AUDENCIA: A UNIQUE "FAMILY ENTREPRENEURSHIP & SOCIETY" CHAIR

A pioneering Chair in its field of expertise

Within higher education, a Chair promotes a discipline through the implementation of research work and the transmission of this knowledge. Bridging the gap between academia and the economic world, the Chair is aimed at a wide audience, whether students, teacher-researchers, but also actors in the business world.

Thanks to its ten years of experience, the Audencia Family Entrepreneurship & Society Chair appears today as the reference French center of expertise in the field of family entrepreneurship.

The missions of the Family Entrepreneurship & Society Chair

Apart from the research work carried out within the Chair on entrepreneurial families and family entrepreneurship, it also aims to disseminate knowledge through training cycles.

Since 2014, the Chair has been offering the Future Family Business Leader course, launched in collaboration with CIC Ouest. A pioneer in this field of training, the center of expertise is currently forming its 8th promotion on issues of legitimacy, leadership, change management and conflict management.

In parallel, in 2019, the Chair launched the National Observatory of Family Entrepreneurship in partnership with the Family Business Network France (FBN), implemented by Opinion Way. The objective of this national survey conducted every two years on a representative sample of family and non-family businesses is to better understand the entrepreneurial levers of family businesses to define, in particular, what are the challenges and the different evolutions in terms of performance, innovation, and corporate culture.

An educational team supported by patrons

Thanks to a multidisciplinary teaching team composed of internationally recognized professors, the Chair has been developing, for many years, award-winning research in international conferences, adapted to the challenges of family businesses and providing concrete solutions for managers, their families and their employees.

"Within our center, we welcome both teacher-researchers, consulting specialists and consultants. All are specialized in family entrepreneurship, innovation, or CSR. Through our activity, we would like to thank our patrons who support us today: CIC Ouest, Crédit Mutuel Equity, and Groupe Mousset, they allow us to animate this unique ecosystem around research and the transmission of knowledge, "says Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, founder and holder of the Family Entrepreneurship & Society Chair.

While family businesses remain today the most widespread form of business on the French territory, the Family Entrepreneurship & Society Chair wishes to continue its research and teaching work by supporting new generations in the field of family entrepreneurship. To achieve this, the project managers are currently looking for new partners who would like to take part in this unique research and pedagogical adventure in France.