At the 60th International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference in Dubai in June 2015 Isabella Hatak received the highly prestigious JSBM Editor’s Choice Award for her research on “Problematizing Socioemotional Wealth as Dominant Paradigm in Family Firm Research”. This paper was co-authored by her colleagues Hermann Frank from WU Vienna and Rupert Hasenzagl from AKAD University.