Conference Theme: Family Business: A Model for the New World? The IFERA 2021 particularly encourages rigorous and relevant submissions that advance our understanding of family firms and their role in world economies and societies.

Topics: - How do family dynamics influence innovation and entrepreneurial behavior of family firms? - How can family firms foster an efficient innovation/entrepreneurial process? - How do family firms deal with different types of innovation (product/service, process, business model, and...

Research questions: - How do family dynamics influence innovation and entrepreneurial behavior of family firms? - How can family firms foster an efficient innovation/entrepreneurial process? - How do family firms deal with different types of innovation (product/service, process, business model,...

The Conference invites papers that speak directly to the selected conference theme of “Narratives in Family Business”. In addition, we invite papers on all aspects of family business research, including but not limited to succession, leadership and governance, entrepreneurship, strategy,...

The Conference invites papers on all aspects of family business research, including but not limited to succession, leadership and governance, entrepreneurship, strategy, family relationships, emotions, family psychology and sociology, economics, finance, and accounting, as well as issues that...

The workshop topic “Involvement, Essence and Identity: Developing Core Constructs in Family Business Research” targets the in-depth discussion of original research papers focusing on different conceptual and empirical approaches to assessing the involvement of the family in the business, the...

The purpose of the conference is to advance family business scholarship by (1) serving as a platform for presentation of carefully crafted contributions seeking to find home in top-tier academic journals, (2) advancement of papers that need further development in order to make a meaningful...

IFERA@Americas 2011 Family Business Forum is a 4-day academic symposium that aims to share leading-edge research and best practice of family business administration, and explore policy initiatives to promote the importance of the issue to regional actors, and enable this unique business sector...

In celebration of the 10th IFERA conference we particularly welcome abstracts and proposals that consider long term perspectives on family business, to challenge our understanding and build on what we have learned from previous conferences. We welcome contributions from scholars at all stages of...