FFI Awards
Academic Awards
Best Doctoral Dissertation

Award Recipients

2024

Philipp Jaufenthaler, Reputational Consequences of Signaling Family Business: An Investigation Across Stakeholders, Cultures, and Contexts

 

2023

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

 

2022

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

 

2021

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

 

2020

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

 

2019

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

 

2018

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

 

2017

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

 

2016

Joshua Nacht, The Role of the Family Champion

 

2015

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

 

2014

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

 

2013

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

 

2012

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

 

2011

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

 

2010

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

 

2009

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

 

2008

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

 

2007

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

 

2006

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

 

2005

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

 

2004

Annika Hall, Strategising in the Context of Genuine Relations

 

2003

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

 

2002

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

 

2001

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

 

1998

Daphna F. Raskas

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

 

1997

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

 

1996

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

 

1995

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

 

1994

Christopher Eckrich

 

1993

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

 

1992

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

 

1991

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

 

1990

Wendy Handler

1989

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

Best Unpublished Research Paper

Award Recipients

2024

James J. Chrisman, Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, and Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Toward a Property Rights Theory of the Family Firm

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

Barbara Murray

1997

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

1996

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

1995

Ivan Light

1994

Barbara Dunn

1992

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

1991

Richard Guzzo

1990

Cynthia Iannarelli

1990

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

Achievement Awards
Richard Beckhard Practice Award

Award Recipients

2024
James Grubman
 
2023
Neus Feliu
 
2022
Patricia Annino
 
2021
Kathy Wiseman
 
2020
Kathryn McCarthy
 
2019
Ian Macnaughton
 
2018
Kirby Rosplock
 
2017
Drew Mendoza
 
2016
John Davis
 
2015
Jared Kaplan
 
2014
The Center of Entrepreneurial Families (CEFEM)
 
2013
Marion McCollom Hampton
 
2012
Nancy Drozdow
 
2011
Peter Leach
 
2010
Leslie Dashew
 
2009
James Olan Hutcheson
 
2008
Jane Hilburt-Davis and Jeffrey Rothstein (posthumously)
 
2007
Kelin Gersick
 
2006
Dennis Jaffe
 
2005
Michael G. Shulman
 
2004
Renato Tagiuri
 
2003
François M. de Visscher
 
2002
Fredda Herz Brown
 
2001
Miguel Gallo
 
2000
Joseph Astrachan
 
1999
Stephen L. McClure
 
1998
David E. Bork
 
1997
Craig E.Aronoff
 
1996
Ernesto Poza
 
1995
Ivan Lansberg
 
1994
John L.Ward
 
1992
Richard Beckhard
 
Barbara Hollander Award

Award Recipients

2024

Francesco Barbera

 

2023

Alfredo De Massis

 

2022

Daphne McGuffin

 

2021

Jeremy Cheng

 

2020

Rania Labaki

 

2019

Dianne H.B. Welsh

 

2018

Caro Rock

 

2017

Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

 

2016

Carlo Salvato

 

2015

Kenneth Moores

 

2014

Kim Schneider Malek

 

2013

Ann Dugan

 

2012

Carmen Bianchi

 

2011

Pramodita Sharma

 

2010

Lloyd Steier

 

2009

Frank Hoy

 

2008

Judy L. Green

 

2006

Greg McCann

 

2005

Salo Grabinsky

 

2004

Panikkos Poutziouris

 

2003

Cynthia Iannarelli

 

2002

Joyce Brockhaus

 

2001

David Pistrui

 

2000

Dirk Jungé

 

1999

Karen L.Vinton

 

1998

Paul Karofsky

 

1997

Patricia Frishkoff

 

1996

Fredda Herz Brown

 

1995

Kathy Wiseman

 

Interdisciplinary Award

Award Recipients

2024

Lloyd Steier

 

2023

Doug Baumoel

 

2022

Jack Wofford

 

2021

Christian Stewart

 

2020

Andrew Hier

 

2019

Patricia Angus

 

2018

Andrew Keyt

 

2017

Christine Blondel

 

2016

Greg McCann

 

2015

Austin Family Business Program at Oregon State University

 

2014

Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez

 

2013

Ellen Frankenberg

 

2012

Glenn Ayres

 

2011

J. Joseph Paul

 

2010

Larry Hause

 

2009

Pitcairn

 

2008

Bonnie Brown Hartley

 

2007

Florence Kaslow

 

2006

University of Tampa Entrepreneur and Family Business Center

 

2005

Frank Schneider

 

2004

Dean R. Fowler

 

2003

Henry Krasnow

 

2002

Judith Trepeck

 

2001

Kenneth McCracken

 

2000

Cambridge Center for Creative Enterprise

 

1999

University of St.Thomas–Center for Family Enterprise

 

International Award

Award Recipients

2024

Peter Jaskiewicz

 

2023

Schlesinger Global Family Enterprise Case Competition (SG-FECC)

 

2022

Rodolfo Paiz

 

2021

IMD Global Family Business Center

 

2020

Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project

 

2019

STEP and the STEP Business Families Special Interest Group

 

2018

El Agamy Family

 

2017

Dennis Jaffe

 

2016

Judy Green

 

2015

Guillermo Salazar

 

2014

Mark Evans

 

2013

Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

2012

Leif Melin

 

2011

Panikkos Poutziouris

 

2010

Ernesto Poza

 

2009

Joseph H. Astrachan

 

2008

Randel Carlock and Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise at INSEAD

 

2007

Josianne Fahed Sreih

 

2006

Matti Koiranen

 

2005

Joyce & Robert Brockhaus and Albert Jan Thomassen

 

2004

Marta Vago

 

2003

Instituto de la Empresa Familiar

 

2002

Anthony Bogod and Peter Leach

 

2001

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

 

2000

Barbara Murray

 

FBR Awards

Best Article

Award Recipients

2024

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

 

2023

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

 

2022

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

 

2021

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

 

2020

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

 

2019

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

 

2018

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

 

2017

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

 

2016

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

 

2015

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

 

2014

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

 

2013

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

 

2011

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

 

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

 

2009

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

 

Outstanding Reviewer

Award Recipients

2024

Sarah Burrows

 

2023

Matthias Waldkirch

 

2022

Unai Arzubiaga

 

2021

Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh

 

2020

David Jiang

 

2019

Emanuela Rondi

 

2018

Hanqing Fang

 

2017

Josip Kotlar

 

2016

Evelyn Micelotta

 

2015

Francesco Barbera

 

2014

Nadine Kammerlander

 

2013

Aaron McKenny

 

2012

Alessandro Minichilli

 

2011

Justin Webb

 

2010

Andy Yu