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How Older Family Businesses Can Keep the Magic Going

 As new generations assume management roles in well-established, thriving businesses, these new Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Sabine Rau , Sabrina Schell and Arndt Werner

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

study measured the firms’ return on equity (ROE), the family’s payoff from its investment of its wealth Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes

Which Kinds of Workers Leave Family Firms?

researchers have found, we sought to compare non-family blue-collar and white-collar workers, with management Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Franz Kellermanns , Nicole Gottschalck and Christina Guenther

Encouraging Family Business Members to Go the Extra Mile

Family firms typically emphasize one of two management approaches: stewardship, which stresses participation Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Franz Kellermanns and Roland Kidwell

How to Grow Your Family Business

When there’s more than one family member on the management team dealing with growth, it’s imperative Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

How Family Businesses Can Attract and Keep the Best People

This requires that they evaluate their current human resource management practices and make the changes Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Qizhen Cai and Kimberly Eddleston

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

The five dimensions are briefly explained below: Amount of control in family hands Finance and management Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Three Strengths that Can Help Family Firms Survive Covid

least in well-functioning family businesses, stakeholders have reached a stasis in which they can manage Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Doug Baumoel

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

Your model for managing employees needs to evolve over time, and tough economic and competitive periods Read More...

Category: Research Insight

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

She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader

Family business managers and advisors must recognize that employees’ motivations and behaviors are different Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison