Grand Valley: Family Owned Business Institute News

Sweden Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership Seeking Doctoral Students

2012-05-21 00:00:00.0

Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) is one of four schools within Jönköping

University. The School offers study programmes and courses in business administration,

economics, informatics and law with an international focus. Research at JIBS focuses on

entrepreneurship, business renewal and internationalisation. JIBS has some 2,000 registered

students, 200 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 180 million. For more

information please visit www.jibs.se

Thanks to a generous donation from Carl-Olof and Jenz Hamrin Foundation and as a part of our

growth strategy we seek up to three doctoral students to our Center for Family Enterprise and

Ownership ( CeFEO). CeFEO is an internationally leading research center for family business

and ownership issues; currently the largest in the world and ranked first in Europe and fourth

globally for research productivity. CeFEO was established in 2005 and has grown into a

genuinely interdisciplinary and international research center with more than 25 senior and junior

researchers. CeFEO is committed to “Academic Excellence and Practical Relevance” and active

in the areas of research, education and outreach activities to practitioners. Please visit

www.cefeo.se for more information about our history and activities.

WORKING TASK / QUALIFICATION

As a doctoral student at CeFEO and JIBS we offer you a full-time employment. Most of your

time will be devoted to your doctoral studies but you also will be able to gain experience in

teaching and administrative tasks. We seek candidates who has a strong wish to conduct high

level of academic scholarship on important topics within the fields of family business and/or

ownership (incl. corporate governance) that are of high theoretical, empirical and practical

relevance.

Eligible applicants must have completed their bachelor or master in a relevant discipline. The

main language of research and teaching at JIBS is English. You must be fluent in both written

and spoken English to be eligible to our doctoral program. Skills in other languages, including

Swedish is considered an advantage. An international outlook as well as prior research, teaching and/or professional experience are also considered advantageous, as is an ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders in and around the university environment.

INFORMATION

For more information about the positions, please contact Professor Leif Melin [2012 FOBI Scholar] leif.melin@jibs.hj.se, Director of CeFEO or Professor Mattias Nordqvist [2011 & 2007 FOBI Scholar] mattias.nordqvist@jibs.hj.se, Co-director of CeFEO.

Professor Nordqvist can also answer general question regarding the PhD program in Business Administration at JIBS in his role as Associate Dean for Doctoral Programs. Union representatives are Duncan Levinsohn (SACOs) saco.ihh.@ihh.hj.se and Barbara Eklöf (ST) st.ihh@ihh.hj.se. Contact phone number for them all is +46 36 10 10 00

APPLICATION

Please submit:

A letter-of-intent explaining why you apply to the position, what you expect from the doctoral program and why you are interested in CeFEO and JIBS, and in doing research on family business and/or ownership issues.

A preliminary research plan, expressing your present research interest in the field.

A personal description of yourself.

CV and attested documents (transcript, diploma).

Copy of your Bachelor and Master Theses and other publications.

Announcement of the GVSU Center for Leadership & Innovation

2012-05-03 00:00:00.0

GVSU is pleased to announce a new offering from the Seidman College of Business – The Center for Leadership & Innovation. This new initiative will be directed to public and private companies, including Family Owned Businesses. The focus of this new and exciting Center will be for leadership and innovation development for mid-to-upper level and high potential managers and executives. The Center will utilize resources both outside and within the University and will collaborate and engage the local business community. The Center will focus on performance and results, tools to translate education into ethical action, technology-based platforms to deliver content, integration with real-world business challenges, and instruction from battle-hardened executives. The objective will be to develop participants with the emotional fortitude and practical tools to handle the ever-increasing challenges of today’s business environment.

Paul M. Heroman will lead the start-up phase, which will include the implementation and development of the Center. Mr. Heroman has held leadership roles in both for-profit and non-profit organizations, including his own consulting practice. He brings strong operational and business management experience, and last year completed the Executive MBA program at the University of Notre Dame, graduating with honors. Recently, he has been involved with several start-up entities and participated in the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s “Shifting Gears Program.” He is very active in the Rotary Club of Grand Rapids East and resides, with his wife Barbara, in Grand Rapids.

Contact Information:

Paul M. Heroman, Project Coordinator

616-331-7206

heromanp@gvsu.edu

2012 FOBI Research Scholars Program

2012-01-26 00:00:00.0

2012 FOBI Research Scholars Program

The Family Owned Business Institute invites applicants to submit research proposals for the 2012 FOBI Research Scholars Program. This program is very competitive and provides four to six $5000 research awards. Submission Deadline is March 2, 2012. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please visit the Scholars link on the top of the page to learn more, or click here.

West Michigan Investors Education Summit

2011-12-01 00:00:00.0

International Submission Call for Research Assistants

2011-10-18 00:00:00.0

Tony Fang, PhD, Professor of International Business at Stockholm University, Sweden has the pleasure of recruiting 40 young research assistants to participate in his research project “Yin Yang – A New Perspective on Culture” during 2012-2013. The project is funded by a research grant from Stockholm University School of Business with a number of activities planned including a sponsored travel to Sweden for an intensive global cross-cultural management workshop in the middle of 2012. The 40 young research assistants are expected to come from 40 different countries each of who meet the following criteria:

1. You are currently a PhD candidate or have recently obtained a PhD within a social science discipline (e.g.,management, business, communication, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, English literature,and so on); ideally you are under 35 years of age.

2. You have a burning interest in society, culture, human behaviour, language, political institutions, international relations, international business, and globalization.

3. You have intimate indigenous knowledge of your country/national culture and you of course speak the main local language as your mother tongue.

4. You have very good command of English and you have a proven record of conducting academic research.

5. You are expected to come from one of the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China,Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy,Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa,South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA.

Applications with the following materials shall be submitted to yingyang@fek.su.se no later than November 1st, 2011.

For the full version of the submission guidelines please click here.

2011 FOBI Scholars

2011-06-29 00:00:00.0

The mission of the Family Owned Business Institute (FOBI) at Grand Valley State University is to promote, preserve, influence, and impact family businesses through quality academic research, curriculum, and information services. As part of its research mission, FOBI created the Research Scholars Program.

The purpose of the Research Scholars program is to encourage faculty and doctoral candidates to conduct new, high quality research with an emphasis on family business dimensions. Research may involve a broad range of issues and methodologies including theoretical, empirical, and case studies.

FOBI Research Scholars are required to disseminate the results of their research. viable methods include meetings, seminars, publications, and the classroom. In addition, Scholars are expected to convert the research into a publishable, refereed journal article with appropriate reference to FOBI for its support.

Four to six grants are awarded each year. The winning proposals each receive a stipend of $5000. This year, FOBI formed an alliance with the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC) to jointly recognize FOBI Scholars as part of the annual FERC Conference which took place in Grand Rapids, Michigan May 6-8th, 2011.

For 2011, the Research Scholar Program received twenty-six proposals representing the work of more than fourty-five scholars. The quality of the proposals receieved for the 2011 Research Scholar Program superseded previous years, making the decision to award the only four proposals difficult and exhilarating. The 2011 FOBI Scholars were announced at the International Gala Dinner on May 7th, 2011 during the FERC 2011.

2011 FOBI Research Scholars

Mahendra Joshi (Grand Valley State University) for his proposal titled "Family Business Identity and Information Exploration."

Dianne Welsh (University of North Carolina - Greensboro), Kirby Rosplock (GenSpring Family Offices), Juan Roure (University of Navarra, IESE),and Juan Luis Segurado (University of Navarra, IESE) for their proposal titled "Family Offices and the Future."

Jon Carr (Texas Christian University), Daniel Holt (Mississippi State University), and Allison Pearson (Mississippi State University) for their proposal titled "Measuring Performance in Family Businesses: The State of the Art and Road Map for Advancing Family Business Research and Practice."

Borje Böers (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) and Mattias Nordqvist (Jönköping International Business School, Sweden) for their proposal titled "Understanding Hybrid Identity Organizations - The Case of Publicly listed Family Businesses."

Family Business Review - Editor's Choice Award

2011-01-31 00:00:00.0

Family Business Review - Editor's Choice Award

Congratulations to Vipin Gupta and Nancy Levenburg! Their article, A Thematic Analysis of Cultural Variations in Family Businesses: The CASE Project, was one of six best review articles awarded the Family Business Review Editor's Choice Award.

"We are pleased to present the following featured Editor's Choice articles, specially selected to highlight the journal's most noteworthy manuscripts." - Family Business Review

Family Business Review (FBR), a refereed journal published quarterly since 1988, is a scholarly publication devoted exclusively to exploration of the dynamics of family-controlled enterprise, including firms ranging in size from the very large to the relatively small.

Once again congratulations on this achievement!

The article can be viewed on the Family Business Review website:

Abstract Full Text (pdf)

Family Business Review 2010 23:155-169; doi:10.1177/0894486510366255

2011 FOBI Research Scholars Program

2010-12-21 00:00:00.0

2011 FOBI Research Scholars Program

The Family Owned Business Institute invites applicants to submit research proposals for the 2011 FOBI Research Scholars Program. This program is very competitive and provides four to six $5000 research awards. Submission Deadline is March 4, 2011. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please visit the Scholars link on the top of the page to learn more, or click here.