The Academic Leader defines the topic to be studied, poses the principal inquiries, identifies and invites the best thinkers on the issue – representing different disciplines and nationalities, directs contributions, leads discussion and oversees the resulting publication.
Marta Elvira, Professor of Strategic Management & Managing People in Organizations and Chair of Family-Owned Business has received the grant in support of the project “Family-firm Governance vis-à-vis Employee and Environment Orientation.” She will be aided in her research by IESE Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Jeroen Neckebrouck, and by post-doctoral researcher Sumeet Malik. The project will encompass two studies: ‘Family Firms and Employees’; and ‘Family Firms and Environment’, that aim to increase current understanding about family firms’ care for nonfamily stakeholders by investigating specifically family firms’ orientation towards employees and the environment. This research will inform managers regarding crisis management and policymakers about the particular family firm characteristics that lead to better outcomes.
Both current challenges and the past failures of economic planning suggest that we need more market pricing, more globalization, and more growth, not less, argues Professor Harold James.
Undaunted by the lingering effects of Covid-19, STI forged ahead to foster understanding of global social trends through academic meetings, publications and scholarly research.
