Summary More than in the past, contemporary society presents a challenge to juggle multiple roles, identities and functions especially in the domains of work and family. In this post, we summarize the results of our research, published in the Journal of Management...
Summary Our article, published in the Journal of Management Studies, takes stock of what we know about organizational goals and success. We focus on their determinants and outcomes as captured in Figure 1, and propose future areas of fruitful future research. Our...
Are Family Firms Better Employers? A question that has attracted considerable attention is whether family firms are better employers than non-family firms. This issue is critical because over 90% of firms world-wide are family owned and over 60% of employees globally...
Academic research shows that family firms – the most prevalent type of business organization around the world – make decisions about acquisitions differently. Some aspects of such distinct acquisition behavior have been identified clearly. For instance, family firms...
David King, Olimpia Meglio, Luis Gomez-Mejia, Florian Bauer and Alfredo De Massis Family firms and restructuring There is an intuitive appeal that family firms display peculiarities in general and that this also affects their restructuring behavior. Family firms are...