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Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

Characteristics of the Firm Succession is major challenge for family businesses and successful successions Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Master Three Perilous Stages of Family Business Transition

Succession is the biggest threat to the robust returns of family business ownership. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Ryan Renteria

Let the Next Generation of Family Firm Leaders Chart Their Own Path

Lena not only managed to set up a successful online store for her parents' furniture company within six Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Klaus Lüber and Nadine Kammerlander

Developing Competent Owners and Stewards for a Lasting Family Business

And while many succeed in developing a successful organization, they struggle with managing the increasingly Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

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

With customers, this may be a particular threat to business success, since it takes time and care to Read More...

Category: Commentary

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

How 'Job Creators' Think

enhanced performance.Thus, we offer the following hypothesis, where total employment growth represents success Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

Thicker Than Water: Balancing Individual Career Goals and the Family Business

little research has been done on this topic (although many studies have focused on intergenerational succession Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Achtenhagen , Kajsa Haag , Kajsa Hultén and Jen Lundgren

Founders: Let Next-Gens be Entrepreneurial

Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship at family businesses declines with every successive generation. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

Alfredo De Massis talk about how the pandemic is forcing reckonings in five realms -- including succession Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis

The New Family Business Powerhouses: Wives and Moms

Yet in many successful family businesses, the roles of women remain hindered by longstanding conventions Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Amy Hart Clyne