{"id":907,"date":"2023-05-17T08:03:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T06:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/?p=907"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:37:16","slug":"the-pros-and-cons-of-joining-the-family-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/2023\/the-pros-and-cons-of-joining-the-family-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"The (ir)resistible lure of joining the family firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From small businesses to large-scale multinationals, most of the world\u2019s enterprises are <strong>family-owned<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For their heirs, <strong>joining the family business isn\u2019t always a given<\/strong>, with many opting to develop their careers outside the organization. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2023\/04\/05\/the-resistible-lure-of-the-family-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article in <em>The Economist<\/em><\/a> touches on some of its pros and cons.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2023\/04\/05\/the-resistible-lure-of-the-family-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">The resistible lure of the family firm<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Homepage image: <\/em><span class=\"rTNyH RZQOk\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@antjt?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Anthony Tyrrell<\/a> on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/Bl-LiSJOnlY?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\"><em>Unsplash<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From small businesses to large-scale multinationals, most of the world\u2019s enterprises are family-owned. For their heirs, joining the family business isn\u2019t always a given, with many opting to develop their careers outside the organization. This article in The Economist touches on some of its pros and cons. The resistible lure of the family firm &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2313,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,117510],"tags":[117473,117570],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-whats-new","tag-family-firm","tag-generational-change"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}