Notre équipe

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 holds a University Research Chair in Enduring Entrepreneurship and leads the Family Enterprise Legacy Institute. 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 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, in his advising practice, provides support to the development of responsible Next Gen owners and effective Next Gen teams. He lives with his wife and their two children in Ottawa, Canada.

Evelyn Micelotta is the Desmarais Associate Professor in Family Business at Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada. She received a PhD in Strategic Management and Organization from the University of Alberta School of Business (Canada) and a PhD in Management Engineering from Milan Polytechnic (Italy). Dr. Micelotta’s research explores questions about the drivers of success and longevity of family businesses around the world. She has studied family branding strategies of the oldest family businesses, multi-centenary family businesses in Japan, corporate philanthropy in Chinese family firms and is participating in ongoing projects centered around innovation and strategic decisions in family businesses in Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands. She has also led or participated to several consulting projects with small-medium family companies. Her research has been published in international academic publications and she is currently Associate Editor of Family Business Review, a premier outlet publication for family business research.

Ramzi is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Telfer School of Management. He holds a Master’s degree in Management from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in the UK and a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from Ivey Business School in Canada. His research expertise lies at the intersections of entrepreneurship, family business and international business. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ford Foundation. He has also developed teaching case studies on how business families sustain and grow their ventures across generations. Ramzi has taught multiple courses in family business, strategic management and international business at Western University, Canada and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he worked as a management consultant. He is also a fourth-generation member of a 100-year old family business. He supported his family business in developing and executing a strategic plan to expand to markets in Europe and the Middle East.

James G. (Jim) Combs (PhD, Louisiana State University) is the Della Phillips Martha Schenck Chair of American Private Enterprise at the University of Central Florida and Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Jim’s research interests are primarily in the areas of family business, franchising, research synthesis, as well as corporate governance. Jim appears in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, and Organizational Research Methods. Jim has served as an Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, and the Journal of Management. A recent study highlighting the citation count of scholarly publications placed Jim’s scholarly impact among the top 2% of all management scholars. He has served on the Executive Committees of the Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Divisions of the Academy of Management, and as President of the Southern Management Association (SMA) where he is also a Fellow.

Sabine Rau is one of the most renowned experts for moderating succession processes and co- creating family protocols in Germany and abroad. She holds visiting professorships at the Telfer School of Management and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. Moreover, she teaches at the Université de Luxembourg. Until the beginning of 2017, Sabine was a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s College London. Before she started her academic career as a Research Fellow at INSEAD in Fontainebleau in 2001, Dr. Rau founded her own business and worked in her family’s business. In 2003, Professor Rau took over the presidency of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (ifera; www.ifera.org), which she led until 2007. She now serves on several boards as an independent director.

Ritu Kaur Virk est candidate au doctorat en gestion de l’École Telfer; elle étudie sous la direction du professeur Peter Jaskiewicz. Ses recherches portent sur les interactions entre les liens sociaux et la gouvernance dans les entreprises familiales. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en gestion de l’École de gestion John-Molson de l’Université Concordia, à Montréal, elle a auparavant exploré les alliances multipartites dans l’industrie aérienne. Son mémoire de maîtrise lui a d’ailleurs valu une mention honorable de l’Association des sciences administratives du Canada (ASAC) en 2017, qu’elle a reçu pour son travail. Pendant ses études à Concordia, Ritu Kaur Virk a eu l’occasion de participer à différents projets sur l’entrepreneuriat, les entreprises familiales, les liens sociaux et la responsabilité sociale des entreprises en tant qu’assistante de recherche pour divers membres du corps professoral. Entre sa maîtrise et son doctorat, elle a travaillé comme analyste en étude de marché chez Honda Canada, où elle a pu concevoir des sondages et travailler à de nombreux projets de recherche sur la satisfaction de la clientèle afin de cerner les principaux facteurs influençant les ventes et le degré de satisfaction envers les services.

Amlan Datta s’intéresse à l’entrepreneuriat et aux entreprises familiales. Ses recherches portent principalement sur les problèmes liés à la gestion, à la structure de rémunération et aux résultats organisationnels des entreprises familiales.

Amlan Datta est un économiste qualifié; il détient déjà un doctorat en économie du Fogelman College of Business and Economics de l’Université de Memphis, au Tennessee, de même qu’une maîtrise en économie appliquée de l’Université de Cincinnati.

Elizabeth Tetzlaff est candidate au doctorat en gestion à l’École de gestion Telfer de l’Université d’Ottawa; elle est dirigée par le professeur Peter Jaskiewicz. Détentrice d’un baccalauréat ès arts spécialisé en littérature anglaise de l’Université de King’s College et d’une maîtrise dans le même domaine de l’Université Dalhousie, elle s’intéresse particulièrement à l’entrepreneuriat transgénérationnel et aux entreprises familiales. Ses recherches portent en particulier sur les répercussions des troubles de santé mentale sur les familles et les entreprises familiales.