Family Firms and Family Constitution

Holger Fleischer is a Professor of Law and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. His main fields of research are company law, capital markets law and commercial law, including their comparative dimensions.Stefan Prigge is a Professor of Finance and Accounting at HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany, and a member of the IMF Institute for Mittelstand and Family Firms in Hamburg. His major fields of interest are governance and finance that he has applied to family firms (since 2011) and professional sport (since 2014).

• Part 1. Legal and Managerial Foundations Chapter 1. Family Companies and Family Constitutions: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Holger Fleischer Chapter 2. Family Firms and Family Constitution – A Management Perspective; Stefan Prigge and Katharina J. Mengers Chapter 3. Discussion Report Part 1: Legal and Managerial Foundations; Felix Thiele Part 2. Managerial Research I: Conceptual and Qualitative Analyses Chapter 4. A Receiver Approach to Governance in Family Firms: The Role of Justice Perceptions; Isabel C. Botero and Tomasz A. Fediuk Chapter 5. Family Governance in Practice: Lessons Learned from a 100-Year-Old Entrepreneurial Family Firm; Ilse Matser, Rachel Heeringa, and Jan Willem van der Vloot van Vliet Chapter 6. Managing Dispersed Ownership within the Owner Family: The Role of Family Governance; Lena Jungell Chapter 7. Analysis of Critical Incidents for the Design of the Governance System; Hermut Kormann Chapter 8. Discussion Report Part 2: Managerial Research I: Conceptual and Qualitative Analyses; Julia Mara Rückert and Felix Thiele Part 3. Managerial Research II: Survey and Quantitative Analyses Chapter 9. An Examination of the Relationship between Governance Mechanisms and Performance: Evidence from the Australian Family Business Context ; Chris Graves, Donella Caspersz, and Jill Thomas Chapter 10. The Family Constitution as an Instrument of Corporate Governance in Family-Owned Companies; Patrick Ulrich and Sarah SpeidelChapter 11. Discussion Report Part 3: Managerial Research II: Survey and Quantitative Analyses; Felix Thiele Part 4. Legal Research Chapter 12. Facets of Family Constitutions: Conceptual Origins, Practical Approaches and Legal Implications; Sebastian Bong Chapter 13. Discussion Report Part 4: Legal Research I; Holger Fleischer Chapter 14. Succession in Family Businesses – Legal Frameworks; Susanne Kalss Chapter 15. Family Firms and Family Constitutions in France – A General Overview; Katrin Deckert Chapter 16. Discussion Report Part 4: Legal Research II; Holger Fleischer Chapter 17. Family Constitutions and the Complexity of Family Businesses from a Counsel´s Point of View; Lorenz Holler Chapter 18. Discussion Report Part 4: Legal Research III; Holger Fleischer Part 5. Conclusion Chapter 19. Directions for Future Research; Holger Fleischer and Stefan Prigge