Ismael Barros Contreras is a Ph.D. in Business Economics, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. He is Senior Lecturer in the Commercial Engineering School at Universidad Austral de Chile. He has been School Director of Commercial Engineering and the Head of the Management Department of the Universidad Austral de Chile. His teaching area has been the financial accountant, management control, and family business. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Valladolid (Spain), and Visiting Researcher of the Centre for Family Business at Lancaster University (UK). His research areas are strategic management and family business.