Call for Papers – European Academy of Management Family Business in Emerging, Developing, and Transition Economies Proponents Basco, R. (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) Discua Cruz, A. (Lancaster University, UK) Jimenez-Seminario, G. (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile) Ramachandran, K. (Indian School of Business, India) Xin-chun, L. (Sun Yat-sen Business School, China) Welter, F. (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung, Germany) To submit your paper to the EURAM 2015 Conference (click here) Deadline 13 th January 2015 The aim of this special track is to increase understanding about family businesses by focusing on developing, emerging, and transition economies. Family businesses are ubiquitous, diverse and dominant in the economic landscapes around the world (Howorth, Rose, Hamilton, & Westhead, 2010). The diversity of family business models suggest that we should look closely at the context in which family businesses dwell (Gupta, Levenburg, Moore, Motwani, & Schwarz, 2008) because of the intrinsic relationship among family - family business - context. While family businesses have received increasing attention, the vast majority of research has concentrated on developed economies. This is evident as more than 85% of research findings (qualitative or quantitative) published about family businesses in leading journals in the last three years uses samples from developed countries. This may limit our understanding of family businesses as the contexts in which they operate around the world are varied: some contexts may either foster or prevent family business start-up, some may fuel or hinder existing family business development and the way family businesses are governed and managed, and some may prevent or accelerate their demise. A faŵily’s ;aŶd firŵ’sͿ external environmental context (that is, cultural, demographic, economic, educational, legal, and social) can shape family firm formation, diversity, and development (Howorth et al., 2010). Studies on developing, emerging, and transition economies are underrepresented in the family business field i Theorizing about family businesses in general has followed three main paths: borrow and replication, borrow and extending and inverse contribution (Pérez Rodríguez & Basco, 2011). The unit of analysis that most works have focused on has been the family businesses per se (Jansen & Basco, 2014) with little attention to the context. While some recent studies have attempted to focus on cultural aspects, entrepreneurial behavior, applicability of mainstream theories and the external environment to uncover the extent of family firm diversity (e.g. Discua Cruz & Howorth, 2008; Gupta & Levenburg, 2010; Rosa,