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AIdAF Chair: A 2010 Full of Research and Teaching

, by Andrea Celauro
Twenty-seven research studies and the consolidation of the AUB Observatory. The results were presented during the Eighth Annual Meeting of Supporting Companies

Research activities collected in 13 books and essays and 14 articles published in international journals and workings papers. These are a few of the figures which Guido Corbetta, holder of the AIdAF-Alberto Falck Chair of Strategic Management in Family Business at Bocconi, presented during the Eighth Annual Meeting with representatives from supporting companies. The event was also an opportunity to welcome the 3 new companies which have become part of the group of supporters (Miroglio SpA, CoeClerici SpA and Maggiore SpA) and to present the Chair's website (www.aidaf.unibocconi.it), which will be online starting mid-May.

During 2010, the Chair was involved in various projects on the topic of family entrepreneurship, including STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice), aimed at studying the abilities and attitudes that allow family businesses to create wealth through generations while keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive. Another project was PRIN, which involved other universities such as Padua, Udine, Naples and Carlo Cattaneo University in addition to Bocconi and whose objective is the analysis of individual, relational and context variables which explain both the orientation to entrepreneurship and performances of the entrepreneurial process.

The Chair has also completed a research project on family businesses in Milan, commissioned by the Milan Chamber of Commerce, and has contributed to the development of a project commissioned by the Italian Stock Exchange related to the topic of publicly listing Italian SMEs. In addition, it has supported development of the research project "Culture, Business and Family: The task of identity", and has provided its support in the area of the AIdAF's steering committee and within the ITFERA network (the Italian Family Enterprise Research Academy). Lastly, collaborators of the chair participated in sixteen academic conferences during 2010.

These activities were supported by research the chair developed in the area of the AUB Observatory (AIdAF-Unicredit-Bocconi), in its second edition, which monitors the structure and performance of all family companies in Italy whose yearly turnover is over 50 million euros (with results presented in 5 provinces in Italy in 2010).

In the area of teaching, the Chair contributed to developing a complete educational offer in Family Business, which involved around 650 students from Undergraduate, Graduate, Executive and Custom Programs levels. In 2011, the course of Strategic Management in Family Business will be offered for the first time in English.

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