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How Family Businesses Can Get Employees to Go the Extra Mile

Employees are more likely to take initiative when family firms blend supportive collaboration with clear monitoring and performance feedback. Family firms typically emphasize one of two management Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Franz Kellermanns and Roland Kidwell

How to Assess the Strengths and Weaknesses of a Family Business

A five-part framework can help family firms evaluate control, governance, complexity, priorities and succession to anticipate challenges and opportunities. It's been said that, “Once you have seen Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations

New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. A recent study that I conducted with Tom Vanacker of Ghent University explored how a new firm's affiliations with venture capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Gamification Can Strengthen a Family Business

Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th century, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

#MeToo is Changing the Game for Startups

The #MeToo era has created new challenges for entrepreneurs and startups. Cautionary tales abound of startups whose hard-partying culture resulted in sexual harassment, hostile work environments and Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

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