Best Doctoral Dissertation
The 2024 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award is generously sponsored by the Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont.
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- All materials must be submitted in English and as PDFs.
- All required fields on the online submission form must be completed and uploaded as directed.
- All materials submitted must redact all references that would allow for the identification of the author, including the author’s name, the name(s) of the advisor(s), the dissertation committee members, and any affiliated academic institution(s).
- Submitted materials must include:
- Dissertation, which can be a monograph or multi-article dissertation
- One page abstract of no more than 120 words
- Summary of no more than 20 pages
Submission Deadline: Applications for award submissions open on January 1 of the award year. The deadline for submissions for awards is April 1 of the award year.
Applicants will be notified of the decision in writing by June 15 of the submission year. Winners are expected to be present at the FFI annual conference to receive the award.
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
