Family Firm Institute Announces 2020 Family Business Review (FBR) Award Recipients from Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK, and the US

BOSTON, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Best Family Business Review Article Recipients
The Best Article Award recognizes the best article published in FBR in the previous calendar year. It is given to recognize and celebrate the strongest contribution in FBR, highlighting FBR's pioneering and anchoring role in the field of family business studies.

Linda Murphy, University College Cork; Jolien Huybrechts, Maastricht University; and Frank Lambrechts, Hasselt University, for their article "The Origins and Development of Socioemotional Wealth Within Next-Generation Family Members: An Interpretive Grounded Theory Study."

Thanks to Lansberg, Gersick & Associates (LGA) for its sponsorship of this award.

Best Family Business Review Article Honorable Mention
This year, two papers received Honorable Mention:

Sabine Rau, University of Ottawa; Viktoria Schneider-Siebke, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management; and Christina Günther, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, for "Family Firm Values Explaining Family Firm Heterogeneity."

Melanie Richards, University of Bath; Nadine Kammerlander, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management; and Thomas Zellweger, University of St. Gallen, for "Listening to the Heart or the Head? Exploring the 'Willingness Versus Ability' Succession Dilemma."

Outstanding Reviewer
The Outstanding Reviewer Award is given to the reviewer who has excelled in his or her reviewing for FBR, highlighting the importance of reviewers in the development and publication of scholarly research.

David Jiang, Elon University

Thanks to Resource Management, LLC for its sponsorship of this award.

About FBR
Family Business Review (FBR), FFI's quarterly journal, is the leading scholarly publication devoted exclusively to exploration of the dynamics of family-controlled enterprise. FBR is focused not only the entrepreneurial founding generation, but also on family enterprises in the 2nd and 3rd generation and beyond, including some of the oldest companies in the world.

About FFI
The mission of FFI is to be the most influential global network of thought-leaders in the field of family enterprise. We provide research-based learning and relevant tools for advisors and consultants, academics and family enterprise members to drive success. Professionals, educators and researchers, as well as family enterprise members from across the globe, belong to FFI. Together they create the oldest and most prestigious multidisciplinary association for family enterprise academics and professionals in the world.

SOURCE Family Firm Institute