Leading Conferences

In addition to organizing the annual EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, CeFEO Members are actively participating in multiple roles of the leading research conferences in the Family Business, Ownership, and Entrepreneurship fields.

Examples of such conferences include; the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Annual Conference, the Babson Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (BCERC), the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference, the Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting, and the Strategical Management Society (SMS) Conference.

CeFEO Members are actively and consistently present at these conferences where they engage as Session Chairs, Speakers at Professional Development Workshops, and Speakers at Doctoral and Faculty Development Consortiums. Among these activities, are some notablecases:

  • Massimo Baùexternal link, opens in new window has been “Chair of the Strategic Interest Group on Family Business Research” at the 18th European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, in 2018, concluding a 4 year commitment (2015-2018). In 2017, he has been Scientific Chair of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Conference in Zadar (Croatia). Starting from Summer 2020, Massimo Baù is the Scientific Director of the Summer School in Family Business Research Methods of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA).
  • Daniel Pittinoexternal link, opens in new window has been “Program Chair-Elected of the Strategic Interest Group on Family Business Research” at the 19th European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, in 2019. Daniel Pittino will continue his engagement with EURAM in 2020 with the role of “Program Chair”, and in 2021-2022 as “Chair of the Strategic Interest Group on Family Business Research”.
  • Lucia Naldiexternal link, opens in new window is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), since 2019.

Moreover, CeFEO is a Bronze Sponsor of the “Entrepreneurship Division at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting” (2019 and 2020), the largest gathering in the world for family business and entrepreneurship scholars.


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Read more about IFERA here

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Reasd more about BCERC here

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Content updated 2020-02-13