Links to selected research, features and learning materials
Family-owned companies generate better margins than non-family-owned companies
Source: Thomson Reuters, Credit Suisse Research
Family Ownership Channels to Innovation Family companies may have a conservative heritage, but new research suggests they can teach us a lot about innovation.
Author: Massimo Massa, The Rothschild Chaired Professor of Banking and Professor of Finance at INSEAD; September 25, 2014
The Next Generation - Family Business
Source: PwC Research
The transition from one generation to the next can make or break a family business; and as the ‘baby boomers’ hand over to the ‘millennials’, the risks of getting it wrong have never been greater. PwC interviewed over 200 next generation family business leaders in 21 countries worldwide. The survey looks specifically at the issue of succession: how family firms are planning for it, how the next generation views it, and the challenges all family firms face in implementing it.
The Family Business Map: Framework, Survey and Evidence from Chinese Family Firm Succession
Authors: Morten Bennedsen, Joseph P. H. Fan, Ming Jian, Yin Hua Yeh, Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise
Source: INSEAD; Faculty and Research Working Paper 2014/53/EPS/WICFE; forthcoming in Journal of Corporate Finance Special Issue on Family Firm Governance:
Transferring to the next generation; INSEAD Panel discussion
Participants: Christine Blondel, Morten Bennedsen, Randel Carlock, Xiaowei Rose Luo, Filipe Santos, Ludo Van der Heyden:
Source: INSEAD
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