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Building on three specific attributes -- long-term orientation, social capital, and values-driven governance -- helps families build strengths for generations to come. Family businesses are often Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Douglas Hassell and Kimberly Eddleston
Running a family business doesn’t mean always seeing eye to eye, but you can still overcome challenges, resolve conflicts, and evolve as a team. At 13, I unknowingly took part in my first serious Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Rostyslav Vovk
Adopting all or even some PE investor strategies can add value and enhance competitiveness, especially when a successor takes over or the company may be sold. Family businesses must navigate a Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and David Hoeflmayr
A new report by the Family Business Research Foundation and the Centre for Economics and Business Research shows families control 93 percent of UK firms. The UK’s Family Business Research Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Martin Kemp
Kimberly Eddleston, Founding Editor of FamilyBusiness.org and a longtime contributor to its sister publication EIX, was recently honored by the Academy of Management (AOM) with its 2024 Practice of Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Catherine Buday
Modern organizations face increasing pressure to make sure women are well represented in their workforce, especially at the top. Business leaders, stakeholders, and policymakers around the world are Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Jessenia Davila , Luis Gomez-Mejia , Fernando Muñoz-Bullon and Maria J. Sanchez-Bueno
A comprehensive and convincing vision is crucial in helping family businesses be successful over generations. However, many lectures and course exercises that prepare future leaders merely ask Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Friedrich Kammerlander
For family businesses, branding goes well beyond logos and advertising slogans. It gets to the heart of what makes a family firm successful and admired by customers, suppliers, employees and other Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Meghan Lynch
Have you heard this before? “If it wasn’t for my in-laws, our family would be fine!” Such frustrated statements are typically followed by rants about how someone spends too lavishly, does not Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper
Most significant wealth is created through entrepreneurship, and in many countries family business plays a large role. But once the family business is established and successful, what further Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: David Werdiger