This year marks the 10th annual Family Entrepreneurship PDW! Over the years we have discussed important questions such as family entrepreneurship education, novel methods epistemologies and ontologies, digitalization, or creating a better world, through formats including paper development workshops, pecha kucha, speed networking, or research pitches. Since our beginning, 80 different scholars have shared their expertise as guest speakers, panellists, round table moderators, or chairs.
This year's topic:
"Families and their businesses as politicized actors: Upstanding citizens or questionable characters?"
Our goal in this PDW is to augment discussions between Family Entrepreneurship scholars and those studying the role of business families and their enterprises as social and politicized actors. This PDW is designed to flush out the role played by the family, and their businesses, as politicized actors in the pursuit of their self-interests, and role in filling voids in different national institutional contexts. They are hailed as motors of economies regardless of the perverse consequences on the environment, political institutions, societies, and the proper functioning of the economy itself. Families as primary social units and their businesses as legal entities through which the family acts, may assume a wide spectrum of politicized roles, such as lobbying for preferential treatment (e.g., limiting tax liabilities to pay for reductions in pollution, encouraging national healthcare) at the potential detriment or benefit of all citizens.
This year's panellists and mediators:
Panellists: Tanusree Jain; Kathleen Randerson; Jette Knudsen; W. (Bill) Schulze; Andreas Scherer; Allan Discua-Cruz
Mediators: Clay Dibrell, Sheila Hanson, Matthia Waldkirch, Esra Memili
This year's format:
Our PDW will have two parts:
- In the first part, a panel of scholars chosen ad hoc will interact with our mediators to reflect on the political and institutional landscapes and to identify key behaviors and consequences.
- In the second part, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the panelists and general audience in a "open mic" session.
The PDW was designed to be thought and discussion provoking: we very much hope that your will be able to attend the session and chime into the discussion during the "open mic"!
Logistics:
Session 120: Friday, Aug 04, 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM, Room 310, Hynes Convention Center
Kathleen Randerson, Esra Memili, Clay Dibrell, Sheila Hanson, Matthia Waldkirch, Allan Discua-Cruz, Mariana Estrada-Robles
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Kathleen Randerson
Associate Professor
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