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Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

Opening up control allows the firm to tap non-family resources and talent but also risks conflict over Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

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

The Leadership Traits Shared by Successful Entrepreneurs

  Third, working with great passion and tenacity, and developing distinctive resourcefulness, are Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Glauser and Dan Holland

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

consistently shows up late for work, fails to complete work properly and on time, misuses company resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

Advance Preparation Students should be provided with bourbon industry resources (see the links at the Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

  Developing Competent Owners for a Thriving Legacy The Merck family dedicates significant resources Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp

How 'Job Creators' Think

influence over their firms’ growth than established macro explanations such as population ecology or resource Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

Developing responsible owners in family business

Managing resources: Linking unique resources, management, and wealth creation in family firms. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

In the case of FedEx, it was about obtaining government approval to acquire larger aircraft. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe