Appel publié par Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• February 28, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Appel publié par Journal of Family Business Strategy. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• August 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Bingbing Ge, Lancaster University Management School

Hanqing Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Alfredo De Massis, D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara

Junsheng Dou, Zhejiang University

Winnie Qian Peng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Indigenous Theorizing and Concept Development: Building indigenous theories rooted in Chinese cultural, institutional, and geopolitical conditions, drawing from Confucian ethics, guanxi logics, or dynastic continuity as explanatory mechanisms
• Entrepreneurship as Constraint and Renewal: Exploring how institutional and cultural elements such as filial obligation, demographic legacies, and social perceptions shape entrepreneurial succession
• History-informed research: Taking a history-informed perspective to understand entrepreneurship and family business practices, including innovation through tradition
• Regional Heterogeneity: Incorporating regional institutional heterogeneity as a central explanatory factor in family entrepreneurship across China's varied development models and cultural norms
• Purpose in Chinese Business Families: Theorizing Chinese family offices and their approaches to transgenerational wealth through multi-enterprise portfolios and informal arrangements
• Gender and Patriarchal Paradoxes: Theorizing gendered pathways of leadership specific to the Chinese context and female successors' roles in patriarchal traditions
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Communal Orientation: Understanding how cultural embeddedness shapes responsibility, CSR, and legitimacy in Chinese family firms
• Geopolitical Turbulence as Institutional Hybridity: Theorizing how family firms navigate global turbulence under conditions of institutional hybridity and restricted learning opportunities

Timeline

• February 1, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline for workshop participation
• March 1, 2026: Workshop acceptance notification
• April 11, 2026: Abstract deadline
• April 11, 2026: ERD Special Issue Workshop at Zhejiang University, China
• September 1, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

James Vardaman, University of Memphis

Feigu Zhou, University of Montevallo

Eric Liguori, Florida State University

Shuai Jin, Jiangsu University

Weiwen Li, Sun Yat-sen University

This special collection examines Chinese family businesses navigating intergenerational succession as they approach the 50-year anniversary of China's economic reforms. The collection addresses how family firms balance continuity with renewal as founders transfer leadership to successors, focusing particularly on socioemotional wealth—the noneconomic priorities that family firms pursue, such as preserving family control, maintaining family identity, and ensuring transgenerational continuity.

Chinese family firms provide a distinctive context for advancing family business theory. Unlike Western family enterprises that evolved within stable institutional environments, contemporary Chinese firms emerged after market reforms and now experience large-scale waves of succession amid shifts in economic institutions, governance expectations, and societal values. Successors assume leadership while navigating the coexistence of traditional Confucian principles emphasizing family continuity with modern market logics, professional management practices, and global stakeholder expectations.

Appel publié par Journal of Small Business Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Founder succession and leadership transfer in post-reform family firms
• Successor identity formation and legitimacy
• Preservation versus erosion of SEW during succession
• Tensions between family control and professionalization
• Emotional attachment, family identity, and transgenerational intentions
• SEW and strategic renewal
• Long-term consequences of Reform and Opening for family enterprise
• State–family business relationships over time
• Family and nonfamily employee experiences
• Shared identity and organizational identification

Timeline

• October 15, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline
• May 1, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline

Family businesses are a dominant organisational form worldwide and play a critical role in shaping employment, investment and long-term regional development. They are also key participants in cross-border activity. Recent studies show that internationalisation by family-controlled businesses is pervasive enough to affect aggregate patterns of global competition, rather than being a marginal exception. Existing research has paid great attention to examining whether and to what extent family involvement alters the degree, speed, and performance of internationalisation. In contrast, the marketing dimension of family businesses' international activity, in terms of how the family imprint travels to foreign customers and channels, remains comparatively underdeveloped in the literature.

Appel publié par International Marketing Review. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Branding and identity strategies of international family businesses
• Consumer perceptions and behaviour toward family vs. non-family businesses across cultures
• International market orientation, innovation, and digital marketing in family businesses
• Reputation management and communication in family multinationals
• International operational mode choices, channels, and international marketing configuration in family businesses
• Governance, professionalisation, and the role of non-family managers and boards in shaping international marketing of family business
• Cultural, institutional, and regional contingencies in family business international marketing effectiveness
• Global crisis, scandals, and responses in family-branded international marketing operation
• Methodological advancement for studying international marketing in family businesses

Timeline

• January 3, 2027: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• September 30, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission