The Best Doctoral Dissertation Award

The Best Doctoral Dissertation Award is given to encourage and recognize outstanding academic achievement in the field of family business study. It is awarded annually after a blind, peer review of all submissions. Dissertations may be on any topic of relevance to the understanding and appreciation of family firms and/or family firm advisors. Dissertations must have been written as part of a graduate course of study at an accredited academic institution and defended in the last calendar year.

Award: Cash prize of $2,500 plus one-year membership in FFI and complimentary registration to the 2018 Annual Global Conference in London.

• Submissions for Best Doctoral Dissertation can be made here. Deadline is March 1, 2018
• For more information and a complete list of past recipients go here.

Committee chair: Dianne Welsh, PhD

The Best Unpublished Research Paper Award

The Best Unpublished Research Paper Award is awarded annually after a blind, peer review of all submissions. Papers may be on any topic of relevance to the understanding and appreciation of family firms and/or family firm advisors. The manuscript should not have been submitted to a journal at the time it is submitted for the award.

Award: Cash prize of $2,500 plus one-year membership in FFI and complimentary registration to the 2018 Annual Global Conference in London.

• Submissions for Best Unpublished Research Paper can be made here. Deadline is April 15, 2018
• For more information and a complete list of past recipients go here.

Committee chair: Peter Jaskiewicz, PhD

Some interesting statistics about the awards

• First dissertation award (1989) presented to Colette Dumas, who is now a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Suffolk University.
• Most recent dissertation award (2017) presented to Hanqing Fang and David Jiang.
• First unpublished research paper award (1989 (presented to Stewart Malone, who is now associate professor emeritus at the University of Virginia.
• Most recent unpublished research award (2017) presented to Patricio Duran, Pascual Berrone, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Pursey Heugens, Tatiana Kostova, and Marc van Essen.
• Countries represented by the winners of these awards include Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and United States.
• Two dissertation winners are currently members of the GEN faculty—Frank Barbera (2014) and Annika Hall (2004).