Family Owned Business Institute

The Family Owned Business Institute's mission is to promote, preserve, influence, and impact family businesses through quality academic research, curriculum, and information services. This web resource is designed to serve the needs of family businesses, researchers and scholars in the field of family business.

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Services:

Information resource. The website is a convenient online repository for information and research relevant to family-owned businesses. 

Networking and community outreach. Through its involvement with The Family Business Alliance and the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, the Institute contributes to the cross-sector cooperation that provides research, expertise, practice, and service delivery to family-owned businesses throughout West Michigan.

Research and scholarship funding. Family-owned businesses benefit from the research and curriculum development funded and supported by the Institute.

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  2012 FOBI Research Scholars Program

FOBI is open to receiving topics on any family business issue, but would like to especially encourage submissions aligned with the 2013 Family Enterprise Research Conference them of “Closing the gap between emerging and developed economies.” In addition, the Family Owned Business Institute encourages submissions on the following topics of interest: case studies on family business culture; entrepreneurship and innovation; family business recreation through innovation; longevity and resiliency in family owned businesses; and philanthropy in family owned businesses. A PDF of the official 2012 FOBI Research Scholars Call for Proposal is available here.


The deadline for the 2012 FOBI Research Scholars Program has passed. If you have any questions, please send us an email.