Baltic Family Firms Institute - ECGI Conference 2025

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3rd Baltic Family Firm Institute - ECGI Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: 1 February 2025 (at midnight CEST).

“Empowering Family Enterprise: Professionalisation and Community Impact”

9-10 June 2025

ABOUT THE EVENT

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. 

This event is part of the Family Capitalism pillar of the ECGI’s Responsible Capitalism project.

The conference organizers 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

A selection will be made by the conference scientific committee from papers and abstracts that are submitted before the deadline of 1 February 2024 (at midnight CEST). Researchers will be notified whether their paper has been accepted for the conference before 1 March 2025. 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).


ORGANISATION

Conference venue: Stockholm School of Economics (Riga), Riga, Latvia

The academic track of the conference will take place on June 9-10, 2024. 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. 

The conference dinner will be held on the evening of June 9, 2025. 

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. 

More information can be found here.

    Questions may be directed to: admin@ecgi.org

    This event is organised by the Baltic Family Firm Institute in collaboration with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

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