The SAGE Handbook of Family Business

Leif Melin, PhD, is Professor of Strategy and Organisation and the Hamrin Professor of Family Business Strategy at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). He is the founding and past Director of Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO). He has served as Dean and Managing Director for JIBS. He was a founding researcher of the STEP project ( Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) and has served as member for the Global STEP Project Board. In 2012, he was honored with the International award at the 26th anniversary conference of the Family Firm Institute, and he was also selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar. He is the founder and annual co-chair of the EIASM Family Firm Research Workshop. He has published in international journals and book volumes, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning and Family Business Review. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals.

Mattias Nordqvist, PhD, is Professor of Business Administration and the Hamrin International Professor of Family Business. He is the Director of Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO) and on the faculty of Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization and Leadership (ESOL) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden where he has also served as an Associate Dean. Mattias is a former Co-Director of the Global STEP Project and Visiting Scholar at Babson College, USA, University of Alberta, Canada and Bocconi University, Italy. He was selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar twice; 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 by the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA, and won the Family Firm Institute (FFI) Award for Best Unpublished Research Paper twice; 2005 and 2011. Mattias is a recipient of the Young Entrepreneurship Researcher Award 2006 from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. He is a co-founding Associate Editor of Journal of Family Business Strategy.

PramoDITA Sharma is a Professor and the Schlesinger-Grossman Chair of Family Business at the Grossman School of Business (GSB) at the University of Vermont and a visiting scholar at family enterprise centers at the Indian School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Dita teaches entrepreneurial family business courses in-person and on-line at all levels of education. Her research focused on trans-generational entrepreneurship and continuity, sustainability and governance of family enterprises, has appeared in over fifty scholarly articles and eleven books including the SAGE Handbook of Family Business, Entrepreneurs in Every Generation, Patient Capital: The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business, and the 2021 release Pioneering Family Firms’ Sustainable Development Strategies. Her teaching cases have appeared in the Case Research Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Sharma is the past editor of SAGE published top ranked Family Business Review and a frequent speaker at gatherings of family business leaders. She serves as a trusted advisor to multi-generational family enterprises around the world.