Editorial

Isabel C. Botero, PhD, is the Director of the Family Business Center and an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Louisville. She is a Fellow for the Family Firm Institute and has an Advanced Certificate in Family Wealth Advising. Her research focuses on strategic communication processes and next-generation issues in family enterprises. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Family Business Strategy. She is a past FOBI Scholar, and has over 40 publications in journals such as Family Business Review, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Journal of Family Business Management, Journal of Management Studies and Management Communication Quarterly.

Tomasz A. Fediuk is the Managing Director of Family Enterprise Resource Management, a research and advising firm helping family enterprises around the world. He obtained his PhD in Communication at Michigan State University. His research interests center on the opportunities and challenges of business ownership, including entrepreneurial ventures and trans-generational family enterprises. Tom has taught at the University of Minnesota Duluth and at Illinois State University. He also spent one year as a visiting scholar in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University and the business school in Aarhus, Denmark. He has over 15 publications in journals such as Journal of Family Business Strategy, Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research and Corporate Communications: An International Journal.