Guide to key resources on family-controlled businesses plus tips for researching family business topics.

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Major Sources
Finding Articles on Topics
Citing Sources

Major Sources

Family Firm Institute - quick Facts & Figures on family enterprises around the world.  Publishers of Family Business Review.

Family Business Magazine - site includes lists of oldest family businesses in America, America's 150 largest and the World's largest family businesses.

Institute for Family Enterprising at Babson College Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship - see their Applied Research

• MassMutual Financial Group/Raymond Institute American Family Business Survey 
• Women in Family-Owned Businesses

Family Business Network  - members receive Families in Business

Fambizz.net - Grant Thornton advice

International Family Enterprise Research Academy -

Books

Family Enterprise Publishers - publishers of the following:

• Family Business Sourcebook. HD62.25 .F34 (Information Desk1) - compilation of articles edited by Craig E. Aronoff et al. from Family Enterprise Publishers.
• Family Leadership Series - on order

More Horn Library books on Family-Owned Business Enteprises.

Finding Articles on Family Enterprising

Major Family Business Trade Journals
If articles are not available online, request a copy via Interlibrary Loan.

• Families in Business - some articles are available at Grant Thornton. Application for free subscription.
• Family Business Review: Journal of the Family Firm Institute.  - browse and search all issues of this research journal. Indexed by ProQuest 1999+
• Family Business Magazine
• fambiz.com - Browse and search brief articles and presentations produced by this organization hosted by Northeastern University's Center for Family Business.
• Family Business Advisor

Search the databases below to locate articles in the widest range of publications.

ProQuest - search any business topic. Includes Family Business Review.
   To focus your results, search:   family w/2 business*
   To broaden results, search: family w/2 business* in Article Text.

EBSCOhost - includes Harvard Business Review.  Use the terms:
   family w2 business*

InfoTrac General Business File -  covers journals such as Private Asset Management.

Compiled by Frances Nilsson