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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...

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

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

Human Resources was an important partner in this process. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

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 New Entrepreneur Focuses on Staffing Plans

Deeds recommended that Wynn work on resource planning and projections by looking at her current client Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

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

How to Grow Your Firm the Right Way

Sustainable Growth Rate Professor Robert Higgins, Professor of Finance at the University of Washington-Seattle Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

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

Celebrating International Women's Day 2023

the perfect occasion to reflect on the impact and progress of women entrepreneurs and to provide resources Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Catherine Buday

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