Prof. Dr. Manuela Weller from the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen participated in the "International Family Business Conference" hosted by the American University of Sharjah. The university in the United Arab Emirates organized the conference for the second time – this time as an online event. The conference focused on the historical, institutional, spatial, and social context in which family businesses develop.

Prof. Weller's work at the Department of Economics at THM focuses primarily on the fields of SME management and business start-ups. Together with colleagues from Germany, Oman, Pakistan, and Poland, she presented various papers at the conference on the specific characteristics of family businesses in Pakistan, the role of women in business succession in Poland, and a strategic model for the development of family businesses in emerging markets.

The two-day conference was attended by 360 scientists from 50 countries.