Research

In 2020, two research areas are open for grant application.
1. 2086 Society Request for Proposals on “The Future of Work and Its Implications for Practice with Multi-generational Family Enterprises”
Claudia Binz Astrachan
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art
Fabian Bernhard
EDHEC Business School
Anneleen Michels
Hasselt University
Torsten Pieper
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Matthias Waldkirch
EBS University
Patricia Annino
Rimon PC
John Davis
Cambridge Family Enterprise Group
Nancy Drozdow
CFAR
Judy Green
Family Firm Institute
Fredda Herz Brown
Relative Solutions, LLC
Paul Karofsky
Transition Consulting Group
Maya Prabhu
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Reframing the Dialogue
This FFI/Goodman study questions the wisdom of considering longevity a function of maintaining the family business across generations vs. a new definition of longevity as the ability of the family as an enterprise to stay viable across generations, creating family legacies and new competitive futures for multiple.
This research has since resulted in an article, “From Longevity of Firms to Transgenerational Entrepreneurship of Families: Introducing Family Entrepreneurial Orientation”.