6th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research
Barcelona, Spain – June 6-8, 2010
Culture and values
Chairs
Luisa Alemany and Alberto Gimeno
ESADE Business School, Spain
Leif Melin and Mattias Nordqvist
CeFEO, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
Keynote Speakers
W. Gibb Dyer, Jr.
Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, USA
Franz Kellermanns
Mississippi State University, USA
Co-organizer
ESADE Business School, Spain
Call for papers
Family firms are defined as family-owned and/or as family managed firms. As such, papers dealing with at least one of these populations are welcomed. The main categories are:
Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the special theme “Culture and Values in Family Businesses”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:- The role of culture in family businesses
- Culture and performance
- Cultural diversity
- Family culture vs. business culture
- Culture and entrepreneurial behavior in family firms
- Culture and strategy
- Culture and governance
- Values and competitive advantage
- Transmission of values
- Cultural and value change
- Culture as a resource, familiness
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.
Papers on other topics of relevance, which may add value to the field of family businesses.
Read more here.