Global Family Business Think Tank, Autumn 2024

The Autumn 2024 Global Family Business Think Tank published by Family Business United summarises the thoughts of over 100 family business experts from around the world.  Comprising family business CEO's, leading academics from renowned institutions and practicing family business advisers and consultants the report looks at a number of key themes including:

• whether the concept of 'shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves' analogy is really relevant today

• the level to which nepotism exists in family firms today

• whether next generation family members benefit from getting external experience before joining the family firm

• the extent to which a degree of conflict in family firms is inevitable

• whether or not family firms educate their stakeholders sufficiently about the family history, its legacy, purpose and governance of the family sufficiently

• how important philanthropy and community engagement are to family businesses and to what extent they are part of the essence of being a family business today, and

• to what extent family firms feel that it is important to do business 'right.'

As well as the overall impact and views of the community in terms of statistics, represented in terms of the percentage of panel members agreeing with the statement or not, there is qualitative feedback from some of the panel members and a feature piece on various topics investigated in this edition of the report.

Order you copy of the report and get your insights from the global family business community on family business matters that will help shape family business discussions and strategies.