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Build the Strong Family Bonds That Lead to Business Success

Strong emotional bonds between family members underpin the success of family businesses. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Helping Next-Gens Envision Their Family Firm’s Future Success

A comprehensive and convincing vision is crucial in helping family businesses be successful over generations Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Friedrich Kammerlander

Rural Entrepreneurs are Finding Success

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

Category: Features

Author: Chris Farrell

Retirement Options and their Consequences for Small Business Owners

In order from closest to farthest proximity, the retirement options include: family succession, retire Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Valeria Alterman and Ariane Froidevaux

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

Characteristics of the Firm Succession is major challenge for family businesses and successful successions Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Let the Next Generation of Family Firm Leaders Chart Their Own Path

Lena not only managed to set up a successful online store for her parents' furniture company within six Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Klaus Lüber and Nadine Kammerlander

Developing Competent Owners and Stewards for a Lasting Family Business

And while many succeed in developing a successful organization, they struggle with managing the increasingly Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

Don't Send Your Kids to Work Outside the Family Business Just Yet!

With customers, this may be a particular threat to business success, since it takes time and care to Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Thicker Than Water: Balancing Individual Career Goals and the Family Business

little research has been done on this topic (although many studies have focused on intergenerational succession Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Achtenhagen , Kajsa Haag , Kajsa Hultén and Jen Lundgren

Founders: Let Next-Gens be Entrepreneurial

Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship at family businesses declines with every successive generation. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston