Date:
27-26 April 2017/ Krakow

Organizers:
Krakow University of Economics and Universita Politecnica delle Marche

Program:
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The conference goal:
The goal of the conference is to discuss how family firms, and their size and sectoral distribution, impact on national economies and especially how they contribute to the economic development of low and middle income countries.

Background
Nowadays the economic development depends on the dynamics of the private sector. Most firms and entrepreneurial initiatives in the world involve families. At a certain stage most entrepreneurial ventures become family firms. The prospects and character of the economic development is conditioned by the dynamics of family firms development. The conference will be devoted to the discussion of the ways family firms contribute to the economic development of low and middle income countries.

Conference topics:

• European family capitalism and contemporary developing economies;
• Family firms in economic development;
• Family control and firm’s growth;
• Innovativeness of family firms;
• Family firms and Transnational MigrationsFamily firms and social protection/welfare state,
• Family firms and labour market transformations; Rural enterprises in developing countries;
• Internationalization of family firms – the rise of international networks of family firms; towards multinational multi-family firms;
• Family business dynamics and income distribution;

Scientific Committee:

• Chairman: Prof. Wim Naude, Maastricht School of Managemen
• Vice-chairman: Prof. Marco Cucculelli, Universita Politecnica delle Marche
• Vice-chairman: Prof. Aleksander Surdej, Cracow University of Economics
• Members:
  Prof. Nihel Chabrak, United Arabe Emirates University,
  Prof. Joseph Horak, Director of Family Owned Business Institute, GVSU;
  Prof. Andre van Stel, Trinity College, Dublin;
  Prof. Colin C. Williams, the University of Sheffield.