Seminar on Family Business Research

This seminar is designed for doctoral-level students interested in learning more about theory and research on family business, and interested in crafting their own contribution to the field. We have structured the course into five distinct blocs, as follows : 1) Introduction; 2) Theories for Understanding Family Firms; 3) The Behavior of Family Firms; 4) Some Challenges Facing Family firms; 5) Researching Family Firms. Our overarching objectives for these sessions are as follows: - to expose students to the variety of theoretical perspectives and topic areas that family business scholars have focused upon in the past and at present; - to develop students' reflective and critical abilities in a research area that is still young, but reaching a certain maturity and legitimacy, now with three dedicated academic journals.