Contemporary Issues In Family Business Annual Lecture 2021

Contemporary Issues in Family Business Annual Lecture 2021 

Casting Your Net: Family Business and Innovation

Professor George Kailis, Chair of the Commonwealth Fisheries Association (CFA), will speak about the importance of innovation and the sources for innovation in a family business.

Professor Kailis is Executive Chair of the M.G. Kailis Group, one of Australia’s largest fishing and marine businesses and a long-standing WA family business, and Adjunct Professor, Management and Law, University of Notre Dame.

About the lecture series

The annual Contemporary Issues in Family Business Lecture is held each September, and is supported by Family Business Australia. Family businesses are the backbone of the Australian economy with almost 70% of businesses in Australia being family owned and operated.

Each year the lecture is held to coincide with National Family Business Day and to recognise the contribution that family business make to the Australian community, economy and culture. The lecture hosts an eminent business or academic practitioner who gives an address on a contemporary issue facing family business.

Further Information

Dr Donella Caspersz ([email protected])