The questions we want to address at the workshop are: -What are the key factors for understanding total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the disaggregate level (e.g. information and communication technology (ICT) capital/human capital/organizational structure/competition). - What are the...

The background to the workshop is the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm that has taken place during the last 35 years. In spite of all the progress in the field the traces in microeconomic and industrial organization textbooks are scant.

We especially welcome papers dealing with the following areas: - Industrial dynamics and firm demography - Portfolio, serial and novice entrepreneurship - Institutions and entrepreneurship - Productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship policy

Four categories of research are of interest for the workshop: 1) Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the specific sub-theme of “Entrepreneurial families and family firms”. 2) Review of the family business research field: state-of-the-art papers that allow to discuss the knowledge...