Ilse Matser - Department of Family Business Management, Ethel Brundin, Mattias Nordqvist - Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership - CeFEO
Peter Jaskiewicz PhD Georges Romme
The EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research has become one of the most important venues for scholars to gather and discuss current research on family businesses in Europe and beyond. The 12th annual EIASM Workshop is organized and hosted by Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. The 12th workshop continues the tradition of successful academic events that have been created at the previous meetings in Jönköping (2005, 2007 & 2012), Nice (2006), Naples (2008), Hasselt (2009), Barcelona (2010), Witten (2011), Helsinki (2013), Bergamo (2014), and Lyon (2015). Like the previous workshops, the 12th EIASM workshop aims to attract a large number of established and emerging scholars from family business research and related fields to share their interest and perspectives on family firm management. The workshop will provide great opportunities for researchers to share their experiences, receive high value feedback on each other’s work and to form new research collaborations. Papers will be reviewed and discussed by colleague researchers working on similar themes. Additionally, review sessions will be organized for junior scholars aiming to further develop their work into journal articles.
The academic program will start in the morning of 13 May 2016 (at around 8.30 AM) and it will end in the afternoon of 14 May 2016 (at around 5 PM). A welcome reception will be organized on 12 May 2016, in the late afternoon.
Family business research has demonstrated great advancements over the last decades, yet many challenges remain to be solved. One of those challenges is the gap between theory and practice. Research has been largely deduced or has assumed human action from findings on macro and meso levels of economic and sociological inquiry (Johnson, Langley, Melin, & Whittington, 2007). Micro lenses are however little used. “Strategies are theorized as somehow disembodied” (Johnson et al., 2007). Additionally, there is a need to translate theoretical concepts such as family social capital and socio-emotional wealth into a useful vocabulary for practitioners. It is also important that the demographics of the business population are better represented in our research efforts by more focus on small and medium sized businesses. One important challenge in family business research is therefore to address the gap between theory and practice by moving theory to practice and vice versa. Different approaches to address the gap between theory and practice can be identified, including for example the design-based research approach which is used in entrepreneurship research (Van Burg & Romme, 2014). This approach works towards research synthesis (by combining findings and contributions from different research traditions) in terms of outcome patterns, social mechanisms and contextual conditions. Another approach is the engaged scholarship perspective (Van de Ven, 2007), which argues for collaboration and engagement with practitioners to help recognize our blind sights. Given their different perspectives and roles, practitioners can contribute by identifying problems, models, designs and potential solutions. The idea is not to agree with each other’s point of view, but to be knowledgeable about them. Examples of questions to be addressed are how to bridge the gap(s) between theories and practices of family business management, how does theory influence family business management practice and does the same apply in reverse, can the theory be ‘real’, how do we apply high level theory to practice and how effective is the ‘transfer’ to the level of management practice? What are, could, or should be the results and outcomes at business, family and owner level? - Evidence based family entrepreneurship While submission of papers related to the main theme are particularly encouraged, the workshop continues its tradition to accept papers relevant to any area of family firm management and which add value to the development of the family business research field, including:
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Abstract submission: 21 February 2016
Abstracts: A two (2) page proposal preceded by a cover page that contains the authors’ names, affiliation and the title of the paper should be uploaded using the link below. (Note that the cover page and the 2 page proposal should form one document). Procedure to upload your final paper (PDF only): * go on the EIASM web site (http://www.eiasm.org )
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