Congratulations to the 2025 FBR Award Recipients

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Congratulations to the 2025 FBR Award Recipients

June 06, 2025

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ne of the hallmarks of FFI is its ongoing commitment to advance the field through publishing, practice, and research. Today, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Family Business Review Awards. These awards will be presented at the 2025 Global Conference in October.

Best Family Business Review Article

Recipients of the Best Article Award for an article published in Family Business Review in 2024 are Kajsa Haag, Hanna Almlöf, Marina B. Madsen, and Mette Neville, for their article “Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of ‘the Ownership Contract,’” which appeared in the June 2024 issue of Family Business Review.

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Kajsa Haag

Jönköping University

Hanna Almlöf

Linköping University

Marina B. Madsen

FSR – Danish Auditors
Aarhus University

Mette Neville

Aarhus University

Thanks to Lansberg Gersick Advisors (LGA) for sponsorship of this award.

Outstanding Reviewer

The recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award is Unai Arzubiaga, who has received the award for his 2024 reviews.

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Unai Arzubiaga

University of the Basque Country

Thank you to D. Randolph Waesche for sponsorship of this award.

FBR Excellent Reviewers

Sarah Burrows

Queen’s University

Eric Clinton

Dublin City University

Rocki-Lee DeWitt

University of Vermont

Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh

Jönköping University

David Jiang

Elon University

Thanks to the FBR Award Committees

Best Article

Donald. O. Neubaum, chair
Yannick Bammens
Sarah Burrows
Emanuela Rondi
Roy Suddaby

Outstanding and Excellent Reviewers

Donald Neubaum, FBR Editor
FBR Associate Editors

About FBR

The Impact Factors for Family Business Review remain strong, with a two-year impact factor of 9.9 and a ranking of 11/304 journals in the “Business” category.

Published as a refereed journal since 1988, Family Business Review (FBR) is the leading scholarly publication devoted exclusively to exploration of the dynamics of family-controlled enterprise, including firms ranging in size from the very large to the relatively small. FBR, which is owned by the Family Firm Institute (FFI), is focused not only the entrepreneurial founding generation, but also on family enterprises in the 2nd and 3rd generation and beyond, including some of the oldest companies in the world. In addition, the journal publishes interdisciplinary research on families of wealth, family foundations and offices.

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Previous Edition

The GEN 503 and 504 courses for the Advanced Certificates in the Global Education Network (GEN) certificate program have just concluded, and the capstone webinars for GEN 502 will be held on June 24 and 25. Thanks to the Q2 faculty and congratulations to the Q2 graduates, who will be featured in a July issue of FFI on Friday.