News
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Thesis award winners 2021
Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) are proud to announce the winners of their 2021 Thesis Awards.
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First ever summer school for family business research
The first ever, entirely online Summer School on Family Business Research Methods turned out to be a milestone initiative for the family business research community. Thirty doctoral students from all over the world participated in the course, which took place from 4 May – 15 June.
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Jobbsprånget and JIBS help newcomer academics build a professional network and career in Sweden
Taking the first steps into the Swedish labour market can be challenging for academics who are new to Sweden. The internship programme Jobbsprånget (The Job Leap), run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), aims to speed up this process and act as a door-opener. Jönköping Intern...
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CeFEO members received Best Paper Award
We are happy to announce that CeFEO Members Sumaya Hashim, Lucia Naldi, and Magdalena Markowska received the Best Paper Award by IV Paper Development Seminar organized by University of the Seville.
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CeFEO researchers certified as expert family business advisors
Kajsa Haag and Massimo Baù, members of the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), have been awarded the Global Educational Network Certificate in Family Business Advising and Certificate in Wealth Advising by the Family Firm Instit...
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How Women Can Make it in the Ultimate Man's World
“How Women Can Make it in the Ultimate Man's World” is the title of a newly published article on familybusiness.org, which is based on the research of CeFEO members Sumaya Hashim, Lucia Naldi, and Magdalena Markowska and their recent publication at Journal of Family Business Strategy entitled: The r...
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Family Business education can help companies strengthen and adapt to challenges of Covid-19
CeFEO has now opened applications for the second edition of their online Family Business Management executive education this spring.
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Salvatore Sciascia is now Affiliated Professor at CeFEO
CeFEO is very happy to introduce Salvatore Sciascia as a CeFEO Affiliated Professor
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Mona Ericson is now Affiliated Professor at CeFEO
CeFEO is very happy to introduce Mona Ericson as a CeFEO Affiliated Professor
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A Colombian family’s entrepreneurial journey
CeFEO affiliated member Enrique Sandino Vargas, who has recently defended his doctoral thesis in Business Administration at the Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), has written his thesis about how factors such as family interactions, historical events and context both interact and affect...
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Helene Ahl is now Affiliated Professor at CeFEO
CeFEO is very happy to introduce Helene Ahl as a CeFEO Affiliated Professor.Helene is a professor and researcher at Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning at Ju’s School of Education and Communication.Helene received her PhD degree at Jönköping International Business School in 2002 with a...
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Congratulations Enrique!
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Enduring Effects of Relational Attributes on Subsidiary Evolution After Mandate Loss
New article in the SMS affiliated Global Strategy Journal by CeFEO member Edward Gilmore and his coauthors Ulf Andersson (MDH and BI Norwegian Business School) and Peter Ekman (MDH).
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CeFEO Thesis Award winners 2020 on Family Business and Ownership
The Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership is proud to announce the winners of the JIBS/CeFEO Thesis Award on Family Business and Ownership.
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Leading family business research centres form new European network
CeFEO is the co-founder of the European Family Business Research Centers Network (EuFBC).
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Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures in an Arab society
New article in the Journal of Family Business Strategy by CeFEO members Sumaya Hashim, Lucia Naldi, and Magdalena Markowska.
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CeFEO member featured on Swedish national entrepreneurship magazine esbri
CeFEO member Kajsa Haag is featured in the current issue of Swedish national entrepreneurship magazine esbri (in Swedish) describing the upcoming research project examining Foundations and the difference in how foundations are run in contrast to commercial companies. This research project will be co...
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In the news
CeFEO member Sarah Fitz-Koch features in an interview on Swedish agricultural news site Lantbruksnytt.se
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CeFEO PhD Candidate successfully defends his thesis
Congratulations to CeFEO member Pierre Sindambiwe, who has successfully defended his doctoral thesis "The challenges of continuity in family businesses in Rwanda".
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CeFEO members nominated for IFERA awards
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We shall overcome, someday – COVID-19 and board chairpersons’ role.
The long sunny days are back, unfortunately the summer holiday vibes aren't the same as usual, at least for thousands of people who have lost their loved ones, their jobs, or their companies due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Roots to grow
New blog post available on Vertikals
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In the News
CeFEO member and PostDoc researcher Johan Karlsson was recently featured in the paper Entrè.
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New Vertikals blog post
Leading and developing a family business under Covid-19. Blog post based on the 2nd Företagsforum.
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New Post-Doctoral Researchers
CeFEO welcomes Sara Fitz-Koch and Johan Karlsson
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Företagsforum Jönköpings Län
CeFEO (Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership) och Handelskammaren Jönköpings län bjuder in till ett diskussionsforum för regionens företagare i Zoom (kostnadsfritt).
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Join us online!
OPEN INVITATION! CeFEO Paper Seminars go (also) online!
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New CeFEO CoDirectors
From January 1, 2020 Kajsa Haag and Massimo Baù will take over CeFEO as co-Directors, embracing a dual leadership model.
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Welcome CeFEO Guest Marina Bitsch Madsen
Marina Bitsch Madsen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus University in Denmark. She will be visiting CeFEO for a period of 3 weeks from the 4th February.
Archive
2019
- CeFEO members named in top 100 scholars in Sweden.
- CeFEO is recruiting!
- Active Ownership in a changing world
- Available now - A Special Issue of Organization studies
- Welcome CeFEO Guest Dr Ludvig Levasseur
- Family Business Management
- Congratulations Andrea!
- Welcome CeFEO Guest Dr Giorgia M. D'Allura
- Welcome CeFEO Guest Gry Osnes, Ph.d.
- CeFEO Thesis Award winners 2018 on Family Business and Ownership
- Love or Hate – Conflicts in family businesses
- The craft of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship of craft:a conversation about the meeting of practice and theory with the furniture industry as an example
- CeFEO Thesis Award winners 2018 on Family Business and Ownership
- Love or Hate – Conflicts in family businesses
2018
- The craft of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship of craft a conversation about the meeting of practice and theory with the furniture industry as an example
- Sustainability and Raspberry “Lakrits” candy sustainable ownership by external management and external board of directors
- Family business student from JIBS is nominated by Jönköping University to the Global Swede 2018.
- CeFEO Researcher Judith Van Helvert-Beugels in the News in the Netherlands!
- A world leader in Vindeln Sustainable corporate building over generations
- CeFEO-forskarna Kajsa Haag och Hanna Almlöf höll ett seminarium för Family Business Network (FBN)
- CeFEO Director Mattias Nordqvist in the News in the Czech Republic
- CeFEO researchers Kajsa Haag and Hanna Almlöf in Swedish news
2017
- CeFEO is a key reason for JIBS international recognition as no. 2 worldwide in entrepreneurship research as well as for its recognition as the highest ranked university in Sweden when it comes to highly cited papers and field normalized citation rates.
- Five students received the Henry and Sylvia Toft Foundation’s Scholarship 2017 for Excellent Students within the Family Business Field from the Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO) at JIBS.
- Professor Leif Melin received lifetime achievement award
2016
- CeFEO Researchers granted 4 960 000 SEK from Swedish Research Council
- WELCOME Visiting Assistant Professor Mario Robiony
- CeFEO Researcher Naveed Akhter successfully defended his thesis
- CeFEO Researcher Massimo Baú received Pedagog Prize
- Professor Peter Rosa visiting CeFEO
- Paper published in JFBM by CeFEO Researchers
- CeFEO Researcher granted 1,8 million Post Doc position
- PhD Candidate Naveed Akhter nails his thesis to the wall
- Report presented at Entreprenörskapsforum
- New visiting Research Fellow
- Visiting PhD Candidate
- New publication in Management & Organizational History
- Professor Pramodita Sharma appointed honorary doctor at JU
- CALL Family business special issue in the journal Organization Studies
- SYSTEM STILL OPEN Submit abstract to the EIASM workshop
- CeFEO PhD Candidate Naveed Akhter receives Best Paper Award
- CALL FERC 2016
- Apply for the family business summer school
- JIBS Team wins the Global Family Enterprise Case Competition
- Book chapters by CeFEO Researchers in Strategy as practice
- Welcome Hamrin Visiting Professor Charmine Härtel
- Lessons from Swedish Firms
- 'Too many family members in a business leads to poor decisions.'
- Newly released SAGE 'Major Work on Family Business', edited by Pramodita Sharma & Leif Melin
2015
- CeFEO Researchers awarded 4,5 Million SEK for Research Project!
- Professor Leif Melin Steps down as Chair of the EIASM Family Firm Management Research Workshop
- Myths & Realities Across Cultures & Across Generations
- Mattias Nordqvist, International Keynote Speaker
- EIASM Family Business Workshop - Call for Papers
- CeFEO researcher Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas winner of the CEEMAN Champion Award!
- Welcome back Hamrin Visiting Professor, Charmine Härtel
- CeFEO Among the Best in Family Business Education and Research!
- Call for Papers
- Call for Papers! Organizational Studies Special Issue
- Congratulations! This year CeFEOJIBS will have a big representation going to the Academy of Management conference!
- New Forthcoming Book Theoretical Perspectives on Family Businesses
- Best Doctoral Dissertation Award
- CeFEO PhD Candidate Receives Award!
- Check out the interview and news article featuring CeFEO researcher and PRME Project Manager, Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas
- Ethel Brundin appointed Extraordinary Professor
- 2015 EIASM Family Business Conference
- List of accepted papers by CeFEO Researchers at SMS, AOM and IFERA
- Congratulations to Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas
- Congratulations to Marcela Ramirez-Pasillas
- Congratulations to the Winners of the 2015 Family Enterprise Case Competition
2014
- Call for papers Family Business Research SIG EURAM 2015
- Welcome Visiting PhD Candidate, Ionela Neacsu
- Welcome to the Family Business Club Fika!
- Research grant to Diogenis Baboukardos
- CeFEO Researchers at 2014 FFI Global Conference, Washington
- 2014 JIBSCeFEO Family Business Thesis Award Winners
- Call for papers – EIASM Workshop on family firm management research
- Upcoming The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
- CeFEO Researchers provided the organization 'Growth Analysis' with a Report entitled Ägarskiften i svenska privatägda företag (Swedish)
- CeFEO Researchers at the 2nd Global STEP Summit, 2013
- JIBS Case Competition Team prepares for a challenge in Vermont
- Meet Assistant Professor Philipp Sieger from University of St. Gallen
- Article by CeFEO Researcher highlighted
- CeFEO winners in Vermont
- CeFEO Researchers included in the special issue - Temporal Dimensions in Family Enterprise Research
- Call for Papers - 10th workshop on Family Firm Management Research
- CeFEO Researcher main opponent for a PhD Thesis defense in Finland
- Welcome Toft Visiting Professor Kimberly Eddleston
- Latest CeFEO publications
- Research Proposal by Giuseppe Criaco
- Paper accepted in Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice
- List of accepted papers by CeFEO Researchers at SMS, AOM and IFERA
- Welcome Toft Visiting Professor Pietro Mazzola
- List of accepted papers at the EIASM conference by CeFEO Researchers
- Job Opportunity CeFEO is looking for one Research Assistant
- EIASM Family Firm Research Workshop celebrates 10 years
- FINAL SEMINAR by CeFEO Researcher
- SAGE drops new Major Works
- Workshop Getting Published in Top Tier Journals - Guidance and Insights, September 25-26
- Call 3rd Global Family Enterprise Case Competition
2013
- CeFEO Researcher granted 280 000 SEK for an exchange to University of Queensland
- CeFEO part of an international project 'Business Transfer Programme II'
- A JIBS team participates in the 1st Global Family Enterprise Case Competition (FECC), at the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA
- CeFEO Researcher at the FIRST ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT AFRICA!
- New CeFEO leadership
- Director of CeFEO leads the course Family Business Development
- CeFEO Researchers at the 8th International Conference on Applied Business Research
- Job Opportunity New doctoral student (s) to CeFEO with a focus on Family Business andor Ownership
- Awarded the Best Paper Award at the FERC Conference, 2013
- CeFEO Researchers spoke at the seminar ’ Generationsskifte i näringslivet’ (in Swedish)
- Francesco Chirico in the committee for the PhD thesis of Ascension Martinez Barroso
- CeFEO Researchers representing JIBSCeFEO at Cardoso Law School, New York
- CeFEO Researchers at Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
- Visit from University of Udine, Italy
- CeFEO Researchers at the upcoming NFF Conference 2013
- CeFEO Researchers at the 73rd annual meeting of the Academy of Management
- CeFEO Researchers at the IFERA in St Gallen
- Announcement of the winners of the 2013 JIBSCeFEO Family Business Thesis Award
- Doctoral Candidate at CeFEO successfully defended his thesis
- Call for 2nd Global Family Enterprise Case Competition, 2014
- Visiting Assistant Professor from University of St. Gallen
2012
- Research grant for study on board work
- Mattias involved in Research Project on Longevity
- Professor Mattias Nordqvist has published a new book!
- New book chapter by CeFEO Researchers
- New Toft Visiting Professor
- Seminar by Toft Visiting Professor
- CeFEO hosts the EIASM workshop May 31st-June 2nd, 2012
- CeFEO Researchers gets the FOBI Research Scholarship
- Very Successful Family Firm Research Conference
- FFI International Award 2012 to CeFEO Researcher
- JOB OPENING Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Post Doc) - with a focus on Family Business
- CeFEO is growing - Up to three open positions as PhD student
- New book published by CeFEO Researcher
- Öppet webbinarium om att sprida forskningsresultat (in Swedish)
- CeFEO Researcher Kajsa Haag will defend her thesis, August 31st
- CeFEO Researcher Kajsa Haag successfully defended her thesis - August 31st, 2012
- Special issue on Family Business Culture in the Journal of Family Business Strategy
- Seminar - Business development through succession
2011
- 7th Workshop on Family Firms Management Research
- CeFEO-forskare på Estrad (in Swedish)
- Research Seminar Reginald A. Litz - 'Sins of the father's firm'
- Guest lecture ARBESKO
- CeFEO and ESOL researchers received FOBI scholarship!
- Jenny Helin Doctoral Dissertation Defence
- News - Imran Nazir
- Key Note Speakers at Tillväxtprogrammet
- Attendance at ToFE Conference
- EISAM Conference, Witten
- Best Paper Proceedings - Academy of Management Meetings
- Welcome Professor Fernando Muñoz-Bullón and Professor Maria José Sánchez-Bueno!
- Research Proposal - Lisa Bäckvall
- Lisa Bäckvall visits ESADE Business School
- SAGE Handbook Workshop
- Best Unpublished Research Paper Award 2010
- Two new CeFEO researchers!
- Doctoral course at CeFEO
- New track at EGOS
- Welcome TOFT Visiting Professor Sabine Klein
- Research Seminar Sabine Klein - The paradox of the schizophrenic organization
- CeFEO mentioned in Brazilian Blog
- CeFEO supports new project on Private Equity and Family Businesses
- CeFEO article published in IJGE
- CeFEO article published in JFBM
- CeFEO Researcher - Key Note Speaker
- Call for papers — 8th Workshop on Family Firms Management Research
- STEP Africa Family Business Workshop
- Kajsa Haag's Final Seminar 20 Dec!
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