Academic Program Co-Chairs

  • Eric Clinton, Dublin City University, IRELAND
  • Clay Dibrell, University of Mississippi, USA
  • Catherine Faherty, Dublin City University, IRELAND
  • Kincy Madison, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School, FRANCE
  • Don Neubaum, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Highlights

  • 70 attendees
  • Six categories of awards worth #13,500 were presented:
    • FERC Lifetime Influence and Impact Award for providing sustained and distinguished leadership toward the growth and development of family businesses and/or family business research and scholars.
      • Tom Lumpkin (University of Oklahoma, USA)
      • Michael A. Hitt (Texas A & M University, USA)
    • Family-Owned Business Institute (FOBI) Scholar in Residence ($13,500, sponsored by FOBI at Grand Valley State University). One individual selected each year to travel to Grand Valley State University and work with faculty, students, and community members on researching and teaching family business.
      • Nadine Kammerlander (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, GERMANY)
    • Danny Holt Best Doctoral Poster Award
      • You must leave for the benefit of the whole: A multi case study on the sensemaking of dismissals of long-term employees in family firms.
        • Reimar Belschner, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, GERMANY         
        • Nadine Kammerlander, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, GERMANY
  • Best Qualitative Poster Award
    • Continuity or destruction: The role of dyadic intergenerational exchange in the transmission of an entrepreneurial family’s legacy.
      • Rolf Wilmes, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, GERMANY     
      • Peter Truemmel, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ITALY
      • Nadine Kammerlander, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, GERMANY
      • Alfredo De Massis, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ITALY      
  • Best Quantitative Poster Award
    • Political corruption and family businesses. An empirical study in Tunisia.
      • Amira Hammouda, South Champagne Business School, FRANCE
      • Sami Basly, Paris Nanterre University, FRANCE
  • Best Poster Award
    • Whistleblowing in family firms: Power and justice dynamics.
      • Clarisse Lafleur, Bond University, AUSTRALIA
      • Tim Hasso, Bond University, AUSTRALIA
      • Francesco Barbera, Toronto Metropolitan University, CANADA

https://business.fau.edu/conferences/ferc-2023/ 
Call for Papers
Call for Doctoral Seminar
Call for Lifetime Achievement Award
FERC 2023 Poster