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The stimulus package and family businesses
The economic stimulus plan signed into law on March 27 puts the Small Business Administration in charge of disbursing financial aid to small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. It
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Commentary
Author:
David Deeds
Coronavirus: 10 Things That Family Businesses Can Do Now
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks we will be publishing articles on familybusiness.org and EIX.org to help businesses weather the turmoil caused by COVID19. Visit our home page daily for more
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Commentary
Author:
David Deeds
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
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Features
Author:
Chris Farrell
Becoming the Boss: Advice for Women in Family Businesses
Every family business founded or led by a man eventually must go through a changing of the guard -- and today more women relatives are taking over the helm from a patriarch. Despite this progress,
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt
In a family business, family dynamics can make the business run smoothly or run aground. Many researchers have studied how family members relate to one another and how that affects company
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Applied and Practice
Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses
Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder. Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession
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Theory and Research
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
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Commentary
Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses
It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the
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Applied and Practice
Author:
Thomas Zellweger
Native American Entrepreneurship is Expanding
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 . Part of the
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Features
Author:
Chris Farrell
Following Your Second-Act Dreams When the World Says Don't
(This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX .) Second-act entrepreneurship is a certifiable trend,
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Features
Author:
Chris Farrell
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