CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ADMINISTRATION
(RAC – Revista de Administração Contemporânea)
ISSN 1982-7849 (online issue)
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FAMILY BUSINESSES
Submission deadline: December 15th, 2018
Special issue resubmission deadline: June 1st, 2019
Notification of acceptance to Special Issue: August 15th, 2019
Special Issue publication: September 2019
GUEST EDITORS:
Aureliano Bressan (UFMG, Brazil)
Jairo Laser Procianoy (UFRGS, Brazil)
Eduardo Schiehll (HEC Montréal, Canada, and Aalto School of Business, Finland)
Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro (University of Navarra, Spain, and USP, Brazil)
SCOPE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE:
Family Businesses drive global economic growth and employment. The Global Family Business Index, published by Forbes.com with the support of St. Gallen University and EY, highlights the important role that the top 500 family businesses play in the world economy.
For instance, in 2013 these 500 large family businesses employed 21 million people – more than 66% of their non-family business counterparts and contributed US$6.5t to global GDP.
They also represent 33% of US and 40% of German and French companies, with an even more relevant role in emerging markets, comprising 55% of large companies in India and Southeast Asia, and 60% of Latin America's GDP.
In Emerging Markets, family businesses account for more than 50% of the largest companies, with growth rates that are larger than their non-family business counterparts, even though it comes at the expense of lower profitability, with regulations, institutions and cultural issues playing important roles2.
Conflicts of interest between family members at the transition stage, or even between owners and managers, are some of the challenges faced by this type of organization. And, given the fact that 40% of family firms do not have a succession plan, and only 12% of these enterprises survive after the third generation, a special issue on Corporate Governance in Family Businesses is a relevant research opportunity for academics in different fields of research in Administration.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to the debate regarding new strategies and policies focused on Corporate Governance in Family Businesses, with a multidisciplinary perspective including organizational behavior, as well as entrepreneurship, accounting, finance, and strategy.
With this Special Issue, the Journal of Contemporary Administration (RAC), and Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa (IBGC), explicitly solicit articles and cases that discuss the role of family businesses, viewed as social and sustainable organizations, and their corporate governance challenges. Studies of quantitative and/or qualitative nature will be appreciated, as well as the use and integration of different theoretical perspectives, such as agency theory, stakeholder theory, resource dependency theory, among others.
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Authors are invited to submit a full article that conforms to RAC guidelines on or before December 15, 2018, through the journal website <https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rac-scielo> (please select option SI Corporate Gov Family Bus in the first step of submission). Full papers and cases must be 8,000 words or less in length. Submission must be made through the ScholarOne system. By submitting a paper, authors are certifying that the submission is an original, unpublished work and that it is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere in whole or part. It should comply with the journal policy on plagiarism and self-plagiarism.
The papers will be screened initially by Guest Editors. Articles suitable for evaluation will then be submitted to a double-blind peer review. Eventual acceptance is subject to the authors successfully addressing the comments of the referees and co-editors. All papers must be written in English. Please send any related questions to Aureliano Bressan (bressan@face.ufmg.br).
THEMES AND TOPICS:
Succession in Family Business
Professionalization of Family Business Management
Functions and Compositions of Boards in Family Businesses
Economic and Social Value Creation in Family Business
Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Family Business
Identity and Organizational Culture in Family Business
Gender Relations in Family Business
Family Governance in SMEs
Function and Quality of Financial Reports in Family Companies
Capital Structure and Financing in Family Business
REFERENCES
Bain, D. (2015). The top 500 family businesses in the world. Retrieved from https://familybusiness.ey-vx.com/pdfs/182-187.pdf
Bhalla, V., Orglmeister, C., & Tong, D. (2016, September 8). What makes family businesses in emerging markets so different? BCG Perspectives. Retrieved from https://on.bcg.com/2om1PKi
PwC Global. (2017). The Family business sector in 2016: Success and succession. Retrieved from https://pwc.to/2qOBVPK
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