“Family Business and Ecosystem Dynamics: Past, Present and Future”

This event hosts presentations from academics, students and practitioners on research relevant to the Symposium theme and family business studies.

Keynote: “Family business entrepreneurship in different institutional settings.”

Professor Nadine Kammerlander

Entrepreneurship is a prime influence in affecting the status of the entrepreneur, their family and community. Yet, entrepreneurship is itself vulnerable to policy and institutional settings. This presentation considers why these may foster differences for family business entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets.

Nadine Kammerlander leads the Institute for Family Business and Mittelstand (ifbm@WHU) as well as the Chair for Family Business at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. She also holds the role of Associate Dean for Diversity and Sustainability. Prof. Dr. Kammerlander is associate editor of the journals Family Business Review and Journal of Management and serves on the review board of several journals. Professor Kammerlander's research has been published in top-tier international journals and her research has received numerous national and international awards. Prof Kammerlander is a "Fellow" at the international association Family Firm Institute (FFI). Since 2018, she has also been a member of Wirtschaftswoche's "Best of Consulting" expert panel. Prof. Kammerlander was recognized as a Top 10 Business Researcher by Wirtschaftswoche in 2022 and as a Top 100 Global Family Influencer by Family Capital.

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Scholarly and Practice Sessions

As relevant to the symposium theme and family business studies