Family Business Research
Family Business Research Programme has been conducting innovative research into family business since 2002.
Professor Nigel Nicholson and Åsa Björnberg have been working closely in association with the Institute for Family Business and other partners to shed light on under-explored aspects of family business, and familiar topics with new theoretical frameworks and ideas.
Our work draws variously on a range of disciplines:
- evolutionary biology
- anthropology
- family psychology
- economics
- organisational behaviour.
What's at the core of family business theory?
Family firms have unique performance capabilities that come from their ability to build powerful and distinctive cultures, whose value proposition gives them an advantage with stakeholders and in the market place. But they also have unique challenges and risks that often derail them. Thus they need to overcome these challenges to realise their potential.
The key to doing so is leadership. By this we mean choices that the leading voices in the firm and the family make about strategy, management, governance, succession and ownership. In family firms the family system plays a major part in these decisions.
Past support for the Family Business Research Programme
- The Institute for Family Business
- William Grant & Sons and the Butane Group through the creation of the IFB Fellowship.
- LODH - Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
- Economic and Social Research Council (Reference:RES-000-22-0302)
- BDO Centre for Family Business.
We are looking for sponsorship
If you are interested in supporting this important and ground-breaking research, please contact us to discuss sponsorship opportunities.
Our research is carried out in association with Åsa Björnberg