Projects
The transfer of the family company to the next generation: a comparative study on the company law, family property law and tax law aspects KU Leuven
Considering the importance of the continuity of family businesses for the European economy, the aim of this project is to perform a comparativelegal study on the intergenerational transfer of unlisted companies with limited liability. The relevant rules of Belgian, Dutch, French and English company law, family property law and tax law will be critically analysed.
First, we examine how company law supports the transfer of family ...
The printer's widow: gender, family and editorial choices in early modern Antwerp, Louvain and Douai (long 16th - 17th centuries) KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man’s world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men’s work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...
The professionalization process in private family firms: Scale development, identifying the conditions of professionalization, and determining the effects it has on firm outcome Hasselt University
Strategic Change in Family Firms: Antecedents and consequences of strategic change from a change readiness perspective Hasselt University
Strategic change in family firms: antecedents and consequences of strategic change from a change readiness perspective. University of Antwerp
Precarious working lives, precarious family and social lives? A qualitative study investigating the interrelationship of life spheres Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Role of Auditing and Audit Quality in Mitigating Agency Problems in Private Family Firms Hasselt University
Role of Auditing and Audit Quality in Mitigating Agency Problems in Private Family Firms Hasselt University
Private equity investments in family firms: agency and behavioral perspectives Ghent University
Family firms are increasingly opening their capital for private equity investors. Private equity investors and family shareholders may hold diverent preferences regarding firms’ strategic behaviour however. The objective of the research project is to investigate decision making in private equity backed family firms as well as the reasons why family firms are willing to cede control to private equity investors.