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Successful, long-lasting business families share an understanding of what is important to them, what they want to do together, and how they want to work together to achieve their collective goals and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Tom Rüsen , Isabel C Botero , Arist von Schlippe and Torsten Groth
First of a two-part series Can you quantify your board’s contribution to the performance of your family business? Even if you can’t put a number on it, you should have a keen sense of how much Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann
Family businesses are unique, with many advantages that stand them in good stead during times of crisis. While there are unique strengths for family-owned firms working in a world changed by Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Doug Baumoel
“When owners start talking about their rights rather than their responsibilities, a family business is in trouble“. (Smith Lanier) Introduction Management and organization research and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan
Women can be indispensable in times of trouble, but the glass ceiling and the glass cliff still hold them back, even at family firms. Seven things to think about. Crisis is part of every Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Rania Labaki
EDITOR'S NOTE: This popular article from three years ago is still relevant today. The author has updated it for 2023. Three years ago, we were emerging from a fiercely battled presidential election Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Carol Wittmeyer
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes
It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Thomas Zellweger
Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici
When it comes to innovation, family firms often are trapped in an “ability–willingness paradox”: the superior ability to innovate is unrealized because of fear of innovation. Our research 1 Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar