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Celebrating International Women's Day 2023

As a result, women often experience difficulties in obtaining funding from banks, private investors, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Catherine Buday

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

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

Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict

management approaches and summarize research that reveals outcomes associated with each style, and 3) obtain Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

How to Grow Your Family Business

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange .) Taking a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

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

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

My research into virtual human resource development (Bennett, 2009, 2014) illustrates how employees learn Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

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