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ABOUT US.
Our Mission and Vision
WHO ARE WE.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) for family enterprising is an initiative launched to explore entrepreneurship practices within family businesses.
Our global leaders from leading academic institutions and business families are engaged in research, teaching, and practice-oriented activities to generate solutions that have immediate application for family leaders.
With an aim to generate cutting edge research, we offer best-practice solutions to sustain entrepreneurial families across generations.
OUR MISSION.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) is committed to collaboratively research transgenerational entrepreneurship in order to produce highly relevant, applied research which makes a tangible difference to the business families and their stakeholders around the world.
OUR VISION.
To be a leading global family business research project with an international research reputation towards producing insights that are of relevance to researchers, family business, stakeholders and the practice community at large.
OUR LEADERS.
Dr. Andrea Calabrò
Academic Director at Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC)
Full Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship at IPAG Business School and Bocconi University MI Italy
Dr. Ana Gonzalez
SPGC Board of Directors Member and Director, Family Owned Business Institute Assistant Professor, Management Department Seidman College of Business Grand Valley State University
Dr. Albert James
STEP Project Global Consortium: Board Member and Lead Editor of the SPGC Case Book 2025. Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nuova Scozia, Canada
Dr. Tulsi Jayakumar
SPGC Board of Directors, Professor, Economics & Policy, and Executive Director, Centre for Family Business & Entrepreneurship, Bhavan's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), India.
Dr. Cinzia Colapinto
Member of the SPGC Board of Directors. Associate Professor, IPAG Business School, France. Bocconi University: Visiting Professor and Academic Researcher. Ca' Foscari University: Associate Professor of Management
Dr. Judith Van Helvert-Beugels
STEP Board Member and Academic Council Representative, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences: Professor of Family Business, Holland Management Review (HMR): Editor-in-Chief.
Dr. Thomas Clauss
STEP Project Global Consortium: Lead Researcher for the Witten Group and Board Member. Prof. Dr.Professor at Witten/Herdecke University, Investigating the particularities of family firms for digital transformation.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) was founded in 2005 by Babson College (USA), ESADE (Spain), HEC (France), Jönköping International Business School (Sweden), Bocconi University (Italy), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), and University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany).
After 15 years the STEP Project Global Consortium becomes an independent organization.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) aims to be a leading context-sensitive applied research initiative, that explores business families across generations and develops solutions that have immediate application for business leaders.
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