This professional guide presents an extensive overview of the German family enterprise landscape, with a special focus on its structure and diversity. Drawing on several scientific studies conducted by the authors, its goal is to provide a detailed assessment of the development of German family...

Maximilian Lantelme examines the historical growth and decline developments of large German family and non-family businesses between 1971 and 2011. Based on a sample of the 143 largest German companies in 1971 and in 2011, the author investigates the long-term development of each company and...

Christoph Rose provides a broader differentiation of the perspective on family-owned companies. In contrast to several studies that merely discuss family-owned companies and non-family companies, his analysis is based on family influence, so the dominating heterogeneity of family-owned companies...

Sandra Wolf develops a better understanding of the importance of clearly communicating family influence. She examines the efficacy of brand elements that signal family influence and that help external stakeholders to identify a family firm. An experiment with 543 students in Germany and...

Oliver Klöckner investigates the changes resulting from buy-outs in family businesses. He contrasts the characteristics of family businesses with those of non-family businesses after a buy-out. His theoretical discussion is complemented by an in-depth analysis of 17 bought-out family businesses...

Turnaround Management - State of the Art -- Crisis management in family businesses -- Empirical studies: Methods and sample -- How family members in the TMT and the existence of supervisory boards affect EWSs in family businesses -- Differences in the crisis readiness of family and non-family...