Advancing Family Business Research Across Europe
A joint initiative of 24 university research centers creating opportunities for scholarly discussion, collaboration, and exchange in the field of family business.
Scholarly exchange
Member centers share work in progress and get feedback from family business scholars across Europe.
Collaboration across borders
Contacts between centers grow into joint projects, co-authored papers and shared activities.
The next generation
Doctoral and early-career researchers from every member center are the core of the network.
Member centers
- AIDAF-EY Chair in Strategic Management of Family Business, Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)
- Center for Family Enterprise, Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Center for Young and Family Enterprise, University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)
- Centre for Family Business, Lancaster University (Lancaster, UK)
- Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership, Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping University (Jönköping, Sweden)
- Chair for Family Entrepreneurship & Society, Audencia (Nantes, France)
- Chamber of Commerce Chair of Family Enterprises, Universitat de Girona (Girona, Spain)
- Dutch Centre of Expertise in Family Business, Windesheim (Windesheim, Netherlands)
- EDHEC Family Business Research Centre, EDHEC (Lille, France)
- Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Institute, EBS University (Oestrich-Winkel, Germany)
- FAmily BUsiness LAb, LIUC (Castellanza, Italy)
- Family Business Lab on Accounting and Governance, University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy)
- Friedrichshafen Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen, Germany)
- Global Business Family Initiative, ESADE (Barcelona, Spain)
- IE Center for Families in Business, IE University (Madrid, Spain)
- IMU-U and IOP-P, University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
- Innovation, Strategy and Family Business, Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy)
- Institut für Mittelstandsforschung, Universität Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany)
- Institute of Family Business and Mittelstand, WHU (Vallendar, Germany)
- National Centre for Family Business, Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland)
- Raya Strauss Center for Family Firm Research, Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
- Research Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Firms, Hasselt University (Hasselt, Belgium)
- Vienna Institute for Family Business, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria)
- Witten Institute for Family Business, Witten/Herdecke University (Witten, Germany)