
Ready, set, go! A roadmap for sustainable business transformation
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by Ivan Miroshnychenko, Alfredo De Massis Published 25 February 2022 in Brain circuits • 1 min read
Have you ever heard a manager refer to their team as “one big happy family”? It’s a cliché, for sure, and also doesn’t acknowledge the fact that many families (and many businesses for that matter) display some level of dysfunction. But take that family analogy for a minute and consider your company for the purpose of this exercise:
Imagine that your main stakeholders were your family and the people you cared about most and ask yourself these questions:
Now consider why you may do things differently, and whether you should make changes in your business based on that.
This exercise is worth your time, based on our findings relating to business longevity. Our research has found that family firms on average have a higher growth rate than non-family firms. Family influence is a strong determinant on business growth so maybe it is worth examining if you in fact should be thinking of your company as family.
Further reading:
Family Business Growth Around the World by Ivan Miroshnychenko, Alfredo De Massis, Danny Miller, and Roberto Barontini
Research Fellow and Term Research Professor at IMD Business School
Ivan Miroshnychenko is Research Fellow and Term Research Professor at IMD Business School, and Affiliate Research Fellow at Sant’Αnna School of Advanced Studies (Italy). He carries out research on economics and management of family business and sustainability that has been published in top academic journals.
Alfredo De Massis is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business, ranked as the most influential and productive author in the family business research field in the last decade in a recent bibliometric study published in the European Journal of Family Business, and he provides intellectual contributions to IMD by working on collaboration and scientific advisory activities as the Wild Chair in Family Business.
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