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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.

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]]> http://www.gvsu.edu/fobi/module-news-view.htm?newsId=C3F4A1C1-0CB1-7A78-2948A142C6A0D2EE 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.




]]> http://www.gvsu.edu/fobi/module-news-view.htm?newsId=EDD11187-BA3A-D635-82F93CA6421A2C43 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."

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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





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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.

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