Best Paper Award to Lucia Naldi and Mattias Nordqvist

JIBS and CeFEO researchers Lucia Naldi, Assistant Professor and Mattias Nordqvist, Professor, has been awarded the prestigious FFI Best Unpublished Research Paper Award for 2010.

The award is granted by the Family Firm Institute (FFI) located in Boston, MA, USA and co-sponsored with Instituut voor het Familibedrijf, Brussels in Belgium.

The purpose of the award is to acknowledge outstanding yet unpublished research on relevant family business topics. The research must be both theoretically sound and practically relevant. Naldi and Nordqvist receive the award for their paper on “Knowledge, Resources and Performance: The Moderating Role of Family Involvement “, co-authored with Professor Thomas Zellweger from University of St Gallen in Switzerland.

The authors will receive the award during a ceremony held at the Harvard Club in Boston during the FFI World Conference in October 2011.