Continuity in Family Business: Preserving Corporate Heritage and Legacy for Long Term Success

Preservare e valorizzare il patrimonio aziendale è fondamentale per la legacy delle imprese familiari, poiché costituisce la base della continuità, creando nel tempo un senso di identità e di scopo.

Questo workshop è pensato per offrire approfondimenti sul complesso intreccio tra patrimonio aziendale e legacy in ottica di successo di lungo periodo, con particolare attenzione al passaggio alla generazione successiva. I partecipanti acquisiranno una comprensione completa di come il patrimonio e la legacy aziendale influenzino il successo nel lungo termine e apprenderanno strategie per gestire le complessità del processo di successione.

3rd February 2026

10.30-13.00

Early Career Research on Continuity and Change in Family Firms

Kimberly Eddleston and Giorgia M. D’Allura

Family Talk, Entrepreneurial Walk: How Language Shapes Entrepreneurial Mindset

Formation in Enterprising Families

Giorgia M. D’Allura, Federica Romano

Presenter: Federica Romano

Navigating generational divides: legacy and AI adoption in Italian family firms

Maria Rosaria Marguglio, Bart Henssen, Pasquale Massimo Picone, Salvatore Tomaselli

Presenter: Maria Rosaria Marguglio

Holding it all together: Gender, Work-Life Balance, and Continuity in Tourism and Hospitality Family Firms

Giacomo Del Chiappa, Giorgia M. D’Allura, Asia Troisio

Presenter: Asia Troisio

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 – Chair: Andrea Calabrò

Four Decades of Family Business Research: A Bibliometric and Thematic Evolution

Analysis (1980-2025)

Qeis Kamran

Discussant: Marco Galvagno

When Family Returns to Lead: ESG Performance and Investor Reactions to Reverse

Executive Successions

Giovanna Terrizzi, Maria Cristina Cinici, Daniela Baglieri

Discussant: Qeis Kamran

Family CEO Duality and Firm Performance: A Meta-Analytic Evidence

Maurizio La Rocca, Tiziana La Rocca, Francesco Fasano, Mattia Fasano, Valeria Schifilliti

Discussant: Lucija Mihotić

16.00-16.30 – Coffe break

16.30-18.00 – Chair: Paolo Gubitta

Why Is Agricultural Succession Different? A Narrative Exploration of Generational

Transitions in Family Farms

Szabó Gyula Márton, Dénes Sütő

Discussant: Giovanna Terrizzi

Family firms’ collective memory as a tool for sparking innovation

Giorgia M. D’Allura, Federica Romano, Giovanni Battista Dagnino

Discussant: Tiziana La Rocca

Crisis as Catalyst: Change Management in SMEs and Family Businesses

​Lucija Mihotić, Gregor Pfajfar

Discussant: Mattia Fasano

4rd February 2026

8.30 – 9.00 – Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 – 9.45 PANEL I:

From Relationships to Rules: Generational Transition Between Data, Decisions, and Governance

Chair: Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Rome LUMSA

Introductory Speaker: Fabio Quarato, Bocconi University

Case studies:

BarOttagono

Gruppo Romano

Tomarchio Pasticceria Siciliana

10.00-10.45 PANEL II:

Guardians of the Past, Architects of the Future

The Role of Mothers in the Continuity and Transformation of Family Businesses

Chair: Giorgia M. D’Allura, University of Catania

Introductory Speaker: Andrea Calabrò, SDA Bocconi

Case studies:

BarOttagono

Ecofarm/Cantine Patrì

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.00 PANEL III:

Continuity as a Common Good: Family Business, Territory, and Community

Chair: Salvatore Tomaselli, University of Palermo

Panelists:

Ecofarm/Cantine Patrì

Gruppo Mangiatorella

Mangimi Leone

Si AZ s.r.l.

12.00-13.00 Keynote:

Intergenerational Conversations: Overcoming Communication Challenges

Kimberly Eddleston – Northeastern University

13.00-14.30 Lunch