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
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...
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....
Desk rejection: How to avoid being hit by a returning boomerang, Family business review (2010)
Manuscripts are desk rejected when they do not fit the mission of the journal or...
An investigation of hindsight bias in nascent venture activity (with Gavin Cassar), Journal of business venturing (2009)
We posit that individuals who are actively engaged in activities to develop their own venture...
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
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...
Australia’s Dennis Family Corporation (with Ken Moores), Culturally-sensitive Models of Family Businesses in Anglo Region - A Compendium using the GLOBE paradigm (2008)
This paper details how the Australia Dennis family has been able to professionalize their family...
From vision to variables: A scorecard to continue the professionalization of a family firm (with Ken Moores), Handbook of research on family business (2006)
This chapter builds on previous projects we have conducted that have concentrated on the key...
Working with family business: A content validity study of the Aspen Family Business Inventory (with S. Moncrief and J. Paul), Handbook of research on family business (2006)
Linking transgenerational value creation with natural environment and sustainability policy in family and non-family owned firms: Extending the agency-stewardship theory debate (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of entrepreneurship research: Proceedings of the 25th annual entrepreneurship research conference (2005)
In this paper, we extend the existing agency-stewardship theory debate by linking transgenerational value creation...
Conference Papers
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...
ACCESSION TOURNAMENTS: THE APPLICATION OF A GAME THEORY DERIVATIVE TO THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS ACCESSION PROCESS (INTERACTIVE PAPER) (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2009)
We argue that the recent governance and professionalization focus in family business research conversations, while...
LEGITIMIZING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN SMES: A STRATEGIC ISSUE INTERPRETATION PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (with Clay Dibrell), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (2009)
How do businesses legitimize their natural environmental strategic initiatives? In this research, we are concerned...
The impact of firm natural environment policy on the market orientation to innovation relationship in SMEs (Interactive paper) (with Clay Dibrell and Eric N. Hansen), Frontiers of entrepreneurship research (2009)
As the natural environment emerges as a strategic issue, conceptual linkages are leading to empirical...
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...