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Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

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

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

How to Grow Your Family Business

hiring the next employee, adding a new product or service, opening a second location or borrowing to finance Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

How Family Businesses Can Attract and Keep the Best People

than large corporations (Portuguez Castro & Gómez Zermeo, 2021), since they lack sufficient resources Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Qizhen Cai and Kimberly Eddleston

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

Family firms tend to invest plenty of effort in human resources practices that nurture employees’ long-term Read More...

Category: Research Insight

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

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 Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Franz Kellermanns and Roland Kidwell

Which Kinds of Workers Leave Family Firms?

Working in a family firm can be either satisfying or stifling for someone who’s not a relative. Interpersonal relationships can be stronger than they would be in non-family firms, and the work Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Franz Kellermanns , Nicole Gottschalck and Christina Guenther

Developing Competent Owners and Stewards for a Lasting Family Business

 Yet only few families dedicate enough resources to ensure that their family members become capable Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now

Make your history a strategic resource by bringing together the family to reflect among generations on Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

These family firms appear eager to pursue approaches that improve their human resource management and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano

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

It’s been proven that dedicated employees who go above and beyond what the job specifies help their companies be more efficient and keep customers happy. Other research has shown that leaders can Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison