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ESRA MEMILI, PhD is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship with Tenure and Margaret Van Hoy Hill Dean’s Notable Scholar at the Bryan School of Business and Economics at University of North Carolina- Greensboro. A scholar in family business and entrepreneurship, she is the author of more than 50 accepted and/or published manuscripts that have appeared in the entrepreneurship and family business journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Family Business Review, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and others. She is an Associate Editor at Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Family Business Strategy, and a member of the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Management Studies, Family Business Review, Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development. She has been a Guest Editor for Special Issues on family firms at Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Journal, Journal of Family Business Studies, International Journal of Financial Studies, and Journal of Family Business Management. She is the recipient of Family Owned Business Institute Research Scholars of Award and Grant (2009 & 2012). She has over 100 international, national, and regional academic conference presentations and won Best Paper and Research Proposal awards at IFERA (2017); Journal of Family Business Management (2013), USASBE [2013, 2014(2), & 2015]; FERC (2013 & 2017); Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (2013); SMA (2011); and Academy of Management (2008). She is also invited as guest speaker/presenter/commentator to international and national academic conferences such as Academy of Management annual meeting. She is the winner of Family Firm Institute 2012 Best Quantitative Dissertation Award. Her research appeared in media: WalletHub.com (2017) in the U.S.; Impulse Wissen (2013) in Hamburg, Germany, and Healio Orthotics/Prosthetics Business News (2013) in the U.S. Dr. Memili has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at School of Business, Tecnolo—gico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, Mexico (Fall 2015); a Visiting Scholar at Leuphana University of Luneburg in Germany (Summer 2015) and Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey (Summer 2014), and a Visiting Professor to teach a doctoral seminar on family firms at Virginia Tech, Hospitality & Tourism Management (2015). Dr. Memili served as the Global Scholar Development Committee Chair at the Academy of Management-Entrepreneurship Division (2018-2021) and IFERA Board Member (2016-Present). She also served as USASBE 2017 conference SIG Vice Chair and Track Co-Chair (Philadelphia, PA); USASBE 2018 conference Family Business SIG Chair, Track Co-Chair, and Research Panel Co-Organizer (Los Angeles, CA). Dr. Memili is Chair of the UNCG Student Learning Enhancement Committee and Chair of the Entrepreneurship Program Assessment at the Bryan School of Business and Economics. She is 2020-21 Senior Research Excellence Award Winner at the Bryan School of Business and Economics and Honoree at UNCG Provost’s Office for Faculty Excellence in Research & Creativity 7 times last 7 years (2015-Present).

Books co-edited and co-authored by Dr. Memili are:

. Memili, E., & Chang, E. P. C. (Co-Editors) (2021). Book Series: Palgrave Studies in Family Business Heterogeneity. Palgrave Publishing, New York, NY.

. Ramadani, V., Memili, E., Palalic, R., & Chang, E. P. C. (Co-Authors) (2020). Textbook: Entrepreneurial Family Business. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

. Memili, E., & Dibrell, C. (Co-Editors) (2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms. Palgrave Publishing, New York, NY. Co-edited 34 book chapters submitted by 34 author teams (total 98 authors around the globe).