{"id":2135,"date":"2026-09-14T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2026-09-10T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:48:52","slug":"esg-performance-in-family-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/2026\/esg-performance-in-family-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG performance in family firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to common wisdom, the unique characteristics of family firms give them a <strong>natural edge when it comes to ESG performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iese.edu\/es\/insight\/articulos\/empresa-familiar-esg-sostenibilidad-proposito\/\">IESE Insight article<\/a> suggests a more nuanced reality, with highlights from recent research by NYU Stern professor <strong>Bel\u00e9n Villalonga<\/strong> and IESE professors <strong>Marta Elvira, Igor Kadach<\/strong> and <strong>Gaizka Ormazabal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iese.edu\/insight\/articles\/family-business-ownership-sustainability-purpose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">What drives sustainability performance? Lessons from family firms<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to common wisdom, the unique characteristics of family firms give them a natural edge when it comes to ESG performance. This IESE Insight article suggests a more nuanced reality, with highlights from recent research by NYU Stern professor Bel\u00e9n Villalonga and IESE professors Marta Elvira, Igor Kadach and Gaizka Ormazabal. What drives sustainability performance? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2313,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14094,117510],"tags":[96062,132],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-whats-new","tag-esg","tag-sustainability","megacategoria-mc-family-business"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}