Studies & observatories

Family businesses and Covid: what trends for the world beyond?

To endure and remain competitive in these COVID times, how did family and non-family businesses withstand the turbulence? What are their new CSR challenges? What are the challenges for corporate governance across the generations? How do entrepreneurial culture and family culture coexist in times of crisis?

For this latest edition of the Observatoire national de l'entrepreneuriat familial, we have included employees as a new sample, in order to compare their perceptions with those of managers, and to understand the role of family employees in family and non-family businesses. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working in a family as an employee? What are their views on opening up company capital to employees?

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Entrepreneurial and family culture: a lever for transmission?

In 2019, the Chair launched the first edition of the Observatoire national de l'Eentrepreneuriat familial, in partnership with FBN France. Discover the results of the study conducted with the Opinion Way polling institute among 865 family and non-family business leaders.

Objective: to better understand the entrepreneurial levers of family businesses that know how to combine sustainability and competitiveness over several generations, from the bias of comparing family and non-family businesses.

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The morale of family businesses in Pays de la Loire

Unprecedented in the region, in 2016 the Chair launched the first observatory of family businesses in the Pays de la Loire region. Discover the results of the study carried out with the BVA Opinion polling institute among 171 family business leaders in the region.

Aim: to have a better knowledge and recognition of family businesses in the Pays de le Loire.

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Young people and family entrepreneurship

In 2015, Audencia's entrepreneurship major, headed by Vincent Lefebvre, produced a white paper on family entrepreneurship in two parts: creating a family business and being an employee in a family business.

Objective: to formulate proposals to remove the obstacles to creating or integrating family businesses.

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Identity and image of family businesses

The Family Entrepreneurship & Society chair has carried out various studies on the definition and image of family businesses, which it wished to disseminate to different audiences and stakeholders in family entrepreneurship.

Aim: to reveal the state of progress of the research work carried out by the chair on this subject.

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Study on the emotional ambivalence of future leaders

This research enabled us to explore the emotional processes at the root of paradoxical tensions in successors between:

• business preservation and change,
• individual autonomy and family interdependence,
• individual commitment and disengagement,
• the desire to pass on the business and the need to remain in control,
• interpersonal and family trust and mistrust.

Typology of family successors

As part of the Chair's work, Miruna Radu Lefebvre focused on the profile of family business successors. An exploratory study enabled her to construct a typology of family successors.

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