The Science Award of the Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ was awarded for the 14th time in 2017. We are particularly pleased that a cooperation project between employees of the Institutes of Corporate Finance and Management Control & Consulting at the JKU Linz and the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences was honoured. Dean Prof. Helmut Pernsteiner, Prof. Markus Dick (both Institute of Corporate Finance), Prof. Birgit Feldbauer-Durstmüller (Institute of Management Control & Consulting) and Christine Mitter (University of Applied Sciences Salzburg) received the coveted prize for their joint publication "The Impact of Finance and Governance on the Internationalisation Modes of Family Firms". The publication was published in the European Journal of International Management.

Dick, M., Mitter, C., Feldbauer-Durstmüller, B., & Pernsteiner, H. (2017). The impact of finance and governance on the internationalisation modes of family firms. European Journal of International Management, 11(1), 42-64.