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Attitudes Towards Money Can Cloud Family Business Decisions

While some families prioritize paying generous dividends over re-investing profits to grow the business Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Anneleen Michiels

Developing Your Business Family Strategy: Where to Start and What to Consider

This is interesting given that as families grow, it can be more difficult to have a shared and united Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Isabel C Botero , Arist von Schlippe and Torsten Groth

How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

family’s business together, it becomes important to distinguish between “emotional” conflicts and “strategic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

Does the Family Matter? Improving Executive Compensation Practices in Family Firms

Yet, as the issues noted above show, the family plays a central role in strategic decisions such as executive Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Roland Kidwell , Anneleen Michiels and Isabel C Botero

'CHAOS' Brings Order to Family Businesses

This can be challenging when families don’t want to give up the strategic freedom they’ve enjoyed. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Salvatore Sciascia

Successful Successions are Never Smooth

Strategic Management Journal, 22(8), 725–745. Pieper, T. M. (2007). Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

It’s Complicated: Managing Succession in Cases of Divorce and Adoption

In cases of divorce, children often grow up in two very different environments, each with different sets Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann

Do You Treat In-Laws Like the Family Business Outlaws ?

Alignment is very different from harmony, as military mastermind and pioneering strategic thinker Colonel Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper

How to Fix Succession Conflicts Stemming From Complicated Families

Our observations showed that kids growing up in these far-off families might still perceive the succession Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Rethmann and Nadine Kammerlander

Divorce Can Hollow out a Family Business — But it Doesn’t Have to

before his own parents divorced, he was involved in leading their business — which was healthy and growing Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek