Dear All, with apologies for cross-posting, please contact us if you are
interested.
for further information:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Family-firms-and-the-Regional-Economy
Best wishes,
Rodrigo & Lech
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RSA—Annual Conference: Pushing Regions beyond Their Borders
June 5, 2019 – June 7, 2019, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
Open Special Session—SMEs and Family Firms in Urban and Peripheral Areas
Lech Suwala (Technische Universität Berlin)
Rodrigo Basco (American University of Sharjah)
Despite big business, big data, and big transitions, there are still
small and medium enterprises (SMEs), many of which are family firms or
so-called hidden champions that serve as the economic backbones of and
provide continuity in developed and emerging economies. SMEs and family
firms comprise diverse types of businesses, from traditional century-old
Japanese dynasties, American family farms, and German Mittelstand to
novel Shanghai and Silicon Valley elites. Simultaneously, they are
geographically uneven phenomena in terms of their distribution as well
as their impact on and interplay with the local, regional, and national
levels and beyond, thus requiring more academic attention in the field
of regional studies. Against this background, this session aims to open
up a profound debate on this often-neglected topic by collecting diverse
work on SMEs and/or family businesses in urban and peripheral contexts.
We invite scholars from manifold disciplines, such as regional
economics, economic geography, family business, management, organization
studies, and international business, as well as practitioners from
diverse backgrounds to share their interests and to submit their
research on the spatiality of SMEs and family firms, particularly in
urban and peripheral areas.
Our rationale is to initiate a debate—independent of methodological
approach (qualitative or quantitative)—on SMEs and/or family businesses
played out in agglomerations and peripheries. Conceptual, empirical, and
methodological papers might address, but are not limited to, the
following:
• Conceptual and theoretical debates about the nature of SMEs/family
firms and space (i.e. regional familiness, family relatedness in cities
and peripheries).
• Contributions and impacts of SMEs/family firms in agglomerations and
peripheries.
• Specificities in the evolution and trajectories of SMEs/family firms
in urban and peripheral areas.
• Issues related to the place leadership or corporate urban/regional
responsibilities of SMEs/ family firms.
• SME-/family firm–specific issues (succession, governance, reputation,
professionalization, etc.) from a spatial perspective.
• Role of SMEs/family firms in digitalization and platform-based
economies and the impact of spaces.
If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please
submit your abstract of no more than 300 words via the RSA platform by
28 February 2019. Feel free to contact us anytime: Lech Suwala
(
l.suwala@isr.tu-berlin.de) and/or Rodrigo Basco (
rbasco@aus.edu), shall
questions arise.
For more information and registration visit:
https://www.regionalstudies.org/sessions/sdc-special-sessions/#625
https://members.regionalstudies.org/lounge/Meetings/Meeting?ID=209
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Prof. Dr. Lech Suwala
Professor in Urban and Regional Economics
Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Stadt-und Regionalplanung
Hardenbergstr.40A / Sekr. B4 / Raum 208
10623 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 314 28088
Tel. Sekr. +49 30 314 28089
Fax. +49 30 314 28150
l.suwala@isr.tu-berlin.de
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lech_Suwala