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10th Family Enterprise Research Conference

"Managing the Human Capital of Family Businesses"

June 6 - June 8, 2014

Portland, OR, USA

http://ferc2014.org/

Call for Papers

Deadline: April 1, 2014

FERC is dedicated to developing a community of scholars interested in conducting research into understanding family firms and creating usable knowledge in this field. The conference of 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the inaugural conference held in Portland, Oregon in 2005.  While the past ten years have seen tremendous growth in the quantity and quality of scholarly research on family businesses, nearly all that research has focused on the decisions of, and the interactions within, the family unit.  Given the fact that family businesses are responsible for over half of the employment in countries around the globe, surprisingly little is known about the human resource practices of these firms.  Thus, this conference has three purposes in mind:

1.            Explore state of the art of research on the human resource practices in family business.

2.            Increase our understanding of how the use of HRM practices influences innovation, growth and performance in family firms.

3.            Provide opportunities for practitioners, family business leaders, professional advisors, and scholars to discuss the best human resource practices in family businesses.

With this in mind, the FERC 2014 Committee invites paper submissions in the theme – "Managing the Human Capital of Family Businesses"- and welcomes other research that can help us understand how family firms work, the challenges and advantages they have, and the uniqueness they bring to the economy.

Submission Guidelines

The format for submissions should be:

1.            Submissions consist of extended abstracts of no more than 5-pages, excluding references and tables.

2.            Microsoft Word Document, Double-Spaced pages

3.            One inch margins, 12-point Font

4.            APA 6th edition for References

5.            Manuscripts must be submitted in English

6.            Accepted papers will be presented in a poster format at the conference.

Please make sure the following questions are addressed in the abstract:

1.            What is the purpose of this project?

2.            What is the gap in the literature this project is hoping to address?

3.            Why is addressing this gap important?

4.            How does this project address the gap in the literature?

5.            What is the methodology used in this research project?

6.            What are some of the results?

7.            Implications of the findings for research and practice?

Only electronic abstracts will be accepted. Abstracts (limited to 5 double-spaced pages, excluding tables and references) will be accepted through April 1, 2014.  Please go to http://www.uvm.edu/business/openconf/openconf.php and follow the on-line instructions to submit your abstract. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Authors who submit their work prior to the April 1, 2014 deadline will receive a decision from the Program Committee within 2-3 week after their submission.

Awards

•             Family-Owned Business Awards by Grand Valley State University (go to http://www.gvsu.edu/fobi/research-scholars-program-12.htm to apply. Deadline is February 28, 2104).

•             Best Paper Awards ($3,500) by MCS Family Wealth Advisors

•             Doctoral Dissertation Awards

•             Best Poster on Family Business Education ($500) by Marquette University/Coleman Foundation

•             Best Practitioner Focused Paper Awards ($6,000) by Threshold Group

•             Best Paper in International Entrepreneurship & Family Business ($1,000) by ie-scholars network (ie-scholars.net)

Journals and Special Issues

The conference will be associated with the following special issues:

1) "Managing Human Resources in Family Businesses" in Human Resource Management

Co-editors: Donald O. Neubaum (Oregon State University) and James Hayton (Warwick Business School).

2) "Transgenerational Entrepreneurship: Learning from Long Lived Family Enterprises"

Special issue call for papers from Management Research Review

Guest Co-Editors: Frank Hoy (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Karla Mendoza-Abarca (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Donald O. Neubaum (Oregon State University), and Pramodita Sharma, (University of Vermont).

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=5074&PHPSESSID=icjq64j945ormktb3bbjrcjgj4

Authors interested in submitting manuscripts for consideration for these two special issues can submit drafts of their full papers to don.neubaum@bus.oregonstate.edu before the April 1, 2014 conference deadline.  Authors with particularly promising drafts may be invited to join a workshop session at the FERC conference to meet with the editors and reviewers and receive feedback on their submissions. Authors will then have until the call for papers deadline for each journal special issue to revise their manuscript.  If you have any questions, please contact don.neubaum@bus.oregonstate.edu

Donald O. Neubaum, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research

Oregon State University

College of Business

201E Bexell Hall

Corvallis, OR 97331

541-737-6036