Philipp Jaufenthaler is a postdoctoral marketing researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His main research focus is on investigating stakeholders’ perceptions of and responses to family business brands across various contexts.

Oliver Koll is Professor of Marketing the University of Innsbruck. His research interests include the conceptualization and benefits of stakeholder marketing, methods to evaluate brand equity, and brand loyalty determinants. He also consults B2B and B2C companies on these topics. He serves on the Advisory Board of AiMark, an organization supporting academic research based on international panel data.

Maximilian Lude received his doctorate from Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship (FIF) at Zeppelin University, Lake Constance, Germany. He is also Managing Director and Co-Founder of Philoneos, a German-based consultancy for family firms. His research bridges marketing and family business research by exploring the consequences of signaling the family firm background to various stakeholders.

Reinhard Prügl is Professor of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship and Scientific Director of the Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Zeppelin University. His research focuses on possibilities and tensions arising from the interplay between an enterprising family and a family firm and its consequences for decision-making. His interests include empirical research on family firm branding, succession and business transfer, as well as entrepreneurship and innovation over generations from the perspective of different family- and non-family stakeholder groups.

Philipp Sieger is Associate Professor for Strategic Entrepreneurship at the University of Bern. In his research and teaching activities, he focuses on different topics in the context of entrepreneurship and family firms, such as new venture creation and corporate entrepreneurship. He has published papers in renowned journals such as JMS, JBV, ETP, SEJ, and FBR. Also, he is Associate Editor at FBR and CEO of the global GUESSS project.
 
Naveed Akhter is Assistant Professor in Business Administration at the Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden and member of the Centre for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO). His research interests are related to strategy and entrepreneurship with a particular interest on family business portfolios, enduring entrepreneurship and exit strategies. He published in SEJ, JSBM, and HR.
 
Francesco Chirico is a Professor of Strategy and Family Business at Macquarie University & Jönköping University. His research focuses on the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship with a special focus on family firms. His research work explores resource management processes and acquisition and divestiture strategies that affect the realization of competitive advantage, innovation and value creation in organizations. His research has been published, among others, in JOM, JIBS, JMS, ETP, SEJ, OS, HR and FBR.

Thomas Dorsch was a doctoral student at the School of Business and Economics at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. As part of his dissertation, he investigated the succession process and innovation behaviors of family firms. Thomas is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc.’s Berlin Office.
 
Peter Jaskiewicz is a Full Professor and University Research Chair at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. He is the Founder and Academic Director of the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute (FELI), an Associate Editor of the Family Business Review, and a best-selling book author. In his research, teaching and advising, Peter focuses on how to empower the next generation in enterprising families and enable family enterprise longevity.
 
James G. (Jim) Combs is the Martha Schenck Della Phillips Chair of American Private Enterprise at the University of Central Florida. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Research interests include franchising, family business, meta-analysis, and corporate governance.
 
Torsten Wulf is a Professor of Strategic and International Management at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Center for Strategy and Scenario Planning at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in Leipzig, Germany. In his research and teaching, Torsten focuses on strategic decision making in family firms as well as on decision-making tools, such as scenario planning, for dealing with uncertainty in firms’ environments.