Workshop goal

The workshop goal is to advance our understanding on how and to what extent governance (corporate governance and family governance) may contribute to fueling and shaping different types of individuals’ emotions at the interface of the family and business systems and its influence on individual, family and organizational outcomes in entrepreneurial and family businesses. Our hope is that this workshop leads to the development of theories and empirical research as well as teaching programs to increase our knowledge of how inhibition or enhancement of certain emotions via governance in the organizational context may impact the firm’s in different areas, particularly innovation and strategic development.

2.1 Introduction (10 minutes)

The first 10 minutes will be used as a set-up time to get the participants familiar with the themes identified by the invited scholars.

2.2 Part I: State of the art of the latest research on the theme (50 minutes)

Prior to the workshop, the Distinguished Speakers would have addressed some questions posted on our webpage.

Prof. Yochi Cohen-Charash - Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Department of Psychology - USA
The Value Judgement of Emotions

Yochi Cohen­‐Charash is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Baruch College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). She has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, with a focus in industrial/organizational, social and personality psychology.

A nominee for the top teaching award at Baruch, she is also an award winning researcher and studies the role of emotions in gaining better employee, team and organizational outcomes. Her expertise is in the influence of discrete emotions, such as envy, jealousy, resentment, as well as happiness for another's success ( firgun) on employee behavior. She also has expertise in the role of personality in employee behavior, power, and organizational fairness.

Yochi Cohen-­‐Charash has published in top journals such as Current Directions in Psychological Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She is an Associate Editor of Emotion Review and a board member in the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE).

Contact: Yochi Cohen-Charash, Ph.D. - yochi.cohen-charash@baruch.cuny.edu
Personal: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/psychology/ycohen-charash.htm
Lab: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/psychology/OrganizationEmotion...

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Prof. Alfredo De Massis - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Department of Economcis and Management - Italy
Emotions, power and the paradoxical effects of family ownership on absorptive capacity & Some questions for future research on emotions and family business

Alfredo De Massis is a Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Business and the Director of the Centre for Family Business Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He is also affiliated with Lancaster University Management School, UK, where he co-directs the Centre for Family Business. His research interests focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management of family enterprises. In September 2015, Family Capital ranked him among the world’s top 25 star professors for family business. He serves as Associate Editor of Family Business Review and on the Editorial Boards of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of Family Business Strategy. His research has been published widely in leading academic and professional journals including Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, Family Business Review, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Business Ethics, California Management Review. He has been Guest Editor of ten special issues on family business- and strategy-related topics in journals like Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Global Strategy Journal, California Management Review, International Journal of Management Reviews and Small Business Economics. His interdisciplinary research has been featured in various media outlets including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review.

Contact: alfredo.demassis@unibz.it

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Prof. Ronald Humphrey - Lancaster University
Department of Leadership and Management - United Kingdom
The Role of Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, and Positive Emotions in Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Ronald H. Humphrey is a Distinguished Professor of Leadership in the Lancaster University Management School in the United Kingdom. He is also Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies and Practice at Lancaster University. Before joining Lancaster in October, 2015, he was a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he won the 2014 VCU School of Business Distinguished Researcher award.  He recently published Effective Leadership: Theories, Cases, and Applications (Sage, 2013).  He previously edited a special issue of The Leadership Quarterly on emotions, and he recently (2017) co-edited a special issue of the Academy of Management Review on emotions and management.  Much of his current work is on entrepreneurial leadership, with a particular interest in how entrepreneurs can lead with empathy, emotional intelligence, and emotional labor. He is also researching entrepreneurial intentions and the personality traits of entrepreneurs. Along with his coauthors, he has published a series of meta-analyses that have demonstrated that emotional intelligence has incremental validity over cognitive intelligence and the Big Five personality traits when predicting individual job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, counterproductive work behavior, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intentions. These meta-analyses have also shown that leader emotional intelligence predicts follower job satisfaction.  Ron is also a member of the metaBUS team; metaBUS is a web-based Big Science platform capable of finding and curating-as well as instantly meta-analyzing-millions of scientific research findings for broad scientific and public use (see www.metaBUS.org). This project has the potential to revolutionize how researchers collect and analyze data.  BA: U. of Chicago; Ph.D.: U. of Michigan; Postdoctoral Fellow: Indiana University.

Contact: r.humphrey@lancaster.ac.uk

Then, 15 minutes of questions and discussion from the audience.

Coffee Break & Networking Time: 10 minutes. Sicilian taste and pastry will be offered.

2.3 Part II: Roundtables on emotions and governance (30 minutes)

The next 35 minutes will be used for intensive dialogue in roundtables based on the submitted papers and the inspiration from the speeches presented in Part I. The discussion will be led by table facilitators who are selected scholars experts in the field. The table facilitators will also have a laptop with a template for reporting out the table discussion during the plenary session (all table facilitators will have the template and be pre-trained on how to use it). Each roundtable will be categorized under a label of a certain type of emotion with one facilitator, who is respectively familiar with the emotion discussed from a research perspective and the governance and entrepreneurship literature. The tables are organized are as follows :

Table 1: Happiness and Empathy Table:

Dr. Ronald Humphrey, Lancaster University (USA).
rhhumphr@vcu.edu
 

Table 2 Hope and Fear Table:

Dr. Marina Biniari - Aalto University (Finland).
marina.biniari@aalto.fi
 

Table 3: Anger and Gratitude Table:

Dr. Thierry Paulmier – Paris Est University (France)
paulmierthierry@gmail.com
 

Table 4: Envy Table:

Dr. Yochi Cohen-Charash, City University of New York, Baruch College (USA).
Yochi.cohen-charash@baruch.cuny.edu
 

Table 5: Regret and Guilt Table:

Dr. Rania Labaki – EDHEC Business School (France).
rania.labaki@edhec.edu

 

Table 6: How to teach emotions in management class:

Dr. Giorgia M. D’Allura – University of Catania (Italy)
gdallura@unict.it

Participants to each round table are asked to prepare and address the following questions to reflect on the submitted works in progress:

What are the critical issues investigated on governance and emotions at the interface of family and business systems?

How relevant are the existing gaps the research questions suggest to fill and the outlined objectives?

How relevant is the methodology selected for the studies?

What are the major hypotheses stemming out of the state of the art relative to the research questions (if relevant)?

Commentary on the empirical study development and analysis

Reflections on the preliminary findings (if relevant) in terms of the influence of the emotions studied on different aspects of the competitive advantage of entrepreneurial and family organizations

Sharing the major concerns about the development of the research papers and suggested arenas to addressing them

Discussing potential research directions, practical implications for entrepreneurial and family businesses, and suggestions to teach the related topics in management classes.

2.4 Part III: Plenary session: discussion and future research directions (20 minutes)

A plenary discussion will follow with the invited scholars and facilitators reporting the research propositions and state of advancement identified by their table. We invite the audience to ask questions to the presenters and to share emerging thoughts. We will then compile a list of the top works in progress contributions to develop an overall prioritized roadmap for future research on the emotions and governance at the interface of entrepreneurial and family businesses as well as a list of suggestions on the teaching programs, methods and techniques on the topic.

2.5 Concluding remarks and next steps (10 minutes)

The organizers will summarize the outcomes of the discussion in relation to the workshop goals. We will also explore after-workshop actions such as a replication and follow-up of the PDW at AOM 2018.