Event Details

The Family Business Research and Practice Day 2026 will be held at Lancaster University Management School and will focus on place, rooted beliefs and values. This event is in person and sponsored by the CFB.

Purpose of event:

• To bring researchers for a multi-disciplinary conversation around the importance of place, tradition, creed and commerce for business.

The event aims to cover the following topics:

• The role of place in the development of entrepreneurship.
• The influence of values and beliefs over time and in times of crisis.
• How businesses rely on the values they are rooted in to thrive in challenging times.

Programme

09:30 – 09:50 - Welcome and coffee

09:50 – 10:00 - Update from the Centre for Family Business at LUMS

Dr. Allan Discua Cruz, Director, Centre for Family Business, LUMS

10:00 – 10:50

Session 1

Social entrepreneurship in sacred Church buildings

Prof. Helen Haugh, University of Cambridge

10:55 – 11:45

Session 2

Understanding social legacy as tradition-constituted

Prof. Nicholas Burton, Northumbria University

11:50 – 13:00

Networking and Light Lunch

If you can come for one of the sessions or both, we would be delighted to see you there.

This is an in-person event.

For catering purposes, please confirm your attendance no later than April 15^th, 2026