Education Tilburg Institute for Familiy Business
The Tilburg Institute for Family Business offers the course Family Businesses and Succession.
It is a multidisciplinary program that is offered in the following master programs Company Law, Tax Economics, Tax Law. The course focuses on several aspects of succession in family firms like the design of succession, ownership and control, property issues, governance of the firm, and the valuation and financing.
Professional Learning
'Bedrijfsopvolging bij familiebedrijven'
The executive program Bedrijfsopvolging bij familiebedrijven is suited for consultants and entrepreneurs and their successors. This multidisciplinary program focuses on several aspects of succession in family firms like tax and legal issues, governance and financing, but also on the psychological aspects of succession. The program offers the latest scientific insight on succession in combination with practical cases focused on succession. Only in Dutch
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'Commissaris in het Familiebedrijf'
The executive program Commissaris in het Familiebedrijf is a multidisciplinary program and focuses on the complicated dilemmas commissioners in family businesses are facing. The program strengthens their knowledge and competences so they can take on this challenge in an inspiring, engaging and connecting way. Only in Dutch
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Theses
TIFB promotes that students can write their bachelor and/or master thesis about several aspects of the family business. Students in the master programs as Tax Law, Company Law, Finance and Strategic Management write their master thesis about various aspects of family business.
BSc thesis Management
2017
- K. Aarns: The influence of family involvement on Research & Development Investments.
- N. Castelijns: The influence of family firm status and family involvement on Research and Development expenses within a firm.
- L. Hanegraaf: The moderating effect of environmental dynamism on the relationship between family firm status and firm performance.
- V. Nuijts: What is the relation between family involvement and CSR and how does power distance influence this relation.
- A. Perbal: The effect of family involvement on firm performance. Does firm size matter?
MSc thesis Finance
2017
- V. Hoek: Family Business Conservatism.
- J. van Kemenade: Family business growth: The Impact of the family business system.
MSc thesis Human Resource Studies
2020
- F. Sun: The effectiveness of supervisory boards in family businesses: How family emotions and supervisory boards’ engagement affect supervisory board performance.
- M. Kuijken: Supervisory board’s team effectiveness in family firms: The role of information and faultlines.
2019
- E. van Oers: The moderating effects of change in revenue and change in fte's on the relationship between fairness and organizational identification.
- E. Reijntjes: Organization size, pay level dissatisfaction and commitment: The moderating role of LMX.
- E. Vossen: The mediating effects of individual proactive behaviour on the relationship between organizational justice and workplace performance.
- M. Zoetbrood: Effective teamwork of supervisory boards in family businesses: The role of structural empowerment and family control and emotions.
2018
- L. Huberts: The counteracting effects of organizational identification and organizational justice on turnover intentions: Two counteracting effects compared within family- and non-family firms.
- J. Xiang: Commitment of family firm employees: Mediating effect of justice perception and moderating effect of high performance work practices.
MSc thesis International Management
2021
- M. van de Camp: How do family firms strategically respond to the Corona crisis.
- M. Rietveld: Seeking the opportunity: Exploring the conditions under which Dutch family firms perceive an opportunity in the Corona crisis.
- J. Stoelwinder: Entepreneurial orientation within family firms during the Corona crisis.
2020
- J. Stolk: The effect of family involvement and internationalization in Dutch family firms.
2019
- L. Berm: To what extent has family firm status an effect on intention to leave, and to what extent is this relationship mediated by career growth opportunities?
- F. Grafen: Can families use their influence on the business to raise commitment among their employees by ensuring organizational justice?
- F. Jansen: The effect of employees’ organizational identification and family identification on affective commitment under the impact of tenure
- M. Parma: Does family influence pay off? The effects of family influence in entrepreneurial orientation of a firm and its effects on affective commitment of employees.
2017
MSc thesis Strategic Management
2021
- E. Boom: The influence of boundary management in family business during the Covid-19 crisis.
- E. van der Heijden: Creating work-family enrichment that helps family firm owners in the Covid-19 crisis.
- R. van Ringelenstein: Innovation within family firms during the Corona crisis
- K. Schippers: A study on the emotions of family firm directors and their crisis decision-making during crisis management
2020
- J. Morssinkhof: Family involvement in the TMT: The effect on financial performance in Dutch family firms.
- K. van Rooij: The impact of the composition of top management teams on financial performance in Dutch family firms: A semi-replication study.
- J. de Andrade Antonio: Familiness and CEO Age as predictors of Family Firms’ Performance: A study focused on Dutch Family Firms.
- M. van Dijck: The influence of the family aspect in family firms: How it affects firm performance.
- I. van Haaster: The influence of Top Managment Team characteristics on the R&D intensity of family firms.
- M. Vesters: Innovation performance of Dutch family firms.
2019
- A. van Lierop: Identification in family firms: A study regarding the moderating effect of tenure on the relationship between organizational/family identification and the intention to leave among employees.
- S. Vermeulen: Does family involvement involve elevated employee commitment?
- V. Wenting: Turnover intentions of non-family employees in family firms and employees in non-family firms: the mediating role of distributive and procedural justice.
- D. Wolfs: Do family firm employees have a lower intention to leave? A study on the mediating role of high performance work practices in the relationship between family firm status and intention to leave.
2018
- N. Engelberts: The mediating role of organizational identification on the relationship
- between family firms status and affective commitment.
- D. Filippo: Innovation through tradition: Family versus non-family firms.
- G. Heusschen: Identification in the family firm: The moderating effect of the type of employment contract on the relationship between identification on organizational citizenship behavior.
- K. Jongen: Family firm failure. A descriptive research into explaining family firm cessation
- R. van Kruijsdijk: Affective commitment within small to mid-sized family and non- family firms. The influence of career opportunities.
- S. Vaassens: in employee development.
- L. Verstraaten: A comparative study of employee initiative within family firms and nonfamily firms: The influence of entrepreneurial orientation.
- P. van de Voorde: To survive or not survice A best practice analysis about agricultural family firm succession.
2017
- V. Broeckaert: The influence of female directors on the family firm status and the corporate social responsibility relationship.
- R. Franssen: The influence of family firms on the relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance.
- M. Vester: Capital structures in family and non-family firms.
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