Audencia Business School
The Rn'B Lab and the Chair Family Entrepreneurship and Society
Paper Development Workshop Series
Family Entrepreneurship
Issue N° 1: Family Entrepreneurship writing workshop
The Rn'B Lab and the Chair Family Entrepreneurship and Society of Audencia are happy to announce the first edition of its new series of research workshops. Audencia Business School is among Europe's top management schools and offers programmes that are regularly featured in the best international rankings. The school has prestigious international accreditations: EQUIS (EFMD) since 1998, AACSB since 2004 and Amba since 2010 for the full-time MBA and since 2012 for the Audencia Master in Management (Grande Ecole programme). The mission of the Chair Family Entrepreneurship and Society is to develop relevant research on family firms, as well as programmes for intra-family successors. The Chair also organizes several annual research and business meetings, conferences and networking events.
For the past decades, the fields of entrepreneurship, family, and family business research have been the object of numerous studies, regularly published and communicated at conferences and in scientific journals. While entrepreneurship, family, and family business have been studied as relatively separate domains with their own dedicated research conferences and academic journals, other scholars attempt to build research on their intersection: family entrepreneurship. Thus, the field of family entrepreneurship includes, yet goes beyond, that of family business.
This rapidly developing field is attracting much scholarly attention, as we can see by the research production to date (e.g. Bettinelli, Randerson, and Fayolle, 2014; Randerson, Bettinelli, Fayolle and Anderson, 2015; Randerson, Bettinelli, Fayolle and Dossena, 2016; Randerson, Dossena and Fayolle, 2016; Radu Lefebvre and Lefebvre, 2016; Dibrell, Bettinelli and Randerson in press), but also since 2012 a regular Professional Development Workshop and the annual meeting of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.
The first issue of the Audencia Paper Development Workshop Series is dedicated to Family Entrepreneurship. We would like to invite the authors interested in submitting to three different special issues to present their work-in-progress to the guest editors during a paper development workshop which will take place on January 24th – 25th, 2017. Please note that the La Folle Journée of Nantes (music festival) will take place from February 1st – 5th.
Special issues:
- "From Family to Families: Pushing Family Entrepreneurship Forward": Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Kathleen Randerson, Hermann Frank, Clay Dibrell, and Esra Memili. Deadline April 31st, 2017.
Please note that the goal of this workshop is to help authors improve their manuscripts before submission. As a consequence participation to the workshop does not guarantee publication and submission to each special issue is not restricted to workshop participants. Submission to the special issues will be done through the on-line submission system of each journal and each manuscript will be reviewed under the double blind process.
To guarantee a high quality of feedback, participation to this workshop will be limited to 22 papers per special issue. Selection criteria include pertinence, originality, and potential contribution (either theoretical or empirical). Participants will be asked to read the abstracts of their track.
Timeline:
- Before December 1st : submit extended abstract to Kathleen Randerson (kathleenranderson@yahoo?fr) (please indicate the track in your submission)
- December 15th : notification to authors
- December 16th- January 15th: inscription (no registration fee)
- January 24th and 25th: workshop.