Family offices are organisations dedicated to the management of entrepreneurial families’ private wealth. Based on agency theory, we analyse types of family offices with regard to the families’ goals and the control mechanisms used to ensure goal achievement. Family-dominant management and...

Typology of family offices -- Financial and non-financials goals of families -- Formal and informal control mechanisms -- Interdependencies between family business and family office -- Antecedents of conflict in family offices -- Consequences of conflict in family offices