Family matters: A different perspective on change
Family businesses get a bad rap. Their reputation is based on family feuds, eccentric and self-interested leadership, and powerful boards where members blood matters more than brains. Recent research by Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller* suggests, however, that successful family businesses - including icons such as Ikea and Wal-Mart - represent an important set […]



Tom Lawrence, our editor, is the Weyerhaeuser Professor of Change Management at SFU.