SEARCH RESULTS


Better Let Your Brother Do It: Men Are Still Preferred in CEO Successions

We studied what many other researchers have found and did our own research, through telephone interviews Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Jan-Philipp Ahrens , Melania Riefolo , Annegret Hauer and Katharina Siegert

Next-Gens Want Peers, Not Parents, to Lead Them

They are now the largest living generation, according to the Pew Research Center. Read More...

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Authors: Alessandro Cirillo , Barbara Maggi , Salvatore Sciascia , Valentina Lazzarotti and Federico Visconti

How to Encourage Devotion Among Nonfamily Employees

  We know from research that people are most motivated when three conditions are present: they identify Read More...

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Authors: Josep Llach , Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso and Dr. Sharon M. Danes

Should Former Leaders Stay Involved in the Family Firm?

Ahrens et al. (2018) researched several hundred family firm succession cases, examining when and under Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Melania Riefolo , Sena Özkara , Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Niloufar Nekouei

Single Family Offices as Owners: Long-Term Investors or Financial Optimizers?

     Explore the Research Capital structure of single family office-owned firms. Read More...

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Authors: Joern Block , Reza Fathollahi and Onur Eroglu

Managing Emotional Minefields Within Family Businesses

Our research also found that families adopt “rules” for how to display their emotions (also known as Read More...

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Authors: Dr. Ayoosha Saleem , Francesco Barbera , Simon de Jong and Arvid Hoffmann

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

Yet research by Kammerlander and van Essen (2017)has shown that family firms are among the most innovative Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck