Staringstraat 28 H, 1054VR Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
ABOUT US.
Our Mission and Vision
WHO ARE WE.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) for family enterprising is an initiative launched to explore entrepreneurship practices within family businesses.
Our global leaders from leading academic institutions and business families are engaged in research, teaching, and practice-oriented activities to generate solutions that have immediate application for family leaders.
With an aim to generate cutting edge research, we offer best-practice solutions to sustain entrepreneurial families across generations.
OUR MISSION.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) is committed to collaboratively research transgenerational entrepreneurship in order to produce highly relevant, applied research which makes a tangible difference to the business families and their stakeholders around the world.
OUR VISION.
To be a leading global family business research project with an international research reputation towards producing insights that are of relevance to researchers, family business, stakeholders and the practice community at large.
OUR LEADERS.
Dr. Andrea Calabrò
Global Academic Director at SPGC.
Professor of Practice in Family Business & Entrepreneurship at SDA Bocconi, Italy
Dr. Ana Gonzalez
Chair of the Board of Directors at SPGC.; Director of the Family Owned Business Institute at Grand Valley State University
(GVSU); Associate Professor of Management at the Seidman College of Business, GVSU,
USA
Dr. Albert James
Board of Directors at SPGC.
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr. Tulsi Jayakumar
Board of Directors at SPGC.
Professor, Economics & Policy, and Executive Director, Centre for Family Business &
Entrepreneurship, Bhavan's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research
(SPJIMR), India.
Dr. Cinzia Colapinto
Board of Directors at SPGC.
Full Professor at IPAG Business School, France.
Associate Professor at Venice School of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Dr. Judith Van Helvert-Beugels
Board of Directors at SPGC.
Professor in Family Businesses at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Dr. Thomas Clauss
Board of Directors at SPGC.
Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Management Economics & Society at Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany Wifu-Foundation Chair for Corporate Entrepeneurship and Digitalization in Family Business
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) was founded in 2005 by Babson College (USA), ESADE (Spain), HEC (France), Jönköping International Business School (Sweden), Bocconi University (Italy), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), and University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany).
After 15 years the STEP Project Global Consortium becomes an independent organization.
The Stichting STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) aims to be a leading context-sensitive applied research initiative, that explores business families across generations and develops solutions that have immediate application for business leaders.
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