CFP: Workshop on Family Firms Management Research

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

CALL FOR PAPERS
5TH WORKSHOP ON FAMILY FIRMS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
HASSELT, BELGIUM, JUNE 7-9, 2009
Special theme "Resources and capabilities in family business"

"Family firms" are defined as family-owned or family managed firms. Only
papers dealing with at least one of these populations are welcomed

Four categories of research are of interest for the workshop:

1) Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the special theme
"Resources and capabilities in family business". Research that combines
the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) with family business issues
are encouraged. Special attention is given to a) papers that apply, fit
with and/or go beyond the RBV using family business contexts or b)
papers that use the RBV to understand how specific forms of 'capital'
(human capital, social capital, family capital, etc.) and their
combinations can explain family firm's performance, c) papers that fit
with and/or go beyond the dynamic capabilities approach using family
business contexts, and d) papers that explore the relations between
dynamic capabilities in family firms and other variables such as
knowledge, performance, entrepreneurship and culture.

2) Literature reviews focusing on the family business field:
state-of-the-art papers that allow discussing the knowledge already
acquired and the main challenges to address in future research. Review
papers can either a) focus on a main theme within the general family
business field, such as corporate governance, strategic management,
human resource management, corporate entrepreneurship, gender or
professional management etc or b) focus on the relevance of a specific
theory to the study of family firm, such as RBV, agency, social
networks, resource dependence, institutionalism, critical management,
culture or stewardship to only name a few.

3) Papers that use the family firm context for contributing to the
development of general management concepts and theories. Comparisons
between family and non-family firms, but also between different types of
family firms should belong to this category.

4) Empirical research focusing on a topics specific to family firms. For
instance:
- survival and performance over generations;
- financing and accounting issues in family firms.
- specific competitive advantages of family-firms;
- interactions between the family and the firm and their impact on
management;
- governance, decision-making and strategizing processes at the top;
- succession of ownership and leadership.

The cover page should be a separate sheet to include the following
information:
- The title of the proposal.
- Each author's name, his/her affiliation, address, telephone, fax and
email.

The body of each proposal is an abstract of 1,5-2 pages (cover page not
included).
All proposals should be single spaced, typed no smaller than 11 point
font.
In the abstract, four categories of information must be clearly
highlighted:
- the purpose / topic of the research
- the research method
- the theories used
- the contribution of the research

Deadline for abstracts: 26 February 2009
Author's notification: 13 March 2009
Deadline Final Papers: 7 May 2009

More info at
http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=647