Practical Guides | WIFU – Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen

Family Strategy Development in Business Families

This practical guide by Tom Rüsen, Arist von Schlippe and Torsten Groth assists members of business families to develop and critically reflect on their family strategy in a structured manner....

Securing Succession in a Family Business across Generations

This practical guide offers food for thought and encourages those involved to individually and jointly address the question of succession, mutually clarify expectations, understand the challenges and, on this basis,...

The Dynamics in Growing Business Families

The knowledge of the elementary principles of social life, the understanding of these rules enables us to develop a system competence which is helpful in shaping life in the complex...

Professional Ownership in Business Families

This practical guide summarises the findings of WIFUs research on professional ownership and advisory support to business families: The change in family businesses - a move away from owner-managed to...

Digitalisation strategies in family businesses

This practical guide examines the special attributes of family businesses and, taking these special attributes into account, suggests specific digitalisation strategies.

Mental Models of Family Businesses

In this practical guide four mental models are presented, together with their specific issues and family strategy tasks. This guide is based on studies that are described in detail in...

The Ten Witten Theses

The practical guide "The Ten Witten Theses" describes the particularities of family businesses.

Succession in family businesses (Chinese)

Chinese Version of the practical guide "Succession in family businesses"