This workshop builds on the MMOBE program (Master in Management, Organization and Business Economics) and the DEMO PhD program (Doctorate in Economics Management and Organisation)

This year 2015, the Cātedra Banca March de l'Empresa Familiar, a family business chair, sponsored by the Banca March, a leading private bank in Spain, will organize and fund the event. The presentations will uncover the relevant issues related to family business research from several perspectives (management, economics, finance,...). Leading researchers from prestigious european research centers of family buisness and Spanish directors of family business chairs network will discuss their most recent research findings.

Master in Management, Organization and Business Economics offers specialised and advanced training in the field of business research to initiate in business research and its relevant dimensions (i.e. family business), offering an analytical focus of the managerial decisions and problems that affect businesses.

The Doctorate in Economics Management and Organisation is a rigorous and internationally competitive PhD program for training high quality and publishable research in science based approaches to management of organisations. These programs pool the efforts of three separate universities, The Departments of Business Economics at Universitat Autōnoma de Barcelona, The Department of Business Economics at Universitat de les Illes Balears and the Department of Business Management at the Universidad Pública de Navarra.

This 10th IBEW - Family Business workshop is organised by Rafel Crespi, who chairs the Catedra Banca March de l'Empresa Familiar, and Lluis Bru, also professor at the UIB and researcher of the family business chair. The format will be a combination of Family Business regular research presentations with discussion in in a stimulating interactive and participative way.

The IBEW is hosted by the Department d'Economia de l'Empresa of Universitat de les Illes Balears, at the Campus in Carretera de Valldemossa, km7. The Campus is located between Palma de Mallorca and Valldemossa. The workshop will end up with a closure dinner on Friday 11th of September for all participants.