The Best Doctoral Dissertation Award is given to encourage and recognize outstanding academic achievement in the field of family business study. The Best Dissertation is awarded annually after a blind, peer review of all submissions. Dissertations may be on any topic of relevance to the understanding and appreciation of family firms and/or family firm advisors. Dissertations must have been written as part of a graduate course of study at an accredited academic institution and defended in the last calendar year.

Award: Cash prize of $2,500 plus one-year membership in FFI and complimentary registration to the 2019 Annual Global Conference in Miami

Submit
If you are submitting a paper for consideration, please:

• upload your completed doctoral dissertation as requested on the form. Include the author’s name, address, phone and email on the title page only.
• upload a one-page abstract of no more than 120 words.
• upload a summary of no more than 20 pages following the accompanying criteria.
• submit dissertation in PDF format.

Dissertations can be submitted in any language, but the abstract and summary must be submitted in English.

Submission Deadline: The deadline for submissions for awards is March 1 of the award year.

Submit online: https://www.ffi.org/awards/best-doctoral-dissertation/

Criteria

The overall quality of the entry will be based on purpose and significance of the study, research questions, literature review, research design, sample, data collection, data analysis, findings, theory (if applicable), limitations of the study, and implications for practice and research.

The entry will also be reviewed based on: literature survey, model development, hypothesis generation, research design, sample and site selection, data gathering methods, variable definition and measurement, data analysis methods, findings and conclusions.

The Best Unpublished Research Paper Award is awarded annually after a blind, peer review of all submissions. Papers may be on any topic of relevance to the understanding and appreciation of family firms and/or family firm advisors. The manuscript should not have been submitted to a journal at the time it is submitted for the award. Manuscripts should not be more than 45 typed double spaced pages, all inclusive, (using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch/2.5 cms margins). Researchers are not allowed to submit more than one paper (per year). The winners are encouraged to submit the award winning paper to FBR (or equal journal) for publication consideration.

Award: Cash prize of $2,500 plus one-year membership in FFI and complimentary registration to the 2019 Annual Global Conference in Miami

Submit
If you are submitting a paper for consideration, please:

• upload your completed unpublished research paper as requested on the form. Include the author’s name, address, phone and email ad- dress on the title page only
• submit paper in PDF format
• only one submission per author

Submission Deadline: The deadline for submissions for awards is April 15 of the award year.

PLEASE NOTE: Only one submission per author.

Submit online: https://www.ffi.org/awards/best-unpublished-research-paper/

Nominees will be notified of decisions in writing by June 1 of the submission year. Winners are expected to be present at the FFI annual conference to receive the award. Implicit in the awards submission is a commitment, if a winner, to be available to judge this category twice in the subsequent
three years.

Best Unpublished Research Paper Award Recipients

Best Dissertation Award Recipients