Award Recipients
Philipp Jaufenthaler, Reputational Consequences of Signaling Family Business: An Investigation Across Stakeholders, Cultures, and Contexts
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
Award Recipients
James J. Chrisman, Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, and Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Toward a Property Rights Theory of the Family Firm
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
Award Recipients
Award Recipients
Francesco Barbera
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
Award Recipients
Lloyd Steier
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
International Award
Award Recipients
Peter Jaskiewicz
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
FBR Awards
Award Recipients
Roy Suddaby, Wilson Ng, Natalia Vershinina, Gideon Markman, and Matthew Cadbury, Sacralization and the Intergenerational Transmission of Values in Cadbury
Honorable Mention: Christina Lubinski and William B. Gartner, Talking about (My) Generation: The Use of Generation as Rhetorical History in Family Business
Honorable Mention: Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh, Alfredo De Massis, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Examining Heterogeneous Configurations of Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms through the Formalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
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
Award Recipients
Sarah Burrows
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