As consumers we rarely think about how the products we order online get to our homes, or how the items we buy from the local shops get there. Indeed, the world is so interconnected nowadays, that buying Japanese tea in a local store in Sweden is nothing out of the ordinary. Neither is ordering a…

In uncertain and volatile times, we need strong and confident leadership, don't we?! The answer might be more complicated than a simple Yes or No. As a psychologist might wittily remark, it all depends... How do we define and see such confidence? Is a confident leader the one, who has all the answers to difficult…

As outlined in my previous post, the prevalence, strategy and performance of family-controlled firms (FCFs) differs across countries, yet research has primarily underscored formal institutions like regulations and legal frameworks to justify these differences. In our research, we widened the scope to explore how informal systems such as social ordering systems, hierarchies and values might…