Family Firms and Entrepreneurship: A different point of view
Continuing our series on Myths and Realities, HEC Montréal professor Danny Miller weighs in on “Family Firms and Entrepreneurship: A different point of view”.
Myths and Realities: Polar opposites?
The Brain: Conventional wisdom — especially from parents of teenagers — suggests that the teenage brain and the adult brain may be polar opposites.
Addiction and Family Business
Addiction contributes to poor communication, lack of trust, and even dysfunction in family enterprises.
Developing Positivity in Family Business Leaders
Working with the cooperation of the Family Business Australia FORUM, the authors studied a leadership intervention in a group context (a.k.a. peer advisory groups) over a five-year period.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for the Practitioner
The first in the quarterly series of practice-oriented précis of articles from the Family Business Review.
Career Advancement in a Family-Owned French Construction Firm Under Changing Labor Legislations and Market Demand, 1946-1985
External factors influenced this firm’s labor costs and overall performance. First, in 1950, the French government established the guaranteed interprofessional wage.
Communication Traps: Applying game theory to succession in family firms
In order to model this discussion using game theory, the authors assume that the founder has more power in the discussion than the successor, tied to a tendency not to share information about when succession planning should commence.
Seeing the Light: Using visual ethnography in family business settings
Research Applied summary prepared by Nava Michael-Tsbari, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology Offering a new perspective for research, this paper seeks to examine the possible usage of visual ethnography in family business research.
Relational Competence-Based Knowledge Transfer Within Succession: An experimental study
Intrafamily succession, which can be within a nuclear family or across branches and generations, is often a goal in the overall strategy for family firm continuity.