Dates: June 2-6, 2016
Host University: Fundação Dom Cabral, Aloysio Faria Campus, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, BRAZIL

Co-hosts:

  • Teresa Roscoe, Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil; Conference Chair
  • Raj Mahto, University of New Mexico, USA; Academic Program Chair
  • Claudio G. Müller, University of Chile, Chile; Spanish / Portuguese, Program & Career Academy Chair

Highlights:

  • 69 Registrants, about 75 total including guests
  • 60 Institutions from19 countries represented
  • 87 submissions from 154 authors received
  • 97 reviewers
  • 49 posters presented including 16 in Spanish and Portuguese 
  • 37 scholars attended the English Career Academy and 27 attended the Portuguese / Spanish sessions. Presenters included Pramodita Sharma, John Perry, Kincy Madison, Manisha Singal, Ascensión Barros, Melquicedec Lozano, Horacio Arrendondo, Ana Cristina Gonzalez, and Luis Felipe Cisneros.
  • The three keynote speakers for the conference were:
    • Dr. Paulo Vincente dos Santos Alves, Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil
    • Dr. Allison Pearson, W.L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Management, Mississippi State University, USA
    • Dr. Pramodita Sharma, Professor and Sanders Chair in Family Business, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, USA
  • FERC in the news

Awards Presented:

Five categories of awards worth over $ 25,000 were presented:

  1. Best English Poster - $ 1500 each (Sponsored by the Foisie School of Business at WPI)
    • Differences between how family and nonfamily employees perceive their  company’s ethics and their consequences
      • John Perry
    • (In)visibility – a family business?
      • Henrietta Nilson
    • An Overview of Family Business Succession Research: A Bibliometric Study
      • Mihai Ibanescu, Luis-Felipe Cisneros-Martinez, Odette Lobato, Juan Niebla Zataráin & Naïma Cherchem.
  2. Best Portuguese Poster - $1500 (Sponsored by Rich Simmonds and MCS Family Wealth Advisors)
    • Política de Investimentos de Empresas Familiares Brazileiras Pos-Crise De 2008
      • Thiago Henrique Moreira Goes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. & Cláudio Antonio Pinheiro Machado Filho, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
  3. Best Spanish Poster - $1500 each (Sponsored by Familias Empresarias Management Consulting and MCS Family Wealth Advisors)
    • La Orientación Emprendedora como Variable Dependiente de la Cultura en las Empresas Familiares
      • Ramón Sanguino, Ascensión Barroso, Óscar González & María Buenadicha. Universidad de Extremadura, Spain.
  4. FERC Special Drawing - iPad Air 2  (128GB) (Sponsored by the Anderson School of Management at University of New Mexico)
    • Fábio Frezatti, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
  5. Family Owned Business Institute (FOBI) Awards - $ 17,500 (Sponsored by the Seidman College of Business)
    • FOBI Scholar in Residence ($10,000 + $2,500 expense reimbursement for a visit to GVSU)
      • Daniel Holt, Mississippi State University, USA
    • FOBI Scholar Grant ($5,000)
      • Mastering Product Innovation in Family Business: Integrating Theory and Practice
      • Josip Kotlar and Alfredo de Massis, Lancaster University, UK

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