FFI On Friday | August 03, 2018
Prepared Exclusively for FFI Members
FFI Family Business
Research Award
at EURAM 2018
In February, upon recommendation of an FFI Task Force on Academic Awards, the FFI board voted to extend its awards program in conjunction with the European Academy of Management (EURAM).
The Task Force, chaired by Dianne Welsh, worked with Massimo Bau of EURAM to define the nature and scope of the awards. These awards were presented by FFI board member Fabian Bernhard at the 2018 EURAM conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June.
These awards, presented as part of the EURAM Family Business Research Special Interest Group submissions, are:
Best Quantitative Paper Award
Owners and Ecological Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Family Ownership on Eco-Innovation
Yannick Bammens
Maastricht University
Paul Hünermund
Maastricht University
Dianne Welsh, Anneleen Michiels, Yannick Bammens, Massimo Bau, and Fabian Bernhard
Best Qualitative Paper Award
Advancing Family Business Research Through Organizational Identity and Sensemaking: A Multi-Level Model of Family Firm Organizational Identity Construction by Non-Family Members
Julia Vincent-Ponroy
IPAG Business School
Patrick Lê
Neoma Business School
Camille Pradies
EDHEC Business School
Dianne Welsh, Anneleen Michiels, Julia Vincent-Ponroy, Massimo Bau, and Fabian Bernhard
In addition to the requirements of EURAM, the following FFI requirements were applied:
- The manuscript shall not have been submitted to a journal at the time it is submitted to EURAM.
- The winners are encouraged to submit the award-winning paper to Family Business Review for publication consideration.
The award winner papers each come with a prize of:
- One-year membership in FFI
- One complimentary registration to the FFI 2018 conference in London, October 24-26.
- Cash prize of €500
Thanks to the Task Force on Academic Awards
Patricia Annino
Rimôn,P.C.
Fabian Bernhard
EDHEC Business School
David Harvey
DJΛH Partners
Peter Jaskiewicz
University of Ottawa
Don Neubaum
Florida Atlantic University
Carlo Salvato
Bocconi University
Dianne Welsh
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, chair
About the European Academy of Management
EURAM is a learned society founded in 2001. It aims at advancing the academic discipline of management in Europe. With members from 49 countries in Europe and beyond, EURAM has a high degree of diversity and provides its members with opportunities to enrich debates over a variety of research management themes and traditions.
Summer Reading
“The House of Morgan” by Ron Chernow
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Ron Chernow was a keynote speaker at the 1999 FFI Conference in Chicago.
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