Despite broad anecdotal evidence, little is known about the antecedents and outcomes of stakeholder trust when dealing with a family business. The topic has received little systematic attention, which is surprising given its importance as a potential competitive advantage for family businesses and the influence of family businesses in many markets around the world. In his dissertation, Hannes Hauswald tries to address this gap. In the course of three essays, he explores what drives stakeholder trust when dealing with family businesses. Furthermore, he sheds light on the outcomes of...
Despite broad anecdotal evidence, little is known about the antecedents and outcomes of stakeholder trust when dealing with a family business. ...
Family offices manage and coordinate a family's combined wealth whilst preserving the family legacy and protecting family interests. The families behind these family offices control a significant percentage of the GDP of developed economies, with consequences for financial markets. At the same time, family offices act at the intersection of family and commerce, which makes this particular form of organization appealing to the field of strategic management. Despite its practical and academic relevance, the literature has hardly explored the concept of family offices. As a result, the...
Family offices manage and coordinate a family's combined wealth whilst preserving the family legacy and protecting family interests. The famili...
Annika Geyer aims to advance the current understanding of variations in family businesses' growth performance and to explain their potential origins. She focuses on the respective impact of the set of relevant background factors (stemming from top executives' individual characteristics as well as the given organizational and social environment) on the firms growth performance and the underlying processes through which this impact is transmitted. The insights of this work constitute an essential step towards settling the debate on how the family actually contributes to the family firm's...
Annika Geyer aims to advance the current understanding of variations in family businesses' growth performance and to explain their potential origin...
Helge Doring untersucht wie Familienunternehmen unterschiedlicher Groen durch die Ausgestaltung von IT-basierten und nicht IT-basierten Werkzeugen ihr bestehendes Wissen unter allen Mitarbeitern verteilen, neues Wissen aus der Umwelt aufnehmen und Wissensabflusse z.B. durch Pensionierungen kompensieren konnen. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass die grote praktische Herausforderung fur Familienunternehmen darin besteht, die bestehende Wissensbasis zu schutzen und das in den Mitarbeitern individuell vorhandene erfolgsrelevante Wissen in ein organisationales Wissen umzuwandeln.
Helge Doring untersucht wie Familienunternehmen unterschiedlicher Groen durch die Ausgestaltung von IT-basierten und nicht IT-basierten Werkzeugen ...
Jorg Schafer investigates the influence of family firm specific decision rationales based on socioemotional wealth on vertical and horizontal pay ranges in family firms. Building on a primary data set of over 200 family firms in Germany and applying multiple regression analysis techniques, as well as, the firm conceptual foundation in family firm and compensation theory, the presented study provides answers regarding antecedents of pay variation, and the factors that drive different family firms to pursue and implement specific pay structures and pay variations. Furthermore, the...
Jorg Schafer investigates the influence of family firm specific decision rationales based on socioemotional wealth on vertical and horizontal pay r...
Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and the impact of turnaround on the family role in family firms. Based on a specifically developed integrated conceptual turnaround model, the author collected a sample of 209 turnaround cases of German medium-sized companies from restructuring experts working for German banks. Employing a variety of carefully selected statistical analyses he identifies key factors for turnaround success and finds specific archetypes of crises and turnaround. The...
Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and th...
Christoph Rose provides a broader differentiation of the perspective on family-owned companies. In contrast to several studies that merely discuss family-owned companies and non-family companies, his analysis is based on family influence, so the dominating heterogeneity of family-owned companies in practice is taken into account.
Christoph Rose provides a broader differentiation of the perspective on family-owned companies. In contrast to several studies that merely discuss fam...
She examines the efficacy of brand elements that signal family influence and that help external stakeholders to identify a family firm. Firstly, the importance of a family firm tagline as well as the family name as brand elements are able to signal "family firm" and this helps potential employees to immediately categorize the potential employer.
She examines the efficacy of brand elements that signal family influence and that help external stakeholders to identify a family firm. Firstly, the i...
