CeFEO organizes seminars for scholars as well as family business practitioners such as owners, managers, advisors and policy makers with interest in family enterprising and ownership.

Every second week, CeFEO hosts research seminars on a range of topics. Each seminar addresses a current topic of relevance with a wide audience of interested participants. Speakers can be CeFEO members or other scholars within or outside JIBS. Specific emphasis is placed on achieving a high degree of interaction between speakers and the audience to secure a good and friendly learning outcome (e.g., constructive feedback on how to strengthen the paper or address editors and reviewers’ comments, new knowledge on specific or broad topics, alternative data collection, etc.).

Type of Seminars

  • CeFEO Research Seminars – presentation of working papers
  • CeFEO R&R Research Seminars – presentation of papers for which a review & resubmit request has been received from a journal
  • CeFEO Special Issues Seminars – targeting paper submissions to Journal Special Issues
  • CeFEO Pitch Seminars – projects and papers idea generation and development
  • CeFEO Method Seminars – dedicated to competency development


In addition to the CeFEO Seminars, we have been the founding member of European Family Business Centers (EuFBC) network since 2020—a research and international network among more than 20 largest family business centers in Europe. Every month, we organize an online seminar for members of these centers to share their research and exchange feedback.

For more information about the CeFEO seminars, please contact Josh Hsueh.