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CORVALLIS - Mark Green, director of Oregon State University's Austin Family Business Program, has been selected to lead an international team of researchers studying entrepreneurial activity in family business.

Working as a project leader for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Green and his research team will focus on developing questions that will allow them to analyze entrepreneurial trends in family business throughout the world. Their results will be incorporated into the annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor study.

The GEM study, conducted since 1999 by Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and the London Business School, is a universal analysis of entrepreneurship and economic growth. With funding from the New York-based George and Robin Raymond Family Business Institute, detailed analysis of family business performance and behavior from 26 countries will now be collected and included in the study, Green said.

"The GEM data is a huge data set that leads to a great deal of research worldwide on the topic of entrepreneurship," said Green, who also holds the A.E. Coleman Chair in Family Business at OSU. "GEM findings drive a discussion about the economic, political and social conditions that are required to enhance entrepreneurship throughout the developed world.

"Once the studies come out, this work will extend the research base of the OSU Austin Family Business Program and expand international recognition of our work here. It will also have spill-over effects with colleagues across the OSU campus and will help in developing the entrepreneurial focus of the university," Green said.

Green took over as director of the College of Business' Austin Family Business Program at OSU in 2001. Prior to his arrival in Corvallis, he was assistant dean at Willamette University's Atkinson Graduate School of Management in Salem and a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver.

He grew up working in his family's printing business in San Diego before earning his bachelor's degree at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and his master's in business administration at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management. He earned his doctorate in California at the Claremont Graduate School.