Jacques Jaussaud, Toshiki Kurashina, The Impact of Family Control on the Performance and Financial Characteristics of Family versus Nonfamily Businesses in Japan: A matched-pair investigation

Honorable Mention: Annalisa Prencipe, Garen Markarian, Earnings Management in Family Firms: Evidence from R & D cost capitalization in Italy

Matthias Waldkirch

Unai Arzubiaga

Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh

David Jiang

Emanuela Rondi

Hanqing Fang

Josip Kotlar

Evelyn Micelotta

Francesco Barbera

Nadine Kammerlander

Aaron McKenny

Alessandro Minichilli

Justin Webb

Andy Yu