About the Podcast
This podcast focuses on the operations and logistics behind family businesses. Through interviews with professors specializing in family business research and textile family firm owners in Zhejiang, we see how businesses run by families compare and differ from non-family-managed enterprises. Each interview also focuses on gender norms, generational succession, and resource constrained companies.Â
Latest Episodes
Interview with Professor Alfredo de Massis
Professor Alfredo De Massis, a prominent family business researcher at Lancaster University, studies innovation, succession, and strategic behavior within family enterprises. He has written several books, including The Family Business Book, which helps family-owned companies thrive across generations.
Interview with Professor Wang Yong
Professor Wang Yong is a Professor of Family Business & Entrepreneurship at the University of Wolverhampton. His research covers family firm succession, socio-emotional wealth, digitalisation, and internationalisation. An IFERA Fellow, he maintains UK–China research collaborations and visiting academic roles.
Interview with Professor Salvatore Tomaselli
Italian associate professor Salvatore Tomaselli works at the University of Palermo and collaborates with Wolverhampton’s family business research group. An early IFERA member with an IESE PhD, he studies family business governance, succession and internal conflict