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Chair of Family Business –

Thought leader on family firm research.

About us

Family firms - no matter whether big or small - are all around. At the same time, those firms are substantially different from other types of firms, for instance with regard to their goals, strategies, and resources. For this reason, the Chair of Family Business is dedicated to research the behavior of German and international family firms. Our most current research projects, for instance, aim to advance our understanding of innovation, leadership and employee satisfaction, succession, inertia, business ethics and financing of family firms as well as family offices. We thereby focus on

  • innovation
  • entrepreneurship
  • strategy
  • governance
  • succession
  • Family Offices
  • financing of family firms

The Chair of Family Businesses of WHU sees itself as a pioneer in the field of research into family business. This is achieved by focusing on issues that are relevant to both science and practice, providing intensive supervision of doctoral students and interested students, and fostering collaborations that result in top-level scientific publications. 

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  • the Chair of Family Business
  • the Chair of Small and Medium Sized Businesses
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  • the WHU Campus for Family Business

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Teaching

Professor Kammerlander teaches in bachelor, master, and Ph.D. courses and helds seminars in the field of family business and social entrepreneurship. She regularly supervises theses analyzing family business related topics. 

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Research

The Chair for Family Businesses dedicates itself to the research of specific challenges of family businesses and the communication of these research results, including the mediation of solutions in business practice.

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Corporate Connections

The goal of the WHU Campus for Family Business is to transfer and discuss new findings from science and practice with keynotes and interactive workshops.

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Team

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Professor Dr. Nadine Kammerlander

Chairholder

+49 (0)261 6509 780
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Katrin Schwarz

Managing Director

+49 (0)211 44709 786
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Michèle Kwiotek

Personal Assistant

+49 (0)261 6509 781
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Julia de Groote

Assistant Professor

+49 (0)261 6509 784

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Professor Franz W. Kellermanns, Ph.D.

Affiliated Professor

+49 (0)261 6509 781
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Professor Dr. Peter May

Honorary Professor

+49 (0)228 3678 011
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Christopher Khoury

Research Associate / Doctoral student

+49 (0)261 6509 810
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Sonia Mair

Research Associate / Doctoral student

+49 (0)261 6509 782
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Laura Kim Van Bömmel

Research Associate / Doctoral student

+49 (0)261 6509 785
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Rolf Wilmes

Research Associate / Doctoral student

+49 (0)261 6509 783
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Leon Erne

Research Associate / Doctoral student

+49 (0)261 6509 787
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Yasin Yilmaz

Research Associate / Doctoral student

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  • Dr. Jan Eiben
    Director of Institute
  • Professor Dr. Andreas Hack
    Chaired Professor
  • Professor Dr. Sabine Rau
    Chaired Professor
  • Professor Fabian Bernhard
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Pedram Faghfouri
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Nils Kraiczy
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Veronika Preuß
    Doctoral student
  • ​​​​​​Dr. Viktoria Siebke
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Thomas Rieg
    Doctoral student
  • Jutta Walendy
    Personal assistant
  • Dr. René Sadowski
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Andreas Röhm
    Doctoral student
  • Dr. Maximilian Theissen
  • Dr. Maximilian Wachter
    Doctoral student
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