

In its sixth edition, the conference aims to serve as a distinguished platform for developing academic articles in a structured, stimulating, challenging and friendly environment as well as for networking. It is our pleasure to invite you to join us at the biennial conference which will be held digitally on November 16th/17th 2020. *** Online, Germany, November 16th/17th, 2020 ***Ħth International Research Forum on Mittelstand
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*** Registration is still open until 14th of November! Link: Family firms in emerging economy regions. Professionalisation etc.) in a regional context Family firms specific issues (succession, governance, reputation, Contribution and impact of SME/ Family firms on the regional economy

Evolution and trajectory of Family firms Conceptual and theoretical debates about the nature of Family firms Papers might address, but are not limited to: It seeks contributions for a better understanding of past and current SME and/or family firm peculiarities and trajectories from around the world by addressing conceptual, empirical and methodological papers on these types of businesses and their role in regional economies. In Europe, for instance, they constitute 99% of all businesses moreover, in the past five years or so, they were responsible for 85% of new jobs and provided two-thirds of the total private sector employment in the EU.Īgainst this background, the project aims to open up a profound debate on this often-neglected topic in regional science and economic geography by collecting diverse work on SMEs and/or family businesses in a regional context. At the same time, most family business are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) it is a well-known fact, that these types of firms represent the backbone of most economies. In this context, we also offer a reinterpretation of the currently fashionable notions of ‘creativity’ and the role of skilledįamily businesses encompass a broad range of actors, ranging from Germany’s Mittelstand to America’s family farm from Japanese century old money business dynasties to the new-money elites of Shang hai and Silicon Valley. We argue that a more effective line of explanation must relate urban growth directly to the economic geography of productionĪnd must explicitly deal with the complex recursive interactions between the location of firms and the movements of labor.

Of their assumptions about human behavior, as well as their silence in regard to the geographical dynamics of production and Growth as a response to movements of people in search of consumer or lifestyle preferences can be questioned on the grounds However, these approaches raise many unanswered questions. Amenities, it is often said, have an especially potent effect on the migration patterns of individuals endowed Question by privileging the role of individual locational choice in response to amenity values as the motor of contemporary Do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs? A number of currently prominent approaches to urbanization respond to this
