3rd Baltic Family Firm Institute - ECGI Conference

“Empowering Family Enterprise: Professionalisation and Community Impact”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Deadline: 1st February 2025

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The professionalisation of family enterprise is essential for navigating the complexities of governance, family dynamics, succession planning, and societal impact. Aligning business objectives with family values requires a structured approach to managing both financial and socioemotional priorities and challenges. The conference will explore how professional governance frameworks, investment vehicles such as family offices and family investment companies, and social impact strategies and philanthropy can provide diversification opportunities, competitive advantage, and help manage family dynamics and succession challenges thereby ensuring the continuity of family enterprise across generations. 

The conference organizers, Baltic Family Firm Institute, ECGI and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga are inviting researchers to submit recent papers or extended abstracts on family firm topics. Papers that touch on family business indirectly but offer valuable insights are also welcome. Each paper will be assigned a discussant, and time will be provided for questions and comments from the audience. 

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: 1st February 2025

A selection will be made by the conference scientific committee from papers and abstracts that are submitted before the deadline of 1 February 2025 (at midnight CEST). Researchers will be notified whether their paper has been accepted for the conference before 1 March 2025. Click here to submit!

CONTACT
Program queries should be directed to Anete Pajuste (anete.pajuste@sseriga.edu).

CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen and ECGI)
• Janis Berzins (BI Norwegian Business School)
• Valdone Darskuviene (ISM University of Management and Economics)
• Krista Jaakson (University of Tartu)
• Valerija Kozlova (Transport and Telecommunication Institute)
• Mattias Nordqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
• Anete Pajuste(Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and ECGI)
• Erik Wetter (Stockholm School of Economics)
• Alminas Zaldokas (National University of Singapore)
• Yupana Wiwattanakantang (NUS Business School, National University of Singapore and ECGI)

ORGANISATION
Conference venue: Stockholm School of Economics (Riga), Riga, Latvia. 
Conference Dates: 9-10 June 2025
The conference dinner will be held on the evening of June 9, 2025. 

The academic track of the conference will take place on June 9-10, 2025. In addition to the academic track, there will be keynote speeches, panel discussions and workshops involving family business members, as well as participants from industry and the public sector. 

Conference participation (including meals) is free for presenters and discussants. Participants are responsible for their travel and accommodation expenses. 

Note: It is intended to convene this meeting physically.