English summary: The empirical study addresses long-lived family businesses with hybrid management and executive structures which include both family members and non-family executives. It intends to provide insight into the way active family business owners structure relationships to non-family executives in this form of family business. The investigation will also evaluate the concept of control that they have in relation to non-family executives. Therefore seventy-one active family business owners were interviewed. A significant finding is that this relationship is primarily based on trust...

Beiräte in Familienunternehmen stehen in wirtschaftlichen Krisen vor großen Herausforderungen

Sinnvoller und nachhaltiger Umgang mit Konflikten in Familienunternehmen

Marius Renner examines privately placed debt in the context of the financing of family firms. Core of the thesis is a qualitative empirical study based on the generation of seven case studies, which analyses how the financing of family firms with privately placed debt displays. Focus is on the financing backgrounds, the motivation, prerequisites, challenges, influences by the shareholding families and the consequences. These findings lead to the gathering of conclusions about the financing characteristics of family firms. It shows that - due to its characteristics - privately placed debt...

Dieser Band umfasst zentrale Forschungsergebnisse der am WIFU engagierten Forscher aus den letzten sechs Jahren. Er beinhaltet sowohl theoretisch-konzeptionelle als auch praktisch anwendungsorientierte Konzepte. In drei Teilen werden grundlegende Ansatze und Modelle beschrieben, Fragestellungen zur Steuerung, Fuhrung und Governance von Familienunternehmen behandelt und schliesslich Ansatze zur Beratung und Begleitung von Familienunternehmen und Unternehmerfamilien in herausfordernden Situationen skizziert. Der Band dient als Anregung fur Forscher, die sich wissenschaftlich mit...