We are pleased to inform you that we have lined up another group of excellent presenters for the 3rd INGLLE on Sept. 5th (Sat.) This time, we first time welcome a Finnish scholar, Dr. Marita Rautiainen, Asst. Professor from LUT University, Finland, an expert researcher of family business, she will be sharing with ICC Community, first time ever, a case of a Finnish enterprise of 300 years old. Another novel research is on Mukoyoshi (son-in-law) system of Japan, which had facil

Our ICC community is formed of international researchers and scholars from around the world who share the same goal of exploration of the factors of business sustainability, survival and succession, particularly in family business. This month, I would like to announce a new publication and a journal paper from our ICC Community: 1) Tobias Kollner, Heiko Kleve, “Doing Business Family-How Business Families Create Identity, Meaning and Cohesion”, WIFU Foundation, Witten, Germa

Greetings from Tokyo, Japan. It is our pleasure to announce the 3rd INGLLE Meeting of 2026. We would like to invite scholars and researchers from around the world who are engaged in research on our three core themes: Longevity, Sustainability, and Family Business. Since the launch of INGLLE in 2023, we have hosted 43 presentations. The cumulative number of participants has exceeded 350, representing as many as 14 countries, with the highest level of international participatio

The International Research Centre for Centennial Management (ICC) is pleased to announce the 4th ICC-INGLLE Conference 2026, to be held in Kyoto, Japan, from December 10 (Thu) to 13 (Sun), 2026. The main conference takes place on December 12 (Sat) at Meitokukan Hall, Doshisha University ― an institution with a proud 151-year history ― in a hybrid online/offline format in English (with Zoom caption translation). From 13:00 to 19:00 (Japan Standard Time), seven ambitious and th

The 2026 INGLLE is scheduled to be held according to the following schedule. March 14th Sat. June 6th Sat. September 5th Sat. December 13th Sun. Details will be provided separately, so please wait a little longer. Please register for participation via the link below. https://forms.gle/u9iiEpUoWwmqyc2ZA

Ladies and Gentlemen, Happy New Year. Looking back, this initiative strategically began in the 2020s, when academic books on Japanese long-lived companies were published simultaneously in both the East and the West. In China, a research team led by Professor Li Xinchun of Sun Yat-sen University published research results, including long-term field surveys, in their native languages in 2020, and in Germany, the Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU) published them in 2023