Getting It “Just Right”: The Goldilocks Zone of Family Board Involvement in Family Firms

WEEKLY EDITION • May 14, 2025

Thank you to Peter Jaskiewicz, James G. Combs, Klaus Uhlenbruck, Amlan Datta, and Katrina Barclay for this week’s FFI Practioner issue, a commentary on their research about the effect of family board involvement on family firms. In this article, the authors discuss what their findings suggest about the connection between a family firm’s performance and the number of family members on the board.