Awards

Best Contribution to Practice Award

for the paper “The impact of family membership diversity and family governance practices on eco-innovation decisions” (Duong, P.A.N, Voordeckers, W., Huybrechts, J., Lambrechts, F., & Van Gils, A.) at the 18^th EIASM Workshop on Family Management Research in Napels, Italy.

AIM2Flourish Prize Winner

for UN Global Goal #15: Life on Land for the sustainable innovation story of Bio2Clean (MBA student: An Voets, Professor: Frank Lambrechts)

Best Article Award Family Business Review

for the article: Murphy, L., Huybrechts, J., & Lambrechts, F. (2019). The Origins and Development of Socioemotional Wealth Within Next-Generation Family Members: An Interpretive Grounded Theory Study. Family Business Review, 32(4), 396-424.

The Best Article Award recognizes the best article published in Family Business Review in the previous calendar year. It is given to recognize and celebrate the most substantial contribution to FBR, highlighting FBR’s pioneering and anchoring role in the field of family business studies. Winners are judged by a committee of three people from the FBR Editorial Advisory Board.

Shortlisted for the Alan Moon Memorial Prize

for the paper “Career: A driver of family business involvement for next generation family members?” (Murphy, L., Lambrechts, F., & Huybrechts, J.) at the 16^th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, Cork, Ireland.

Award for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing

Journal of Family Business Strategy.

Best Conference Research Paper Award

for First-Time Presenter for the paper “How about this other succession option? Gaining a deeper understanding of the conditions under which a nonfamily CEO can thrive” (Kelleci, R., Lambrechts, F., Voordeckers, W., & Huybrechts, J.) at the 14^th Annual IFERA World Family Business Conference, Lappeenranta, Finland (R. Kelleci, at the time a Ph.D. student of mine, was the first-time presenter).

The University of Alberta Best Research Paper Award

for the paper “The Distinctiveness of Family Firm Intangibles: An Empirical Study” (Huybrechts, J., Voordeckers, W., Lambrechts, F., Steijvers, T., & Lybaert, N.) at the 12^th Annual IFERA World Family Business Conference, Bordeaux, France.

Nominated for the Best Paper Award

for the paper “Co-creating psychological ownership for the changing family firm: Applying a relational practice perspective” (Lambrechts, F., Koiranen, M., Grieten, S., & Bouwen, R.) at the 5^th EIASM Workshop on family firm management research, Hasselt, Belgium.

Schelstraete & Desmedt Human Resources Award

for Best Master Thesis in Organizational Psychology, Leuven University, Belgium.