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Do Family Meals Fuel Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses?

  Although this debate may never be fully settled, a recent study offers some interesting insight Read More...

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Author: Kimberly Eddleston

What If a Hedge Fund Invests in my Family Business?

While other researchers have studied how individual ownership types (like families) impact firm-level Read More...

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Authors: Matthias G. Leute , Yannick Bammens , Martin Carree and Jolien Huybrechts

How Family Firms Can Ensure Being Sustainable Pays Off

As family firm researchers, we were particularly interested in the question of whether family firms that Read More...

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Authors: Adrian Stutz , Sabrina Schell and Andreas Hack

How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’

We dedicated our research to better understanding where this superior skill in playing the wild cards Read More...

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Authors: Wojciech Czakon , Monika Hajdas and Joanna Radomska

A Family's Non-Financial Values Shape Its Sustainability Strategy

Based on a survey of 186 Italian family firms, a review of their company archives, and secondary research Read More...

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Authors: Josh Hsueh , Alfredo De Massis and Luis Gomez-Mejia

From Solo to Team: Helping Siblings Maintain Your Valuable Outside Relationships

Here are some of the other key insights from our research Two Types of Successors: Insider and Outsider Read More...

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Authors: Luis Cisneros , Bérangère Deschamps and Sebastien Geindre

Playing the Succession Game to Ensure Family Business Continuity

In our research paper published in 2016, we showed how game theory can be used to weigh the tangible Read More...

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Authors: Shital Jayantilal , Sílvia Jorge and Tomas M. Bañegil Palacios

Will Your In-Laws Help or Hurt Your Family Business?

Our research embraced family systems theory to reflect upon how the entry of an in-law into the family Read More...

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Authors: Marco Mismetti , Emanuela Rondi and Cristina Bettinelli

How Famous Family Firms Use Their History to Connect With Stakeholders

Through our research, we found that stories are part of a family business legacy, and communication and Read More...

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Authors: Luca Manelli , Vittoria Magrelli , Josip Kotlar , Federico Frattini and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli