Sufficient capital is the basic requirement necessary to operate the business, to fund innovation, to drive growth and to successfully hand over the business to next generations. Thomas Pijanowski investigates the impact of family firms on bank loan officers’ judgment and decision making in...

Pascal Engel investigates how outside directors are incentivized in family firms that are publicly listed but still partly owned by members of the founding family. Owning families significantly influence their firms' corporate conduct with their own set of goals, sometimes in conflict with...

Helge Döring untersucht wie Familienunternehmen unterschiedlicher Größen durch die Ausgestaltung von IT-basierten und nicht IT-basierten Werkzeugen ihr bestehendes Wissen unter allen Mitarbeitern verteilen, neues Wissen aus der Umwelt aufnehmen und Wissensabflüsse z.B. durch Pensionierungen...

Introduction -- Literature, Underlying Concepts and Research Gaps -- Methodology and Research Questions -- History of the German Industrial Landscape between 1958 and 2018 -- Quantitative Analysis: The 250 Largest Enterprises of 1958 and 2018 -- Long-term Analysis I: The 250 Largest Enterprises...

Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and the impact of turnaround on the family role in family firms. Based on a specifically developed integrated conceptual turnaround model, the author...