CFB team receive Runner-up Best Paper at IAM conference

A team of scholars from the CFB was awarded Runner-up in the Best Paper Award at the recent Irish Academy of Management Conference. Ireland's leading management conference played host to over 120 papers across finance, HRM, CSR, entrepreneurship, marketing and more. 

The CFB team included Prof. Maura McAdam, Director of Entrepreneurship at DCU; Dr. Eric Clinton, Director of the DCU Centre for Family Business; and Ms. Martina Brophy, Research Assitant at the CFB. The awarded paper is entitled: "An Exploration of the Entrepreneurial Learning Processes in a Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Family Firm". The paper looks at a single case study of an Irish family firm that has successfully passed the lessons of entrepreneurial achievement across generations.

Speaking of the award, Martina Brophy commented:

"On behalf of my co-authors, we are delighted to receive this recognition for our work on entpreneurial learning within a TEF (Transgenerational Entrepreneurial Family) firm. This show of confidence motivates our continued research efforts as we aim to uncover this space further."

The 19th Annual IAM conference was held at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.