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Peter Jaskiewicz

Jaskiewicz, Peter
Full Professor
Patricia Saputo Distinguished Chair in Family Enterprise; University Research Chair in Enduring Entrepreneurship
MBA (EBS Universität), Ph.D. (EBS Universität)
Location
DMS 6129
Telephone
613-562-5800 x 4730
Email
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Biography

Peter was born into a business family in Poland and grew up in Germany. Wanting to understand why succession failed in his family’s business, Peter researched family businesses during both his doctoral studies at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, and while visiting INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and IESE Business School, Barcelona. Today, he is a Full Professor of family enterprise at the Telfer School of Management in Ottawa, where he founded and leads the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute. 

His research is interdisciplinary and international in nature and regularly integrates research from sociology, psychology, management, finance, and family science. His work has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Harvard Business Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Family Business Review, among others. His findings on family business have received numerous awards and were considered among the most globally influential scholarship in 2013, 2015, and 2017.

Peter has presented his research insights to members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, and employees of the United Nations. In addition, he has also worked with the federal government in Canada. He is an associate editor of the leading journal in the family business field—the Family Business Review—and of the pioneering knowledge-sharing platform—familybusiness.org. He has been a visiting professor at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland), Zhejiang University (China), Sorbonne Business School and University de Nanterre (both France), and King’s College (United Kingdom), and is a frequent keynote speaker at both academic and practitioner conferences. He trains family business professionals on succession planning and supports the development of responsible next-generation owners and effective transgenerational teams.

Publications during the last 7 years

Papers in Refereed Journals

  • Jaskiewicz, P., Belot, F., Combs, J., Boutron, E. and Barredy, C. 2024. When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, (In Press).
  • Suddaby, R., Silverman, B.S., Jaskiewicz, P., De Massis, A. and Micelotta, E. 2023. History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work. Family Business Review, 36(1): 4-16.
  • Tetzlaff, E., Jaskiewicz, P. and Wiklund, J. 2023. Implications of Mental Health for Business Families and Family Businesses: Towards a Holistic Research Agenda. Family Business Review, (In Press).
  • Hsueh, J., Campobiana, G., Tetzlaff, E. and Jaskiewicz, P. 2023. Managing non-family employees’ emotional connection with the family firms via shifting, compensating, and leveraging approaches. Long Range Planning, 56(5): 102274.
  • Combs, J., Jaskiewicz, P., Ravi, R. and Walls, J. 2023. More Bang for Their Buck: Why (and When) Family Firms Better Leverage Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Management.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Combs, J., Uhlenbruck, K. and Datta, A. 2023. Revisiting the impact of families on family firm performance. European Management Review, (In Press).
  • Dorsch, T., Jaskiewicz, P., Combs, J. and Wulf, T. 2023. Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession. Family Business Review, 36(4).
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Block, J., Wagner, D., Carney, M. and Hansen, C. 2021. How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis. Journal of World Business, 56(5): 101196.
  • Combs, J., Jaskiewicz, P., Rau, S. and Agrawal, R. 2021. Inheriting the legacy but not the business: When and where do family nonsuccessors become entrepreneurial? Journal of Small Business Management, 1-30.
  • Crook, R., Lux, S., Gentry, R. , Combs, J. and Jaskiewicz, P. 2020. Corporate political activity and sensitivity to social attacks: The case of family firms. Family Business Review, 33(2): 152-174.
  • Suddaby, R. and Jaskiewicz, P. 2020. Managing traditions: A critical capability for family business success. Family Business Review, 33(3): 234 –243.
  • Eddleston, K., Jaskiewicz, P. and Wright, M. 2019. Family Firms and Internationalization in the Asia-Pacific: The Need for Multi-level Perspectives. Asia Pacific Journal of Management.
  • Sinha, D.P., Jaskiewicz, P., Gibbs, J. and Combs, J. 2019. Managing history: How New Zealand's Gallagher Group used rhetorical narratives to reprioritize and modify imprinted strategic guideposts. Strategic Management Journal, 41(3): 557-589.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Combs, J. and Ketchen, D. 2019. Moving toward a generalizable theory of business-owning families‘ reference point shifts by embracing family differences (Dialogue). Academy of Management Review, 44(4): 916-918.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Neubaum, D., De Massis, A. and Holt, D. 2019. The Adulthood of Family Business Research Through Inbound and Outbound Theorizing. Family Business Review, 33(1): 10-17.
  • Neubaum, D. and Jaskiewicz, P. 2018. Agent, Stewards, and Capabilities: A review. Family Business Review, 21(2): 227-228.
  • Powell, G., Greenhaus, J., Jaskiewicz, P., Combs, J., Balkin, D. and Shanine, K. 2018. Family Science and the work-family interface: An interview with Gary Powell and Jeffrey Greenhaus. Human Resource Management Review, 28: 98-102.
  • Combs, J., Jaskiewicz, P., Shanine, K. and Balkin, D. 2018. Making Sense of HR in Family Firms: Antecedents, Moderators, and Outcomes. Human Resource Management Review, 28: 1-4.
  • Jaskiewicz, P. and Dyer, W.G. 2017. Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Dis-entangling Family Heterogeneity to Advance Family Business Research. Family Business Review, 30(2): 111-118.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Miller, D., Block, J. and Combs, J. 2017. Founder versus family owners' impact on pay dispersion among non-CEO top managers: Implications for firm performance. Journal of Management, 43(5): 1524-1552.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Combs, J., Shanine, K. and Kacmar, M. 2017. Introducing the family: A review of family science with implications for strategy. Academy of Management Annals, 11(1): 309-341.
  • Hoffmann, C., Jaskiewicz, P., Wulf, T. and Combs, J. 2017. The Effect of Transgenerational Control Intention on Family-Firm Performance: It Depends Who Pursues it. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(3): 629-646.
  • Jaskiewicz, P., Block, J., Miller, D. and Combs, J. 2017. The effects of founder and family ownership on hired CEOs' incentives and firm performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(1): 73-103.

Books

  • Jaskiewicz, P. and Rau, S. Enabling Next Generation Legacies. Ottawa: Family Enterprise Knowledge Hub Publishing, 2021.

Chapters in Books

  • Suddaby, R., Jaskiewicz, P., Israelson, T. and Chittoor, R. Traditional Authority in Social Context: Explaining the Relation between Types of Family and Types of Family-Controlled Business Groups. In Carney, M. and Dieleman, M.. De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, (Accepted).

Other Scholarly Contributions

  • (Book review) Tetzlaff, E. and Jaskiewicz, P. 2019. "Managing the Family Business Theory and Practice. Academy of Management Learning and Education".
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  • (Case) Jaskiewicz, P. and Ker, D. 2018. "Managing to Sell but Failing to Communicate: The Case of the Family Behind Dow Jones Case Author: Peter", Sage. (Reviewed)
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Funded Research during the last 7 years

Funded Research during the last 7 years
From-To Source Title * ** Role Amount
2023-2024 SSHRC Effective Compensation of Non-Family CEOs in Family Firms R C PI $ 23,661
2018-2022 SSHRC A family-based theory of the family firm R C PI $ 243,472
2018 University of Ottawa, Office of International Research Visiting Researchers Program R I PI $ 2,551
2017-2019 Telfer School of Management Research Grants (SMRG) Why Paying Female Managers Less Actually Costs More R I PI $ 9,562
2015-2017 Concordia University Curriculum Innovation Grant for Innovations in Entrepreneurship Education R I PI $ 4,000

LEGEND:

*Purpose
C: Contract (R and D) | E: Equipment Grant | R: Research Grant | S: Support Award | P: Pedagogical Grant | O: Other, U: Unknown

**Type
C: Granting Councils | G: Government | F: Foundations | I: UO Internal Funding | O: Other | U: Unknown

Role
PI = Principal Investigator | Co-I = Co-Investigator | Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator

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