Thought Leadership Articles
Babson's unique, research-driven approach focuses on the family dynamics that foster entrepreneurship, building the capacity of individuals to act entrepreneurially in a family context, and leveraging the practices that successfully develop entrepreneurial opportunities. Our faculty are experts and thought leaders in this area of studies.
At the Bertarelli Institute for Family Entrepreneurship, we are thrilled to be collaborating with a wide range of faculty, including faculty doing research in the family entrepreneurship space, practitioner faculty, and research faculty with deep expertise in topics highly relevant to entrepreneurial families.
Please click on the link below to download our latest report showcasing some of these research projects by Babson faculty:
BIFE Faculty Research Report Fall 2022
- How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens by Maura McAdam, Eric Clinton, William B. Gartner & Eleanor Hamilton (Taylor & Francis Online, 2024)
- Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda by Radu-Lebebvre, Miruna, Davis, James A., and William B. Gartner (Family Business Review, 2024)
- Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage: A Rhetorical History Perspective by Maura McAdam, Eric Clinton, Eleanor Hamilton, and William B. Gartner (Family Business Review, 2023)
- A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda (International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2023)
- Talking About My Generation (Family Business Review, 2023)
- Family Entrepreneurship: Insights from Leading Experts on Successful Multi-Generational Entrepreneurial Families by William B Gartner and Matthew Allen (Eds., Palgrave Macmillan, April 2021)
- Entrepreneurship Across the World is Family Entrepreneurship by William B Gartner and Matthew Allen (Tharawat Magazine, November 2020)
- The Uncertainty of Uncertainty (May 2020)
- Legacy and Achievement in Family Entrepreneurship (January 2020)
- Entrepreneurial Legacy: How Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future Affect Entrepreneurship in Business Families (October 2019)
- Do You Own or Manage Your Business With Family Members? Here Are 3 Essential Tips to Create Value Together (March, 2024)
- Your Family's Past Affects Your Business Today (February 2024)
- Leading Innovation in a Family Business (September 2021)
- 5 Things the Next Gen Should Do When Joining a Family Business (November 2020)
- Why Family Entrepreneurship is the New Family Business (November 2020)
- Entrepreneurial Families: The greatest force for growth and positive change in the world (August 2020)
- Family Entrepreneurship is about the FAMILY, not just their business (August 2020)
- How Entrepreneurial Families Can Lead – Now and in the Post Crisis World (Spring 2020)
- Eduardo's Family Business Journey (Winter 2020)
- What is Family Entrepreneurship? (Fall 2019)