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SPGC Global Family Business Summit​​​

Re-gener@tion: Managing Change and Innovation in Family Business

While the effects and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are still present in our social and economic reality, family businesses are currently dealing with new uncertainties and challenges derived from geopolitical instabilities, rising energy costs, global supply chains disruptions, risks of stagflation, and many other stressors.

Under this complex context, Family Businesses face the challenge of re-gener@tion in many different spheres: 

The global warming and urgency of environment preservation requires re-gener@ting perspectives in corporate governance practices for family firms and make professionalization more needed and urgent than never ever before;

At the same time business families will continue facing the never-ending challenge of renewing and re-gener@ting the family transgenerational entrepreneurship spirit, promoting new entrepreneurial initiatives (both at the corporate and the individual level) as well as developing practices for effective succession processes. 

Family firms need to re-gener@te their business models and effectively manage the innovation and change processes to adapt to the social, technical, and economic changes that we are witnessing all around the world;

These re-gener@tion challenges involve every managerial area in organizations: each re-gener@tion process has, indeed, strategic implications (strategic repertories, strategic changes, organizational reconfigurations, long-term strategic consistency and dependences, strategic innovation…); requires strong efforts and strategic leadership; has governance implications, both in the family and in the firm, requires talent management and effective Top Management Teams; and more and more to incorporating digital technologies within the business models.

The STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) Global Family Business Summit aims to address these RE-GENER@TION challenges in a two-days forum targeted both to scholars interested in Family Business Research, and actors from the managerial practice (managers, owners, executives or any other experts).

The SPGC Global Family Business Summit 2023 intends to re-gener@te the relationships between practice and academia.  This summit is conceived as a world-leading encounter where scholars and practitioners will talk and listen to each other, in a friendly and constructive climate, to propose, discuss and elaborate proposals aimed to help family firms and business families to challenge the re-gener@tion challenges that they are facing, and to achieve the highest levels of competitiveness, perdurability and socially responsible behavior.​

Below a visual representation of the different directions the Regener@tion between Academia and Practice will take place during the Global Family Business Summit.

The submission should contain a cover page and an abstract / body of the proposal (in one single document).

The cover page must include: the title of the proposal - authors’ names, affiliations, address, telephone, and e-mail.

The body of the proposal should contain an abstract of max. 3 pages (cover page and references not included) and it should not exceed 5 pages in total. Proposals must be single-spaced, Times New Roman font size 11. The abstract should clearly highlight the following aspects: 

• research question / gap, 
• theories used, 
• research method, 
• contribution to research, 
• contribution to practice.

On April 26, 2022, the SPCG and the University of Valencia will also co-host the SPGC PhD and Junior Faculty Development Workshop to boost their research methods, competence, and outcomes. Interested young scholars should send a proposal of their current or most promising research paper.

The submission should contain a cover page and an abstract / body of the proposal (in one single document).

The cover page must include: the title of the proposal - authors’ names, affiliations, address, telephone, and e-mail.

The body of the proposal should contain an abstract of max. 3 pages (cover page and references not included) and it should not exceed 5 pages in total. Proposals must be single-spaced, Times New Roman font size 11. The abstract should clearly highlight the following aspects: 

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• research question / gap, 
• theories used, 
• research method, 
• contribution to research, 
• contribution to practice.

Submission of Proposals / Abstracts (until December 1, 2022)

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The submission should contain a cover page and an abstract / body of the proposal (in one single document).

The cover page must include: the title of the proposal - authors’ names, affiliations, address, telephone, and e-mail.

The body of the proposal should contain an abstract of max. 2 pages (cover page and references not included) and it should not exceed 4 pages in total. Proposals must be single-spaced, Times New Roman font size 11. The abstract should clearly highlight the following aspects: 

• problem or experience addressed, 
• actors or elements participating, 
• context,
• alternatives considered or adopted solutions, ​
• calls for research,
• contributions to practice.

The Voice of Academia (to be announced)

The Voice of Family Business (to be announced)

Chair:
Alejandro Escribá-Esteve

Local members:
Ana Botella
Consuelo Dolz
Esther Sánchez-Peinado

Fernando López-Muñoz

Jorge Villagrasa

Lucía I. Llinares Insa

Luz Sánchez-Peinado

María Iborra

Marta Riera

Pilar González-Navarro
Rafael Jordá-Gómez
Vicente Safón​

STEP Project Global Consortium
Ana Gonzalez

Andrea Calabrò

Arpita Vyas
Rodrigo Basco

Dalhousie University 
Zhejiang University
ICESI
Universidad de Los Andes
ESPAE
IPAG Business School
ESSCA School of Management
Audencia
Siegen University
Witten / Herdecke University
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Chinese University of Hong Kong
ISB (Indian School of Business) 
SPJIMR
Dublin City University
University of Salerno
ESCP Business School
Windesheim University 
Universidad de Piura
University of Valencia
Universidad de Jaen
University of Extremadura
Grand Valley State University
Saginaw Valley State University
University of Vermont
IESA

​American University of Sharjah

Albert James
Chen Ling
Lina Valenzuela
Luis Diaz-Matajira 
María Luisa Granda
Andrea Calabrò
Mariem Hannachi
Miruna Radu-Lefebvre
Petra Moog
Thomas Clauß
Jaly Chea
Kevin Au
Sougata Ray
Tulsi Jayakumar
Eric Clinton
Carmen Gallucci
Chiara Succi
Erik Veldhuizen
César Cáceres Dagnino
Alejandro Escribá-Esteve
Manuel C. Vallejo-Martos
Ramón Sanguino Galván
Ana C. Gonzalez
Izabela Szymanska
Pramodita Sharma
Patricia Monteferrante

Rodrigo Basco

Canada
China
Colombia
Colombia
Ecuador
France
France
France
Germany
Germany
Guatemala
Hong Kong
India
India
Ireland
Italy
Italy
Netherlands
Peru
Spain
Spain
Spain
USA
USA
USA
Venezuela

UAE 

Deadline for all proposals: December 1, 2022
Deadline for full paper submission: March 28, 2023
Notification of acceptance: as of December 13, 2022
Early-bird registration of authors: February 28, 2023
Regular registration of authors: March 28, 2023

April 27-28, 2023
April 26, 2023, SPGC PhD & Junior Faculty Development Workshop

EDEM - Escuela de Empresarios
Muelle de la Aduana s/n, La Marina de Valencia, 46024 Valence, Espagne