Open Workshop by Dr. Olof Brunninge: Corporate governance in family firms

THE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

In family businesses where the owners are involved in management, it is usually easy to ensure that the owners’ ideas for the firm are put into practice. This becomes more complicated, however, when a company grows, an owner retires or for other reasons day-to-day management is handed over to an outsider. Through different governance mechanisms, such as an active supervisory board, an advisory board or a family council, owners can maintain control of their company while handing over day-to-day responsibility to external managers.

Olof Brunninge is Associate Professor in business administration and academic director of international development collaboration at the Jonkoping International Business School (Sweden). Olof Brunninge´s research interests lie in the areas of strategic management, organisational identity and self-understanding, corporate governance, family businesses, and social memory in organisations. He has published in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Family Business Strategy, Small Business Economics, Marketing Theory, European Business Review, Long range planning, International Studies of Management and Organization, Management & Organizational History, Corporate Communications, International Journal,  Journal of Organizational Change Management. Olof defended his PhD thesis entitled “Organisational self-understanding and the strategy process. Strategy dynamics in Scania and Handelsbanken" in 2005. The dissertation was awarded the Oscar Sillén Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in business administration of the year in Sweden.