
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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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.

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.

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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