Purpose
Our international conference on Owners as Strategists aims to strengthen the dialogue and stimulate new thinking about the strategic role of ownership. The goal of the conference is to bring together a diverse set of scholars with an interest in ownership, governance, and strategy to address the overarching question what the role of ownership is for firm strategy and governance. The conference aims to facilitate the development of new theory and stimulate novel discussions about how ownership shapes firm strategy. The theoretical and practical need of studying ownership in relation to firm strategy is pressing as ownership around the world is (again) becoming progressively concentrated in the hands of owners such as entrepreneurs, families, cooperatives, financial asset managers, foundations and states.
Organisers
The Owners as Strategists Conference is a joint effort by the AIDAF-EY Chair in Strategic Management in Family Business of Bocconi University, Italy, and the Center for Family Business (CFB-HSG) and Swiss Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (KMU-HSG) of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
The co-founders, Mario Daniele Amore, Christine Scheef, Paola Taricco, and Thomas Zellweger first initiated the conference in 2021 in an effort to bring more attention to the role of owners in firm strategy.