Research indicates that family firms often engender a sense of trustworthiness among stakeholders. However, little is known as to whether this trustworthiness is beneficial or detrimental to family firms in the face of an ethical scandal. Ethical transgressions can profoundly undermine...

Recently, toolkits for user innovation and design have been proposed as a promising means of opening up the innovation process to customers. Using these tools, customers can take on problem-solving tasks and design products to fit their individual needs. To date, arguments in favor of this new...

Der nächsten Unternehmergeneration fehlt es nicht an der familienunternehmerischen Grundhaltung, aber sie hat auch einige Sorgen. Die Studie der Stiftung Familienunternehmen "Deutschlands nächste Unternehmergeneration" wurde zum sechsten Mal erstellt vom Friedrichshafener Institut für...