BBus BPsych(Hons) MCouns PhD Dr Craig is the Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Family Business (ACFB) at Bond University in Australia where he is also an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business. His PhD in Behavioural Science, Masters Degree in Counselling and Psychology Honours Degree all explored challenges faced by individuals involved in either a current or future ownership capacity in a family-controlled business. His subsequent family business and entrepreneurship research, which has examined a wide range of topics including individual valued outcomes that drive behaviour, transgenerational entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, governance, public policy, branding, and managerial attitudes towards the natural environment, has appeared in leading international academic journals. He leads the entrepreneurship and family business group of scholars and instructors at Bond University and teaches subjects at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr Craig has also jointly developed Bond University’s Executive MBA in Family Business and is engaged with the family business practitioner community through his work with Family Business Australia (FBA), where he has jointly developed and delivers the FBA Family Business Directors’ Course and the Strategic Planning for Family Business Leaders Course. Dr Craig serves as an Associate Editor of the leading family business journal, Family Business Review (FBR), and on the editorial board of the Journal of Family Business Strategy (JFBS) and Journal of Management and Organizations (JMO) as well as on the global board of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) international research project. He works with the family business advisor community, primarily BDO and KPMG, in various research and skills development capacities in Australia and New Zealand. Dr Craig restricts his consulting activity to working with a select group of family businesses in the ACFB Learning Community initiative.
Articles
Natural environment, market orientation, and firm innovativeness: An organizational life cycle perspective (with Clay Dibrell and Eric Hansen), Journal of small business management (2012)
Drawing upon the corporate social responsibility literature, we investigate the moderating effects of the natural...
How managerial attitudes toward the natural environment affect market orientation and innovation (with Clay Dibrell and Eric N. Hansen), Journal of business research (2011)
This study investigates natural environmental attitude linkages held by strategic decision makers and hypothesizes that...
A study of Schumpterian (radical) vs. Kirznerian (incremental) innovations in knowledge intensive industries (with Cory Taylor Cromer and Clay Dibrell), Journal of strategic innovation and sustainability (2011)
In this study we draw upon Schumpeterian and Kirznerian theories of innovation, to frame through...
Toward a better understanding of family enterprising (with Morris J. Mervyn), International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (2010)
By integrating stewardship theory and entrepreneurial orientation perspectives we contribute to the understanding of the...
Strategically aligning family and business systems using the Balanced Scorecard (with Ken Moores), Journal of family business strategy (2010)
We take an integrated approach to align issues that influence the family and business, systems....
Books
Understanding family enterprise: A book of readings (with Ken Moores) (2011)
This collection of papers, written over a span of about 16 years by researchers associated...
Stars under the Southern Cross: The untold stories of Queensland family businesses (with Noel J. Lindsay), Stars under the Southern Cross: The untold stories of Queensland family businesses (2001)
This book, a Centenary of Federation celebration project, contains many Queensland family business stories that...
Book Chapters
Stewardship behaviour as governance in family businesses (with Clay Dibrell and Donald Neubaum), Contemporary issues in corporate governance (2011)
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To demonstrate the potential of stewardship behavior in the governance of family businesses, we introduce...
The Belcher family gain legitimacy in a new industry: Sailing into the unknown (with Wayne Irava and Ken Moores), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgererational entreneurship in family firms (2011)
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This chapter documents the challenges that entrepreneurial family businesses
face in gaining legitimacy in a new...
The Deague family: Learning entrepreneurship through osmosis (with Wayne Irava and Ken Moores), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms (2011)
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In this chapter, we introduce the idea of learning entrepreneurship by
osmosis. Drawing from the experiential...
Twin brothers in arms learn the family business (with Wayne Irava and Ken Moores), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms (2011)
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In this case, Moores and Barrett’s (2002) family business learning and life cycle framework has...
Observe, experience and integrate: Enhancing professional development using international study tours (with Li-Anne Woo, Titan Liu, and Timothy Kiessling), Innovations in teaching and learning: Approaches to professional development from across the disciplines (2010)
This chapter provides evidence of the positive benefits associated with adopting an international study tour...
Conference Papers
Intrapreneurship in multi-generational family businesses (with Robert P. Garrett and Clay Dibrell), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
Drawing from the agency and stewardship theory literature, this conceptual work explores the role of...
Stewardship climate scale: Measurement and an assessment of reliability and validity (with Clay Dibrell, Donald O. Neubaum, and Christopher H. Thomas), 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM). West meets East: Enlightening, balancing, transcending (2011)
Building on the seminal work of Davis, Schoorman, and Donaldson (1997), using a three study...
Strategic planning and flexibility: Governance control mechanisms in family and non-family firms (with Clay Dibrell and Donald O. Neubaum), 11th Annual IFERA World Family Business Research conference (2011)
We examine governance systems within the contexts of family and non-family owned firms. Specifically, we...
OVERCOMING THE LIABILITY OF THEORETICAL NEWNESS: THE CASE FOR STEWARDSHIP THEORY (SUMMARY) (with Clay Dibrell and Donald Neubaum), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2010)
To overcome stewardship theory’s liability of newness, we introduce a validated and reliable measure for...
Championing family business issues to influence public policy: Evidence from Australia (with Ken Moores), 9th International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) world family business research conference: Global perspectives on family business developments: Theory - practice - policy (2009)
This paper proposes a strategy for the family firm sector to gain the attention of...
Theses
An investigation and behavioural explanation of family businesser functioning, Theses (2004)
This research investigated the causes of behavioural difficulties among family businessers in two studies. Study...