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Dear colleagues, 

 

Please find below a call for papers for a special issue of Cross Cultural &
Strategic Management on Transgenerational Entrepreneurship, edited by Kevin
Au, K. Ramachandran, Andrea Calabro, Francisca Sinn Rocende, and Matt Allen.


 

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Issue:  Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in the Global World 

 

Co Guest-Editors

Kevin Au (Area Editor of CCSM; STEP Asia Pacific), K. Ramachandran (STEP
Asia Pacific member), Andrea Calabro (STEP EU member), Francisca Sinn
Rocende (STEP Latin America member), and Matt Allen (STEP North America
member) 

 

Families and their ventures are the dominant form of business organization
worldwide.  Increasing amount of research has appeared in recent years to
study them as they play a leading role in the social and economic wealth
creation of communities and countries. To achieve continued growth and
continuity, they must pass on the entrepreneurial mindsets and capabilities
that enable them to create new streams of wealth across many generations—not
just pass a business from one generation to the next. The Successful
Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Practices Project (STEP) for Family
Enterprising refers to this practice as transgenerational entrepreneurship.
And the Project is the first global research study to focus on
entrepreneurship in business families. Since 2005, the STEP Project has
developed into a consortium with membership from over 40 schools spanning
across four continents. It has hosted its first focused Research Conference
in October, 2016. See below for several book publications by STEP.

 

Cross Cultural & Strategic Management (CCSM) is dedicated to providing a
forum for the publication of high quality cross-cultural and strategic
management research in the global context. Renamed and expanded from Cross
Cultural Management journal after a new editorial team took over in 2015,
CCSM is interdisciplinary in nature and welcomes submissions from scholars
from international business, strategic management and other disciplines,
such as anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and
sociology. The goal of CCSM is to publish discerning, theoretically
grounded, evidence-based and cutting edge research on issues relevant to all
aspects of global management.

 

The editorial team welcomes the opportunity to work with STEP on a special
issue devoted to advancing transgenerational entrepreneurship in the global
context.  The Special Issue seeks both theoretical and empirical papers on
transgenerational entrepreneurship particularly, but not exclusively, using
the STEP research framework and methodology.  We do encourage authors from
different schools and disciplines to collaborate, and to use either the 100+
in-depth case studies or the 700+ observations in the first STEP Global
Family survey. Non-STEP members can partner with STEP members to obtain
access rights to the special data sets.  The co guest-editors and the STEP
office will facilitate interested scholars to team up with STEP members (see
http://www.babson.edu/Academics/centers/blank-center/global-research/step/Pa
ges/home.aspx).

 

Transgenerational entrepreneurship may simply be defined as two or more
generations of family members driving for new business activities, strategic
renewal, and innovation (Habbershon, Nordqvist, & Zellweger, 2010; Habberson
& Pistrui, 2002). In recent years, family businesses have garnered the
attention of wide range of disciplines in a number of different outlets. In
this special issue of CCSM, we encourage collaboration and seek papers in
the broader context of transgenerational entrepreneurship and encourage
scholars of different disciplines to submit a manuscript. On one hand,
scholars can submit a paper as long as it is on transgenerational
entrepreneurship with cross-cultural comparison or a global perspective in
its discussion, for example, comparing succession practices across the US,
Canada, and Hong Kong, and studying cultural uncertainty avoidance and
family wealth management. On the other hand, scholars can submit a paper
dealing with strategic issues related to transgenerational entrepreneurship,
for instance, examining family control rights and innovation and studying
family governance and competitive strategy, preferably with implications
beyond a single country. 

 

The following are examples of potential research questions that we are
interested in, but this list is not exhaustive: 

 

*       What may be the relationship between successful succession and
transgenerational entrepreneurship? How do entrepreneurial families and
firms prepare for a successful transition?

 

*       Preserving transgenerational wealth, ­which means a continuous
stream of wealth that spans generations, is an important objective of
business families. To what extent does transgenerational entrepreneurship
contribute to this objective?

 

*       Do good ownership structure and family governance encourage the
incoming generations of a family to take risk, venture overseas, and spin
off a company across international borders? 

 

*       Setting up a family council is regarded as a hallmark in family
governance. Could the establishment of such family governance structure
promote transgenerational entrepreneurship?  

 

*       Does the meaning of transgenerational entrepreneurship vary across
different institutional environment? To what extent do different
institutional environments influence how family businesses create new
ventures or invest in them? 

 

*       Aside from quantitative studies, theory-based single or multiple
cases across countries or within countries that raise new issues with
international implications, yields new insights, and challenges existing
ideas are also encouraged

 

*       Methodological papers that test construct validity across cultures,
multi-level interactions, or develop new constructs for transgenerational
entrepreneurship are welcome.

 

Deadline for submission to the Special Issue is May 31, 2017.

 

The special issue editorial team will turn around the manuscripts quickly
and send them to experts in the field to ensure good feedback on your
submission.

 

Submission instructions

 

All manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review process.  Submissions
should be between 6,000-9,000 words, including references, figures and
tables, and follow the manuscript requirement outlined on the journal’s
website: 

 

http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.ht
m?id=ccm#10.  The submission deadline is May 31, 2017.  Please direct
queries to: Professor Kevin Au, e-mail: [log in to unmask] - See more at:
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?
id=5630#sthash.TnwEXH1c.dpuf

 

 

References

 

Habbershon, T.G., M. Nordqvist, and T. Zellweger. 2010. Transgenerational
entrepreneurship. In Transgenerational entrepreneurship: Exploring growth
and performance in family firms across generations, ed. M. Nordqvist and T.
Zellweger, 141–60. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Habbershon, T.G., and J. Pistrui. 2002. Enterprising families domain:
Family-influenced ownership groups in pursuit of transgenerational wealth.
Family Business Review, 15(3): 223–37. 

 

STEP Book Publications

Nordqvist and T. Zellweger (eds.) 2010. Transgenerational entrepreneurship:
Exploring growth and performance in family firms across generations.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

Mattias Nordqvist, Giuseppe Marzano, Esteban R. Brenes, Gonzalo Jiménez,
Maria Fonseca-Paredes (eds.) 2011. Understanding entrepreneurial family
business in uncertain environments: Opportunities and research in Latin
America. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

Au, K., Craig, J., & Ramachandran, K. (eds.) 2011. Family Enterprising in
Asia: Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

Sharma, P., Sieger, P, Nason, B., Gonzalez, A. C., Ramachandran, K. (eds.)
2014. Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship: The role of resources
and capabilities. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 

Sharma, P., Auletta, N., DeWitt, R.-L., Parada, M. J., & Yusof, M. (eds.)
2015. Developing next generation leaders for transgenerational
entrepreneurial family enterprises. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

 

 

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