7c. Owner-manager and family in business - SME culture and leadership

Chairs:
Joan Eakin, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada: joan.eakin@utoronto.ca
Tina Kallehave, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: kallehav@hum.ku.dk

Many small enterprises are family businesses – they are run by owner-managers, and family members often work within the business. The challenges of family businesses are widely recognized. At the same time, the special culture and 'personal leadership' in many small enterprises, due to the tight social relations, also create possibilities.

This session considers various managerial issues associated with small and/or family enterprises, based for the most part on empirical research. Topics include:

- leadership role and identity of CEOs

- ways of thinking about healthy organizational culture in family businesses

- averting the difficulties of family involvement

- small employers’ recruitment practices: SMEs as “inclusive workplaces"?

Final order of presentations

Session WS7c, Wednesday 21 October, time: 11.15-12.45, location: Atrium hall:

Chair: Joan Eakin (with Tina Kallehave)

Palmgren, H., Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland:
Leadership in a Small Enterprise

Greene, Patricia G., Brush, Candida G. & Babson, Paul T., Babson College, USA:
'Creating Culture in Small Enterprise: What is healthy? How do we get there? How do we stay there?'
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Więcek-Janka, E., Poznan University of Technology, Poland:
'Family and enterprise. Family Business or Business Family'

Widding, Steinar, Work Research Institute, Norway:
'Does Size Matter?' Small employers’ recruitment and retention practices: SMEs as “inclusive workplaces”’?