Who we are

FABULA is the LIUC – Cattaneo University lab dedicated to the study of family businesses.  FABULA has three distinctive elements:

• focus on the role of new generations of family entrepreneurs in the family firm in determining strategies and results with regard to post-crisis restructuring, growth, innovation, internationalisation, opening up of capital, networking and open innovation, etc;
• participatory working method, involving entrepreneurs, managers, professionals and institutions in identifying topics to be studied;
• international dimension, thanks to collaboration with Italian and foreign universities.

FABULA team:

• Federico Visconti, Valentina Lazzarotti and Salvatore Sciascia (Full Professors);
• Andrea Urbinati and Rafaela Gjergji (Researchers);
• Giovanna Afeltra, Barbara Maggi, Sofia Brunelli and Lorenzo Cervello (PhD students).

FABULA is a member of the international network European Family Business Centers (https://eufbc.org/centers/).

Why FABULA?

The Latin word, in Italian ‘favola’, with its meaning of ‘telling a tale’, is a characteristic methodological tool of the Lab. Technically, ‘fabula’ is ‘the chronological succession of events that make up the plot of a narrative text’: it evokes the passage of time and the succession of events involving different entrepreneurial generations, bringing with it the transmission of knowledge and know-how.

What do we do?

FABULA aims to:

• deepen knowledge of the role of young family entrepreneurs through qualitative and quantitative research;
• contribute to the dissemination of these issues through articles, publications, conferences, videos and webinars;
• enrich the training LIUC offers in this area, supporting the Family Business Management pathway of the Business Administration degree;
• collaborate with LIUC Business School – and in particular with the ‘Strategic Management and Family Business‘ Centre – on applied research assignments.