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Between working with client families, teaching, researching, and speaking, there’s always something going on at Generation6.

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  • Michiels, A., Botero, I., & Kidwell, R. (2022). Toward a Family Science Perspective on Executive Compensation in Family Firms: A Review and Research Agenda. Family Business Review 35(1), 45-67.

    Welsh, D. H., Botero, I. C., Kaciak, E., & Kopaničová, J. (2021). Family emotional support in the transformation of women entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Research, 137, 444-451.

    Pieper, T. M., Kellermanns, F. W., & Astrachan, J. H. (2021). Update 2021: Family Businesses’ Contribution to the US Economy. Family Enterprise USA (704).

    Botero, I. C., Martínez, A. B., Sanguino, G., & Binhote, J. (2021). The family’s effect on knowledge sharing in family firms. Journal of Knowledge Management.

    Astrachan, J. H., & Pieper, T. M. (2021). Developing responsible owners in family business. In Topics of Family Business Governance (pp. 119-126). Springer, Cham.

    Botero, I., Arzaga, F. S., & Bullock, B. (2021). Understanding Governance Mechanisms in Small and Medium Family Firms in Latin America. Multidisciplinary Business Review, 14(2), 107-120.

    Binz Astrachan, C., Astrachan, J. H., Kotlar, J., & Michiels, A. (2021). Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12(1), 100395.

    Binhote, J., Botero, I. C., Wittmeyer, C., & Astrachan, J. H. (2021). Developing Committed Next Generation Members in Family Firms: The Role of Socialization Processes. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2021, No. 1, p. 15099). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

    Botero, I. C., & Litchfield-Moore, S. R. (2021). Customer perceptions about family firms and their effects on customer behaviors. Journal of Small Business Strategy, 31(2), 19-35.

    Hair, J. F., Binz Astrachan, C., Moisescu, O. I., Radomir, L., Sarstedt, M., Vaithilingam, S., & Ringle, C. M. (2020). Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 100392.

    Pieper, T. M., Williams Jr, R. I., Manley, S. C., & Matthews, L. M. (2020). What time may tell: An exploratory study of the relationship between religiosity, temporal orientation, and goals in family business. Journal of business ethics, 163(4), 759-773.

    Astrachan, J. H., Binz Astrachan, C., Campopiano, G., & Baù, M. (2020). Values, spirituality and religion: Family business and the roots of sustainable ethical behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 163(4), 637-645.

    Elsbach, K. D., & Pieper, T. M. (2019). How psychological needs motivate family firm identifications and identifiers: A framework and future research agenda. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 10(3), 100289.

    Williams, R. I., Pieper, T. M., Kellermanns, F. W., & Astrachan, J. H. (2019). Applying an organizational effectiveness approach to measure family business performance. Journal of Family Business Management, 9(3), 349-374.

    Williams, R. I., Pieper, T. M., Kellermanns, F. W., & Astrachan, J. H. (2019). Family business goal formation: A literature review and discussion of alternative algorithms. Management Review Quarterly, 69(3), 329-349.

  • Michiels, A. & Binz Astrachan, C. (2023). IT’S (NOT AT) ALL ABOUT THE MONEY: The Many Misunderstood and Underexplored Manifestations of Money in the Business Family | Read more

    Astrachan, J., Botero, I., Wittmeyer, C., & Astrachan, C. (2022). Don't Send Your Kids to Work Outside the Family Business Just Yet! | Read more

    Binz Astrachan, C., Astrachan, J.H., & Kormann, H. (2021). Four things that the best family business boards do well | Read more

    Binz Astrachan, C., Astrachan, J.H., & Kormann, H. (2021). The best family business boards embrace candor and ‘necessary endings’ | Read more Binz Astrachan, C. & Botero, I. (2021). Business Family Governance 2.0: Leveraging Business Family Governance for Family Continuity. A Research Report from the IFB Research Foundation | Read more

    Binz Astrachan, C., Waldkirch, M., Michiels, A., Pieper, T. M., & Bernhard, F. (2020). Professionalizing the business family: The five pillars of competent, committed, and sustainable ownership. a research report sponsored by the FFI 2086 society | Read moreAstrachan, C. (2022). Developing Competent Owners and Stewards for a Lasting Family Business | Read more

    Pieper, T. M. (2021). Can my siblings/cousins and I assess in the family whether we could constructively work together in the business one day? In Peter Jaskiewicz and Sabine B. Rau (Eds.): Enabling next generation legacies: 35 questions that next generation members in enterprising families ask. Pathway Books, pp. 60-63.

    Williams, R. I., Pieper, T. M., & Astrachan, J. H. (2019). Private family business goals: A concise review, goal relationships, and goal formation processes. In Esra Memili and Clay Dibrell (Eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 377-405.

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  • 4/4 - 4/5/2024 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program | Read more

    4/25/24 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | In-Person | Forum für Familienunternehmen | Read more

    5/18/24 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | ICESI | High-Performance Board Program | Read more

  • 12/7/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | In-Person | Institute for Family Governance Annual Miami Conference

    11/13/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | Session for EU SME Assembly: How to Scale Up: From SME to Mid Cap

    9/28 - 9/29/2023 | Veronica Maldonado | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program

    7/20 - 7/21/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program

    6/22/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | NGFB Symposium

    6/8/2023 | Joe Astrachan & Torsten Pieper | Virtual | IFERA Summer School

    6/8 - 6/9/2023 | Jesús Casado & Santiago Perry | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program

    5/25 - 5/26/2023 | Andrew Keyt | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program

    5/6/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | European Challenges for Family Businesses

    5/5/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | FBN Sweden: Wealth Inequality

    5/3/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | Webinar for Family Business Norway – Business Family Governance 2.0

    3/2/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | Catalan Association of Family Business

    2/28/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | SME Intergroup and European Parliament Breakfast Date

    2/23/2023 | Andrew Keyt | Private event for Highview capital - Beyond financial success: Building the foundation for a connected and cohesive family across generations

    2/23 - 2/24/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program

    1/27/2022 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | WVIB Schwarzwald: Chefsache Familienzusammenhalt

    1/10/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | Virtual | Prairie Family Business Association Board Bootcamp

PUBLIC RELATIONS

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Press Release for the Launch of Generation6, Family Enterprise Advisors | October 21, 2021

Press Release for the Launch of Reshaping Reality: Unlocking the Potential of the Single Family Office | May 23, 2023

  • 2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan receives three 2022 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for her articles on ownership competence development and best practices in the hybrid workplace. Find all articles on familybusiness.org

    2023 | Claudia Astrachan, Raphaelle Mattart, and Fabrice Pirnay receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Constitutions as Expressions of Family Heterogeneity: Disentangling Motivations and Process.”

    2022 | Joe Astrachan receives a 2021 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for his article titled ‘Family businesses must plan for the unthinkable’. Find the article on familybusiness.org

    2022 | Claudia Astrachan and Isabel Botero receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Governing the Business Family, A Matter Of Fit”

    2021 | Isabel Botero and Joe Astrachan, together with Juliana Binhote and Carol Wittmeyer, receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Does Working Outside the Firm Make Next Generation Members More Successful Inside their Family Firm?”

    2021 | Claudia Binz Astrachan, Joe Astrachan, and Andrew Keyt together receive five 2020 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for their articles on best practices in the family business boardroom, family dynamics, and COVID resilience. Find all articles on familybusiness.org

    2020 | Isabel Botero, together with Neus Feliu, receives the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Citizenship Behaviors in Family Enterprises: Understanding its Nature and Dimensionality”

    2019 | Joe Astrachan receives the Lifetime Influence and Impact Award from the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), University of Vermont.

    2019 | Claudia Binz Astrachan receives a 2018 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for her article titled “Successful successions are never smooth”, which has generated over 41,000 hits since its publication

    2019 | Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joe Astrachan, together with Josip Kotlar and Anneleen Michiels, receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice from the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), University of Vermont | “Family Business Shareholder Liquidity Agreements: A Conceptual Exploration of Antecedents, Strategies, and Consequences”

    2019 | Isabel Botero receives the Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity, the highest research award given at Stetson University

    2019 | Isabel Botero receives the Outstanding Researcher Award from the School of Business Administration at Stetson University

    2018 | Andrew Keyt receives the Interdisciplinary Award from the Family Firm Institute

    2018 | Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joe Astrachan, together with Josip Kotlar, receive the award for Best Paper on Conference Theme at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Family Firm Disrupters: Exploring the Relationships between Family Cohesion, Family Disruptive Capacity, and Company Disruptive Capacity”

    2018 | Greg McCann receives the Interdisciplinary Award from the Family Firm Institute

    2018 | Isabel Botero, together with Fernando Sandoval, receives the Adalberto Viesca Sada Family Business in Latin America Award at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico

    2017 | Torsten Pieper and Joe Astrachan receive the Business Engagement Award from Kennesaw State University – Coles College of Business for the “EY-KSU Global Family Business Survey”

    2017 | Isabel Botero receives the FOBI (Family-Owned Business Institute) Research Scholar Award from Grand Valley State University

    2009 | Joe Astrachan receives the International Award from the Family Firm Institute

    2001 | Joe Astrachan receives the McGregor Award from the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (a publication of the NTL Institute) for one of the top eleven papers published between 1990 and 1999

    2000 | Joe Astrachan receives the Richard Beckhard Award from the Family Firm Institute

    1998 | Joe Astrachan receives an award for Lifetime Achievement in Research from the International Family Business Program Association (now USASBE)

  • 2020 | Isabel Botero and Claudia Binz Astrachan are selected by the Institute for Family Business UK Research Foundation to write a commissioned research report on business family governance | Read the report here

    2020 | Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan, together with Matthias Waldkirch, Anneleen Michiels, and Fabian Bernhard, are the first recipients of the Society 2086 research grant for a research report on business family professionalization | Read the report here

    2018 | Isabel Botero becomes a Fellow at the Family Firm Institute

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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT(S)

  • Research project sponsored by INNOSUISSE, the Swiss innovation agency, with the purpose of developing an online assessment tool for family business boards | Claudia Binz Astrachan, Lars Sonderegger & Sonja Kissling

  • Second Generation6 Innovation Series book on “Mental Health in the Family Business” - Coming in 2024!