FWO travel grant for a short stay abroad in research into emotions in family firm top management teams from 08/04 to 05/05/2019 at the Research Institute for Family Business at WU Wien Hasselt University
The topic of my PhD is related to emotions in family firms, a topic that still suffers from a lack of profound, empirical evidence (Shepherd, 2016). I specifically focus on emotional dissonance, which is defined as the phenomenon that occurs when there is a conflict between the emotions an individual experiences and the emotions he or she expresses to conform to display rules (Abraham, 1998). It is a construct that has its origins in research on ...