Family Business Studies
Endowed / Distinguished Chairs / Research Centre Directors
We try to keep this list up-to-date and will appreciate your letting us know of any needed changes. Please send me a note at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with suggestions.A. Frank Adams III
Aronoff Professor of Family Business
Kennesaw State University, USA
Mauricio E. Alvarez
UDEM Family Business Center
Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Joseph H. Astrachan
Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family Business
Kennesaw State University, USA
Marc-Michael H. Bergfeld
Chair of Entrepreneurship & International Family Firms
Munich Business School, Germany
Richard E Boyatzis
H.R. Horvitz Chair of Family Business
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Michael Carney
Concordia University Research Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Concordia University, Canada
Alan L. Carsud
Loretta Rogers Chair of Entrepreneurship Research
Ryerson University, Canada
James J. Chrisman
Professor of Management & Director, Center of Family Business Research
Mississippi State University, USA
Jess Chua
Professorship in Family Business Management
University of Calgary, Canada
Guido Corbetta
AIdAF - Alberto Falck Chair of Strategic Management in Family Business
Bocconi University, Italy
James H. Davis
John F. O’Shaughnessy Chair of Family Enterprises
University of Notre Dame, USA
Andreas Dutzi
Chair for Accounting and Management Control in Family Firms
University of Witten- Herdecke University: Witten Institute for Family Businesses, Germany
W. Gibb Dyer Jr.
O.L. Stone Professor of Entrepreneurship
Brigham Young University, USA
Kimberley Eddleston
Riesman Research Professor and Tarica-Edwards Fellow
Northeastern University, USA
I. Elaine Allen
Research Director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Babson College, USA
Eileen Fischer
Anne & Max Tanenbaum Chair in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
York University, Canada
Roberto Flören
Nyenrode Business Universiteit
The Netherlands
Hermann Frank
WU Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria
Director of the Research Institute for Family Business
Vipin Gupta
Solomon Jaffe Chair in Strategy
Simmons College, USA
Andreas Hack
Chair for Family Business I
WHU, Germany
Ramona K. Z. Heck
Jonas Chair of Entrepreneurship
The City University of New York, USA
Brun-Hagen Hennerkes
Chair for Civil, Corporate, and Tax Law in Family Business
University of Witten- Herdecke University: Witten Institute for Family Businesses, Germany
Michael A. Hitt
Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership, C.W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures
Texas A & M University, USA
Frank Hoy
Paul R. Beswick Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Wocester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Juha Kansikas
Jyvaskyla University Family Business Chair
Jyvaskyla University, Finland
Sabine Klein
Chair for Family Business II
WHU, Germany
Matti Koiranen
Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Family Business
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Sascha Kraus
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
&Samhoud Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship
Maria Concepción López-Fernández
Cátedra "Banco Santander" de Empresa Familiar
Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Melquicedec Lozano Posso
Director of Research and Professor of Family Business Management.
Universidad Icesi, Cali, Columbia
Michael H. Lubatkin
Thomas John & Bette Wolff Family Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship
University of Connecticut, USA
G. Thomas Lumpkin
The Chris J. Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship
Syracuse University, USA
Leif Melin
Hamrin Professor of Family Business Strategy & Director of Centre for Family Enterprise and Ownership - CeFEO
Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
Danny Miller
Rogers.J.A.Bombardier Chair of Entrepreneurship
HEC Montreal, Canada
Petra Moog
University of Siegen, Germany
Chair of Business Succession
Ken Moores
Foundation Director and Professor
Australian Centre for Family Business
Bond University, Australia
Teresa Nelson
Elizabeth J. McCandless Chair in Entrepreneurship
Simmons College School of Management, USA
Allison W. Pearson
W.L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Management
Mississippi State University, USA
John Pozios
Director, The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law
University of Manitoba, Canada
Ernesto Poza
Professor of Global Family Enterprise
Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA
Kavil Ramachandran
Thomas Schmidheiny Chair Professor of Family Business and Wealth Management
Indian School of Business, India
David M. Reeb
Fuller Senior Research Fellow
Temple University, USA
Peter Rosa
George David Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
William Schulze
David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Professor
University of Utah, USA
Thomas Schwarz
Muth Family Chair in Family Business
Cal State Fullerton, USA
Pramodita Sharma
CIBC Distinguished Professor of Family Business
Concordia University, Canada
David G. Sirmon
Pamela M. and Barent W. Cater '77 Faculty Research Fellow
Texas A & M University, USA
Ritch Sorenson
Opus Chair of Family Enterprise
University of St. Thomas, USA
Lloyd Steier
Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
University of Alberta: Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, Canada
Alex Stewart
Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship
Marquette University, USA
Josep Tàpies
Chair of Family-owned Business
IESE, University of Navarra, Spain
Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez
Tec de Monterrey Family Business Chair
Monterrey Tech (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Mexico
Arist Von Schlippe
Chair for leadership and dynamics of family business ("Führung und Dynamik von Familienunternehmen“)
Witten Institute for Family Business
University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany
George S. Vozikis
Edward Reighard Chair of Management & Director, Institute for Family Business
California State University, Fresno, USA
Dianne H. B. Welsh
Charles A. Hayes Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship
The University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Shaker A. Zahra
Robert E. Buuck Chair of Entrepreneurship
University of Minnesota, USA
Thomas Zellweger
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Managing Director of the Centre for Family Business
