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Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

  The five dimensions are briefly explained below: Amount of control in family hands Finance and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Don't Send Your Kids to Work Outside the Family Business Just Yet!

They have deep business knowledge (i.e., strategy, finance, HR), and they understand the family business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan

How to Grow Your Family Business

hiring the next employee, adding a new product or service, opening a second location or borrowing to finance Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

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

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

and a questionnaire, we measured the degree of “Family Social Capital,” (FSC), a snapshot of the resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes

How Family Businesses Can Attract and Keep the Best People

than large corporations (Portuguez Castro & Gómez Zermeo, 2021), since they lack sufficient resources Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Qizhen Cai and Kimberly Eddleston

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

Encouraging Family Business Members to Go the Extra Mile

Family firms typically emphasize one of two management approaches: stewardship, which stresses participation, adaptability and family harmony; and agency, which emphasizes discipline, management and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Franz Kellermanns and Roland Kidwell

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