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The Awards available for the IFERA 2022 Annual Conference are:
BEST PAPER AWARD
Sponsored by: FOBI
Prize: 1.500 Euro
Nominated Papers:
Exploring Say-on-Pay Effectiveness in Listed Family Firms
Samuel Baixauli Soler; Gabriel Lozano-Reina; Gregorio Sánchez-Marín.
Welcome or not? A mixed methods study on artificial intelligence technologies in family-influenced firms
Jonas Soluk, Ivan Miroshnychenko, Satish Nambisan.
What Shapes a Family Constitution Towards a Role or Another ? Analysing Drivers Under the Regulatory Focus Theory
Raphaêlle Mattart; Fabrice Pirnay.
A subjective state of mind; examining the role of the psychological contract, emotions and human resource management in employment
Olivia O´Leary; Linda Murphy; Ultan Sherman; Stavroula Leka
The Family Business Paradox: How Family Business Groups Create Wealth and Inequality
Luciana Lima; Maria Jose Parada
BEST PAPER CONTRIBUTION TO PRACTICE
Sponsored by: WIFU Foundation
Prize: (1) 2.000 Euro (2) 1.500 Euro (3) 1.000 Euro
Nominated papers:
How Can Board’s Characteristics Boost the Internationalization of Family SMEs?
Claudia Pongelli, Antonio Majocchi, Jonathan Bauweraerts, Matteo Caroli, Salvatore Sciascia, Alain Verbeke
Choosing when to go undercover—how employees initiate and drive organizational change in family firms
Jana hermle-Boersig; Nadine Kammerlander; Matthias Waldkirch
Ownership Succession Intentions Affecting Earnings Management in Private Family Firms
Ine Umans, Maarten Corten
Conflict Origin and Management Mechanisms in Family Firms
Marco Mismetti. Cristina Bettinelli, Alfredo De Massis
Governing the Business Family: A Matter of Fit
Claudia Astrachan, Isabel Botero
BEST REVIEWER AWARD
Sponsored by: IFERA
Prize: 2023 Conference ticket
Nominated reviewers:
Johan Karlsson
Ivan Miroshnychenko
Hermann Frank
Ine Umans
Ignacio Requejo
BEST PAPER ON CONFERENCE THEME
Sponsored by: STEP Project Global Consortium
Prize: 1.000 Euro
Nominated papers:
Owners as Strategists – Four Types of Strategist Identity of Owner-Manager in Family Business
Constantin Zeif, Christina Hoon
Generativity in Entrepreneurs: The Role of Agentic and Communal Motivations in Legacy Creation
Matthew Fox, Jessica Paek; Katrin Burmesister-Lamp; Kimberly Wade-Benzoni
Navigating Treacherous Transitions: How Successor Commitment is Developed (and Stifled) in Family Firms
Roland Kidwell, John Cater; Marilyn Young
Managerial Capabilities and Strategic Renewal during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Generational View
Wunnam Basit Issah, Muhammad Anwar, Thomas Clauss; Sascha Kraus
BEST ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN FAMILY BUSINESS PAPER
Sponsored by: CYFE
Prize: 500 Euro
Nominated papers:
Same Same but Different”: Addressing Business Family Heterogeneity in Next Generation Founding Behaviors and New Venture Outcomes
Miriam Foerch; Dinah Isabel Spitzley; Reinhard Pruegl
Family new venture creation: The impact of external enablement characteristics on entrepreneurs’ decision to involve family members in new venture creation
J¡iyoung Kim
Continuing a Family Tradition as a Motive for Business: Effect on Expectation for Growth
Mahsa Samsani; Nuria Calvo; MAria Isabel Neira Gómez; Thomas Schott
BEST RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Sponsored by: IFERA
Prize: 500 Euro
Nominated proposals:
Providing wings to build roots? A configurational analysis of successors’ organizational identification during succession
Rolf Wilmes
Welcome to my house! Three pathways of identity formation leading to impact investing among the next generation of business-owning families
Jeanne Roche
Socially accepted roles of family business leaders
Valerie Nickel
Immortality and The Building of a Positive Legacy in The Family Business
Peter Trümmel