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Celebrating International Women's Day 2023

As a result, women often experience difficulties in obtaining funding from banks, private investors, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Catherine Buday

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

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

My research into virtual human resource development (Bennett, 2009, 2014) illustrates how employees learn Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

A New Entrepreneur Focuses on Staffing Plans

Deeds recommended that Wynn work on resource planning and projections by looking at her current client Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

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

Working from Home: Tips for Employees and Business Owners

Finally, social boundaries refer to the ability to devote specific time, energy and resources to individuals Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Jay Mulki

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

How to Grow Your Family Business

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 .) Taking a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon