Publicly traded family businesses in Europe do business with a longer-term perspective and more successfully than companies that are not family businesses - and the greater the influence of the founding family, the better their performance. This is the conclusion reached by the study "Listed family firms in Europe" commissioned by the Foundation for Family Businesses and authored by an international research team directed by Marc Steffen Rapp, Professor at the Marburg Center for Institutional Economics of the Philipps-Universität Marburg.weiterlesen