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How Three Women Upheld Family Values and Thrived Despite Adversity

the Grandmother: 1944+ In this era a communist political regime centralized labor, capital, and resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Boyka Simeonova and Mat Hughes

Don't Send Your Kids to Work Outside the Family Business Just Yet!

Prioritize building alignment and cohesion by systematically investing time and financial resources in Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

Opening up control allows the firm to tap non-family resources and talent but also risks conflict over Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

rewards, levels, virtual goods, badges, achievements, leaderboard, challenges, goals, missions, resources Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

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

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion Can Be Good for Business

Diversity and inclusion programs are being embraced by firms of all sizes everywhere. In this interview, family business Editor Kim Eddleston talks with Professor Michelle Duguid, who runs the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Small Business Owners Can Overcome Terrible Regulations

documented, and nowhere more so than in the area of occupational licensing where individuals must first obtain Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: John Kramer and Nick Sibilla

Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict

management approaches and summarize research that reveals outcomes associated with each style, and 3) obtain Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

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