My Forty Years in Studying and Helping Family Businesses

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https://doi.org/10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i1.12768

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Family Business, Sucession, Family Capital, Family Will, Socio-emotional Wealth

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This article will describe the trends in the field of family business over the past forty years in terms of theory and practice. Topics such as succession, consulting with family businesses, the effectiveness of family firms, the role of socio-emotional wealth in family firms, heterogeneity in family businesses, and the impact of family capital on the business and the family will be discussed.

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2021-06-17

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Dyer, G. (2021). My Forty Years in Studying and Helping Family Businesses. European Journal of Family Business, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.24310/ejfbejfb.v11i1.12768

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