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Many family firms are not fully sure of their legacy and how to communicate it to others. Research suggests ways to get a better handle on it. Family businesses are the most prevalent type of Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Miruna Radu-Lefebvre , Jim Davis and William Gartner
Family firms are strongly influenced by the behavior of family members in those organizations, thus toxic behavior is a major risk for the continuity and success of any family firm. A great deal of Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Benjamin McLarty and Daniel T. Holt
The stories that families tell about their past matter. Here are some ways that families can begin to use the past to serve their present-day goals. Family firms often frame their history as a Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Christina Lubinski and William Gartner
Families can get emotionally attached to laggards in their portfolios and avoid taking tough but necessary action, putting the entire enterprise in peril. When a family business portfolio includes Read More...
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Authors: Marina Palm , Vanessa Diaz Moriana and Nadine Kammerlander
Across a range of disciplines, researchers have sought to identify the “bad behavior” of family firms as well as its causes and effects. Such topics include family conflict, sibling rivalry, Read More...
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Authors: Roland Kidwell , Kimberly Eddleston , Linda Kidwell , John Cater and Ellison Howard
Family businesses often have not only financial wealth but also nonfinancial values that make them different from nonfamily companies. For instance, the family’s significant control over ownership, Read More...
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Authors: Josh Hsueh , Alfredo De Massis and Luis Gomez-Mejia
Family business owners often depend on legal advice to control ownership changes and uphold a functional balance between owners. This legal advice on ownership issues spans both family law and Read More...
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Authors: Kajsa Haag , Hanna Almlöf , Marina Madsen and Mette Neville
Research shows that family businesses enjoy numerous reputational benefits in their relationships with stakeholders ( Astrachan , 2021). Customers usually believe they provide better quality; Read More...
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Authors: Philipp Jaufenthaler , Oliver Koll , Reinhard Prügl and Maximilian Lude
We already know that family firms differ from non-family firms by their powerful commitment to core values that subordinate profit to other goals. While non-family companies use rationality and Read More...
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Authors: Roy Suddaby , Wilson Ng , Natalia Vershinina , Gideon Markman and Matthew Cadbury
We have always been deeply interested in the topic of why and how business families build up a portfolio of businesses, and how they manage this portfolio successfully in the long run. From many Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Philipp Sieger , Naveed Akhter and Francesco Chirico