Family businesses and business families in cultural context: interdisciplinary updates for family business research

Tobias Koellner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Witten/Herdecke University and heads his own research group. He received his PhD in social anthropology in 2011 from the University of Leipzig based on his research on Russian entrepreneurs and their relations to morality and Orthodox Christianity. Prior to that (2006–2009), he was a member of the research group “Religion and Morality in European Russia” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2019, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, awarded him habilitation in general sociology. He is associate editor of SN Social Sciences. Recently, he published articles in Europe–Asia Studies, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship and Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Steffen Roth is a Full Professor of Management at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France, and a Full Professor of Social Sciences, Founding Director of the Next Society Institute, and President of the Senate at Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany; and Member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. Steffen holds the Title of Adjunct Professor (venia legendi) in Economic Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland, and a Habilitation (facultas docendi) in Economic and Environmental Sociology awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. He earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva and a PhD in Economics and Management from the Chemnitz University of Technology. Currently, he serves as the field editor for social systems theory of Systems Research and Behavioural Science and as a member of the editorial board of Sociology. The journals his research has been published in include Journal of Business Ethics, Sociology of Health and Illness, Journal of Business Research, Ecological Economics, Administration and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Management Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Futures.