Cátedra de Empresa Familiar
Impulsando el éxito en el relevo generacional de la familia empresaria

The research projects undertaken by the Chair include:

 

GOVERNANCE OF FAMILY BUSINESSES
Assessment of practices within the Family Business: evidence from an empirical study in Spain
The main aim of this study is to create an empirical basis for an understanding of when owners carry out evaluations of their family businesses, the circumstances in which they do it and the techniques they use.

 

Capital structure among owners of a Family Business
A study of the most significant aspects of decisions relating to optimum share capital structure between owners of family businesses.

 

INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILY BUSINESSES

Women and their specific role beyond the Family Business
This project focuses on the unity of the family as one of the keys to the continuity of a family business, centering around a study of a broad group of women who want to play a more active role in preserving the unity of the family over the course of time.

 

Commitment to the Family Business
The Chair provides support for this doctoral program research project on commitment to the Family Business by distributing a series of questionnaires with the Chair’s own newsletter.

 

SUCCESSION
From the founder to a multigenerational family business
A multinational research project aimed at identifying the factors that are critical when creating relationships between a multigenerational family business and a business family.

 

The commitment of future generations to and with the Family Business
A project that analyses how the members of the next generation develop and evolve in their commitment to and with the Family Business.

 

ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FAMILY BUSINESSES.
How do academics view the way in which Family Businesses manage their different social responsibilities?
Focusing on corporate social responsibility in Family Businesses, this project also examines the special attention paid by these family enterprises to the creation and increase of resources.

 

Corporate social responsibility in family businesses in Guipúzcoa
This study is aimed at designing a model for social corporate responsibility that is suited to a family business in Guipúzcoa.