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CFP | Family and organization. Contributions to a theory of the family-influenced firm

  • 1.  CFP | Family and organization. Contributions to a theory of the family-influenced firm

    Posted 12-15-2018 10:14
    Call for Papers

    Family and organization. Contributions to a theory of the family-influenced firm

    Proponents:

    Steffen Roth, La Rochelle Business School, France, and Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius, Lithuania
    Luca Gnan, Tor Vergata Univerity, Italy
    Joseph H. Astrachan, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
    Heiko Kleve, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany

    Background

    Family businesses need to manage the differences between or merge the two worlds of family and business. Either challenge seems hard to meet. Despite decades of family business research and centuries of real-life family business experience, researchers remain confronted with definitional dilemmas (Klein, Astrachan, and Smyrnios, 2005; König, Kammerlander, and Enders, 2013; Binz Astrachan et al., 2018), while corresponding dilemmas regularly compromise the daily family business as well as its long-term survival. Thus, family-business dilemmas constitute serious concerns for family business success that appear even more critical when viewed in the backdrop of the fact that family businesses are the backbone of the majority of free-market economies.

    The proposition of a still pending theory of the family-influenced firm, therefore, would be a desirable objective (Astrachan, 2010; Rau, Astrachan, and Smyrnios, 2018). However, established ways of meeting this objective have ...

    The full Call for Papers is available for download here: https://wp.me/pvO07-1hr 

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    Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Steffen Roth

    Full Professor of Management, La Rochelle Business School, France
    Research Professor of Digital Sociology, Kazimieras Simonavičius University in Vilnius, Lithuania

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