Michael Gusenbauer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Innovation Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He received his PhD from Johannes Kepler University Linz, a diploma from WU Vienna, and has previously held postdoctoral positions at the Technical University of Munich (GER) and the University of Innsbruck. Michael’s research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Cognition and Emotion, Research Synthesis Methods, and Scientometrics.
 
Nina Schweiger is a PhD student working in the Department of Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In her research, she focuses on innovation management and the strategic behavior of family firms.

Kurt Matzler is professor of strategic management at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is academic director of the Executive MBA program at MCI in Innsbruck. Kurt has published numerous academic papers and several books, among others he is co-author of the German edition of The Innovator’s Dilemma (2011) and Open Strategy (MIT Press, 2021). With more than 28,000 citations in Google Scholar, Kurt belongs to the top 50 strategy researchers in the world.
 
Julia Hautz is professor of strategic management at the University of Innsbruck. In her research, Julia focuses on strategy and innovation. In particular, she explores corporate diversification and innovation strategies and openness of strategy processes in the context of new digital technologies. Her research has been published in leading academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Global Strategy Journal, International Journal of Management Reviews, Long Range Planning, and Harvard Business Review.

Christina Hoon is a professor of family business management in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research focuses on family businesses to explore strategy, identity theory, leadership and succession, and theorizing in qualitative inquiry She has published in leading academic journals including British Journal of Management, Journal of Family Business Strategy, and Organizational Research Methods. She is the academic director of the Family Business Institute (iFUn) at Bielefeld University.

Julia Brinkmann received her PhD from the Faculty of Economics and Management at Bielefeld University, Germany where she is an adjunct member of the Family Business Institute. She is interested in exploring family businesses with a special focus on non-family employees. In her research she focuses on identity, succession, and the strategic behavior of family firms.

Alina Baluch is a senior lecturer in management at the School of Management, University of St Andrews, UK. Her work focuses on employment relations in the nonprofit sector and uses qualitative research approaches to explore the experience of work in a variety of settings such as front-line care work, nonprofit-business partnerships, philanthropic organizations, and more recently family-owned businesses. Her research also focuses on theorizing in qualitative research methods.

Maura McAdam is a professor of management and director of entrepreneurship at Dublin City University. She is currently a visiting professor at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh and has held visiting professorships at Babson College (USA) and Nottingham University (UK). Her research which explores the influence of gender and diversity on entrepreneurial behavior has been published in top rated North American and UK journals across a range of theoretical disciplines. Maura is an engaged thought leader and regular media commentator on women’s entrepreneurship and family business.
 
Eric Clinton is an associate professor at DCU Business School (Ireland) and a visiting professor at Babson College (USA). His research interests are primarily concerned with strategic entrepreneurial practices in family firms. Eric’s work on family firms is regularly published in leading scholarly journals including Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Management Studies, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. In 2022, Eric was awarded the Family-Owned Business Institute (FOBI) scholar-in-residence fellowship.
 
William B. Gartner is the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His family entrepreneurship scholarship focuses on the effect of business family legacies on subsequent entrepreneurial activities and the influence of parenting roles and styles on entrepreneurial choice and persistence.     
 
Eleanor Hamilton is professor of entrepreneurship in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at Lancaster University Management School. She served as director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (2002-2008), Director of Regional Affairs (2008-2016), Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies (2009-2012) and Associate Dean for Enterprise, Engagement and Impact (2012-2015). Her research interests are entrepreneurship and small business. Her work specifically focuses on family businesses and examines aspects of gender, narrative, and learning.

Kajsa Haag is an assistant professor in business administration at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden. She is involved in research, education, and societal engagement in the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) at JIBS. Her research interests include succession and strategic renewal of family firms, ownership dynamics, family enterprise foundations and the role of family firms for sustainable development.
 
Leona Achtenhagen is a professor in business administration focused on entrepreneurship and business development at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). She is the Director of the Media, Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) and a member of the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) at JIBS. Her research interests include family business development as well as entrepreneurship in different types of contexts.
 
Julia Grimm is an assistant professor at Stockholm University, as well as a research affiliate at Jönköping International Business School and the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership. Julia’s research centers around questions of private governance and collective action among different stakeholder groups in the context of global supply chains, with a focus on framing and paradox theory, as well as organizational categories. Julia is a qualitative researcher and works primarily with longitudinal process data.

Christina Lubinski is professor of history at Copenhagen Business School and academic director of the Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Leadership unit at the Department of Business Humanities and Law. Her research focuses on global entrepreneurship, temporality, and family business governance in historical perspective. Since 2023, she is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business History.
 
William B. Gartner is the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a visiting professor of entrepreneurship at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His family entrepreneurship scholarship focuses on business family legacies on subsequent entrepreneurial activities and the influence of parenting styles on entrepreneurial choice and persistence.

Luca Manelli is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano and received his PhD in Management Engineering from the same institution. His research interests are at the intersection of family business, entrepreneurship, and organization theory. In particular, he looks at how business families leverage intangible resources, such as history, identity, and purpose, to renew themselves across generations.
 
Vittoria Magrelli is an assistant professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Economics and Management), working at the Centre for Family Business Management. Her research interests currently focus on the interrelations among organizational temporality, aesthetics and legacy in the context of family-owned firms, family-owned foundations, and consulting firms. She received her PhD from Lancaster University.
 
Josip Kotlar is associate professor of strategy, innovation and family business at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His research focuses on understanding how family owners shape the strategic goals, governance and resources of the firm to support the creation of sustainable competitive advantages across generations. He is currently an associate editor of Family Business Review and the president of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA).
 
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli is full professor of innovation management at the Politecnico di Bari. He is the author of more than 130 international publications and three international books on the topic of innovation management and technology strategy. Finally, his studies have been awarded the Nokia Siemens Network Award in Technology Management for Innovation into the Future and he has been recently included in the Clarivate list of highly cited researchers.
 
Federico Frattini is full professor of strategy and innovation at Politecnico di Milano and dean of POLIMI Graduate School of Management. His research area is strategic management of innovation and technology management and on these topics, he has written extensively and published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.