Chair of Family Business –

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.