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Congratulations to the FBR Award Recipients
June 12, 2020
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ne of the hallmarks of FFI is its ongoing commitment to advance the field through publishing, practice, and research. In May, we were pleased to announce the 2020 Achievement Award Recipients and last week we announced the 2020 Academic Award Recipients. Today, we celebrate more outstanding contributions to the field by announcing the 2020 Family Business Review Award recipients. These awards will be presented at the FFI Conference in October.

Best Family Business Review Article
The Best FBR article award is given each year to recognize and celebrate the strongest contribution in FBR, highlighting FBR‘s pioneering and anchoring role in the field of family business studies.
Recipients of the Best Article Award for an article published in Family Business Review in 2019 are Linda Murphy, Jolien Huybrechts, and Frank Lambrechts for their article “The Origins and Development of Socioemotional Wealth Within Next-Generation Family Members: An Interpretive Grounded Theory Study.”
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Linda Murphy
University College Cork
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Jolien Huybrechts
Maastricht University
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Frank Lambrechts
Hasselt University
Thanks to Lansberg, Gersick & Associates (LGA) for its sponsorship of this award.
Best Family Business Review Article Honorable Mention
This year, two papers received Honorable Mention:
“Family Firm Values Explaining Family Firm Heterogeneity,” by Sabine Rau, Viktoria Schneider-Siebke, and Christina Günther
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Sabine Rau
University of Ottawa
ESMT
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Viktoria Schneider-Siebke
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
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Christina Günther
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
“Listening to the Heart or the Head? Exploring the ‘Willingness Versus Ability’ Succession Dilemma,” by Melanie Richards, Nadine Kammerlander, and Thomas Zellweger
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Melanie Richards
University of Bath
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Nadine Kammerlander
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
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Thomas Zellweger
University of St. Gallen
Outstanding Reviewer
The Outstanding Reviewer Award is given each year to the reviewer who has excelled in his or her reviewing for FBR, highlighting the importance of reviewers in the development and publication of scholarly research.
The recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award is David Jiang, who has received the FBR Outstanding Reviewer Award for his 2019 reviews.
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David Jiang
Elon University
Thanks to Resource Management, LLC for its sponsorship of this award.
FBR Excellent Reviewers
Unai Arzubiaga
Universidad del País Vasco

Giovanna Campopiano
Lancaster University

Joshua Daspit
Texas State University

Hangqing Fang
Missouri University of Science & Technology

Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh
University of St. Gallen

Roland Kidwell
Florida Atlantic University

Kristen Madison
Oklahoma State University

John Perry
Wichita State University

Sabine Rau
University of Ottawa
ESMT

Sohrab Soleimanof
Mississippi State University

Thanks to the FBR Award Committees
Best Article
Jeremy Short, chair
University of Oklahoma

Isabel C. Botero
University of Louisville

Kincy Madison
Oklahoma State University

Emanuela Rondi
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

FBR Outstanding and Excellent Reviewers
FBR Associate Editors
About FBR
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 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. Owned by the Family Firm Institute (FFI), FBR has an impact factor of 6.188 and is ranked 13/147 in Business according to the Journal Citation Reports®, 2019 release, a Clarivate Analytics product.
CALL FOR CASES
FFI is pleased to continue its collaboration with the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business and the STEP Project for the 2021 Family Enterprise Case Competitions (FECC). We invite you to submit a case for consideration at the January 12-16, 2021 event.

Submit your case by July 1, 2020.

Dates to Remember
JUN
15
FFI On Monday with Salvatore Tomaselli
Family + Business: Finding the Balance with the FiBMC
Register for 10:00AM
JUN
22
FFI On Monday with Ian Macnaughton and Paul Lermitte
Behavioral Interpersonal Finance: Actions for Intergenerational Engagement
Register for 10:00AM
Register for 5:00PM
JUN
29
FFI On Monday with James Olan Hutcheson
Behavioral Economics and CEO Decision Making in Family Firms
Register for 10:00AM
JUL
1
Last day to submit a case for the Family Enterprise Case Competition
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Previous Edition
June 05, 2020 cover
One of the hallmarks of FFI is its ongoing commitment to advance the field both through publishing, practice, and research. In May, we were pleased to announce the 2020 Achievement Award Recipients. Today, we celebrate more outstanding contributions to the field by announcing the 2020 Academic Award recipients. These awards will be presented at the FFI Conference in October.