Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae (version en français) isabelle.le-breton@hec.ca Academic credentials B.A.A., HEC Montréal M.Sc., HEC Montréal DIC, University of London, Imperial College London Ph.D., University of London, Imperial College London

Positions

• HEC Montréal – Holder of the Chair of Succession and Family Enterprise (2012-…)
• HEC Montréal – Associate Professor (2011-…)
• HEC Montréal – Guest Professor at the rank of Associate Professor (2008-2011)
• University of Alberta, Edmonton – Senior Research Fellow (2001-…)
• Consultant or manager in various organizations: e.g.  McKinsey & Co. (Boston), Generation Net (Montreal), National Bank of Canada (Montreal), City of Montreal.

Research interests

• Family Enterprises
• Sustainability and Resilience of Firms
• Business Strategy and Governance
• Transfer or Take-Over of Companies
• Succession Planning

Courses commonly taught

• 2-411-00 – Management of Large Corporations
• 30-400-92 – Management
• 4-435-94 – Management: Environments and Practice  
• 6-418-11 – Understanding, Managing and Advising Family Enterprise

Research grants

• 2011-2014 – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – SSHRC (standard research grant).  When do family firms succeed? Miller, D. (principal investigator) & I. Le Breton-Miller (co-investigator).
• 2009‐2012 – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – SSHRC (standard research grant).  Governance, Strategy and Performance in North American Family Firms: An Embeddedness Reconciliation.  Le Breton-Miller, I. (principal investigator) & D. Miller (co-investigator).

Editorial boards

• Business Horizons
• Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice
• Family Business Review
• Journal of Family Business Strategy
• Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research

Representative publications

• Le Breton-Miller, I.; Miller, D. & Lester, R.H. (2011). Stewardship or Agency: A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses, Organization Science 22(3): 704-721. Family Firm Institute (FFI) Best Unpublished Research Paper Award, New York 2009.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H.  (2011). Family and Lone-Founder Ownership and Strategic Behavior: Social context, identity and institutional logics, Journal of Management Studies 48(1): 1-25. Journal of Management Studies Best Paper Prize for 2011, received in 2012.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H. (2010). Family Ownership and Acquisition Behavior in Publicly-Traded Companies, Strategic Management Journal 31(2): 201-214.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2009). Agency vs. Stewardship in Public Family Firms: A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 33(6): 1169-1191.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Scholnick, B. (2008). Stewardship vs. Stagnation: An Empirical Comparison of Small Family and Non-Family Businesses, Journal of Management Studies 45(1): 50-78.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I.; Lester, R.H. & Cannella, A.A. (2007). Are Family Firms Really Superior Performers? Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5): 829-858.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2005). Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. (translate in 6 languages)

Awards and distinctions

• Journal of Management Studies Best Paper Prize for 2011, received in August 2012.
• Prix Chenelière Éducation / Gaëtan Morin 2011 (Prize for best researcher at the rank of Associate Professor at HEC Montreal)
• Family Firm Institute (FFI), Best Unpublished Research Paper Award, New York 2010
• Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009
• New Hot Paper in Economics and Business by Essential Science Indicators of Thomson Science Watch (representing 0.1 of 1% of the most cited articles for the years 2007 & 2008)
• Best Family Business Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference 2007
• Family Firm Institute (FFI), Best Unpublished Research Paper Award, Miami 2007
• JP Morgan Private Bank, “Top 10 Books - Sixth Annual Summer Reading List, 2005” pour Managing for the Long Run Run. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Full list of publications

Book published -- peer-reviewed

• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2005). Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

  • Japanese translation, 同族経営はなぜ強いのか? , Random House Kodansha, 2005;
  • Italian translation, Mantenere il Successo, ETAS (RCS Libri), 2005;
  • Spanish translation, Gestionar a Largo Plazo, Ediciones Deusto, 2006;
  • Chinese translation, The Commercial Press, 2006;
  • Korean translation, Minumsa Press, 2009.
  • French translation, Réussir dans la durée : Leçons sur l’avantage concurrentiel des grandes entreprises familiales, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2010.

Articles published or accepted in peer-reviewed journals

• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H. (2013). Family Firm Governance, Strategic Conformity and Performance: Institutional versus Strategic Perspectives, Organization Science 24(1): 189-209.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2011).   Family Firms and the Advantage of Multi-Temporality, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 35(6): 1171-1177.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2011).  Governance, Social Identity, and Entrepreneurship Orientation in Closely Held Companies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 35(5): 1051-1076.
• Le Breton-Miller, I.; Miller, D. & Lester, R.H. (2011).  Stewardship or Agency: A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses, Organization Science 22(3): 704-721.
  • Family Firm Institute (FFI) Best Unpublished Research Paper Award, New York 2009.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H. (2011). Family and Lone-Founder Ownership and Strategic Behavior: Social context, identity and institutional logics, Journal of Management Studies 48(1): 1-25.
• Journal of Management Studies Best Paper Prize for 2011, received in August 2012.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. (2011)  Les facteurs clés de la réussite des successions au sein des entreprises familiales, Gestion: Revue internationale de gestion 36(1): 25-34.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & St-Cyr, L. (2011).  La transmission des entreprises : Assurer leur pérennité, Gestion: Revue internationale de gestion 36(1):10-11.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H. (2010). Family Ownership and Acquisition Behavior in Publicly-Traded Companies, Strategic Management Journal 31(2): 201-214.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2009). Agency vs. Stewardship in Public Family Firms: A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 33(6): 1169-1191.
• Miller, D.; Lee, J.; Chang. S. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2009). Filling the Institutional Void: The Social Behavior and Performance of Family vs Non-Family Technology Firms in Emerging Markets, Journal of International Business Studies40(5): 802-817.
  • Translated in french (2010) : Combler le “vide institutionnel”: le comportement social et les performances des entreprises familiales comparés à ceux des autres entreprises des marchés émergents dans le secteur des hautes technologies, Revue Management International 14(1): 67-83.
• Reprinted in Smyrnios, K.X., Poutziouris. P.Z. and Sanjay, G. (Eds.) (2013).  Handbook of Research on Family Business, 2^nd Edition. Cheltenham (UK), & Northampton (MA, USA): Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 40-62.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2008). To Grow or to Harvest? Governance, Strategy and Performance in Family and Lone Founder Firms, The Journal of Strategy and Management 1(1): 41-56.
  • Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Scholnick, B. (2008). Stewardship vs. Stagnation: An Empirical Comparison of Small Family and Non-Family Businesses, Journal of Management Studies 45(1): 50-78.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I.; Lester, R.H. & Cannella, A.A. (2007). Are Family Firms Really Superior Performers? Journal of Corporate Finance 13(5): 829-858.
  • New Hot Paper in Economics and Business by Essential Science Indicators of Thomson Science Watch (representing 0.1 of 1% of the most cited articles for the years 2007 & 2008).
  • Featured in “Research Briefs”, McFarlin, D.B. (2008). Does “family” matter to corporate performance?Academy of Management Perspectives22(2): 100-101.
• Miller, D.; Le Breton-Miller, I. & Lester, R.H. (2007). “Divided Loyalties: Governance, Conduct and Performance in Family vs. Other Businesses”, in G.T. Solomon (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD). Philadelphia (PA): Academy of Management, ISSN 1543-8643.
  • Best Family Business Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference 2007.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2007). Kicking the Habit: Broadening our Horizons by Studying Family Business, Journal of Management Inquiry 16(1): 1-4.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2006). Why do Some Family Businesses Out-Compete? Governance, Long-Term Orientations, and Sustainable Capability, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 30(6): 731-746.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2006). Priorities, Practices and Strategies in Successful and Failing Family Businesses: An Elaboration and Test of the Configuration Perspective, Strategic Organization 4(4): 379-407.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2006). The Best of Both Worlds: Exploitation and Exploration in Successful Family Businesses, in Baum, J. & al (eds.), Advances in Strategic Management: Strategy and Ecology, Vol 23. Oxford, UK: JAI/Elsevier, pp. 217-242.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2006). Family Governance and Firm Performance: Agency, Stewardship and Capabilities, Family Business Review 19(1): 73-87.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2005). Management Insights from Great and Struggling Family Businesses, Long Range Planning 38(6), 517-530.
• Miller, D.; Hartwick, J. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2004). How to detect a management fad – and distinguish it from a classic, Business Horizons 47(4): 7-16.
• Le Breton-Miller, I.; Miller, D. & Steier, L. (2004). Towards an Integrative Model of Effective FOB Succession, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice 28(4): 305-328.
• Miller, D.; Steier, L. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2003). Lost in time: Intergenerational Succession, Change and Failure in Family Business, Journal of Business Venturing 18(4): 513-531.
  • Reprinted in Poutziouris. P.Z., Smyrnios, K.X. & Klein S.B. (Eds.). (2006). The Family Business Research Handbook, Cheltenham (UK) & Northampton (MA, USA): Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.371-387.
  • Translated in french (2004): Trois modèles classiques d'échec de la succession intergénérationnelle dans l'entreprise familiale, Gestion: Revue internationale de gestion 29(3): 109-119.
  • FBN Research Honours 2006 finalist for the best published article on family business practices.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2003). Challenge versus Advantage in Family Business, Strategic Organization 1(1): 127-134.
• Chaussé, R.; Le Breton, I. & Tahmi, E. (1994). Les entrepreneurs, une affaire de famille, ASAC - Entrepreneurship 15(15): 40-58.

Sundry articles and case studies

• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2006). Lessons from Family Firms about Managing for the Long Run, Leader to Leader Magazine No. 39, 13-17.
• Le Breton-Miller, I. & Miller, D. (2005). “The Most Successful Form of Enterprise”, in Shefsky, L.E. & Ward, J.L. (eds).  2005 Kellogg Family Business Conference: Best Practices & New Ideas, May 17-18, 2005. Evanston (IL): Kellogg School of Management / Northern Trust / Duff & Phelps, pp. 42-44.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I.  (2005). Who gets what in the carve-up? (case), Families in Business no 23, 12-13.
• Miller, D. & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2005). How to bridge the gap when two partners have opposing visions for the company’s operation (case), Families in Business no. 21, 18-19.

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