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Connecting Business Research to Practice

Occasionally professors obtain federal research grants or corporate grants, but these represent a small Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Jon Eckhardt and James C Wetherbe

How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

rewards, levels, virtual goods, badges, achievements, leaderboard, challenges, goals, missions, resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

Six Ways that Small Firms Can Embrace Equity and Fairness

the burden of such expectations by being asked to do more work with the same (or oftentimes fewer) resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Aquesha Daniels, J.D. , Mariah Yates, Ph.D., MBA and Shane Spiller

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

Family firms tend to invest plenty of effort in human resources practices that nurture employees’ long-term Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion Can Be Good for Business

Diversity and inclusion programs are being embraced by firms of all sizes everywhere. In this interview, family business Editor Kim Eddleston talks with Professor Michelle Duguid, who runs the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations

New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

Seven Strategies to Survive the Post-Pandemic Labor Shortage

hope is the worst phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, family businesses are faced with several human resource Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Victor Boyi

How to Care for Your Team During a Crisis

Three factors matter here: defining tasks, allowing work flexibility and providing resources. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

How to Grow Your Family Business

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange .) Taking a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

Which Kinds of Workers Leave Family Firms?

Working in a family firm can be either satisfying or stifling for someone who’s not a relative. Interpersonal relationships can be stronger than they would be in non-family firms, and the work Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Franz Kellermanns , Nicole Gottschalck and Christina Guenther

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