News

Conference presentation

2022.02.21

COPE2022 - 24th Colloquium on Personnel Economics

Post Doc Esther Chevrot will present the paper Value-Based Leadership, written with Morten Bennedsen, at the COPE2022 conference, hosted ny Aarhus University in Herning, 16th - 18th of March, 2022. Abstract: Through a…

Asian family firms

2022.02.14

A Survey of Asian Family Business Research

Morten Bennedsen, Vikas Mehrotra and Yi-Chun Lu conducted a literature survey on family firms with a focus on Asian countries. They begin with identifying three key motivational drivers of research on family business –…

Fellowship

2022.02.10

Induction into the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Morten Bennedsen has been inducted into the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is a prestigious organization founded on 13 November 1742. The Academy is a…

Dynastic-controlled firms

2021.11.01

Dynastic control without ownership: Evidence from post-war Japan

Morten Bennedsen, Vikas Mehrotra and Yapana Wiwattanakantang have studied the performance of dynastic-controlled firms in post-war Japan. Dynastic-controlled firms are firms led by founding-family CEOs while the family…

Gender-balance

2021.10.21

Companies recruit more female board members through family ties

The introduction of a gender quota in Denmark has increased the number of women on company boards, but it also led to more family driven hiring, a new study finds.

Ph.D. Defence

2021.09.03

Esther Chevrot - Ph.D. Completion

Esther Chevrot-Bianco defends her Ph.D. thesis titled Empirical Essays in Institutional and Organizational Economics. Time and place: 10 September 2021 at 15:00 in CSS 26.2.21. Link to attend the PhD defense An…

Family Succession

2021.02.19

The Effect of Returning Family Successions on Firm Performance

Morten Bennedsen and Mario Amore have studied successions from a non-family CEO back to a family CEO - they labelled these “Type-R” successions. In a sample of 489 Italian family firms experiencing the departure of…

Corona hjælpepakker

2021.01.05

Hjælpepakkerne reddede 81.000 jobs!

Article in danish by Morten Bennedsen and Christian Pærregaard Holm in Samfundsøkonomen.

Management practices

2020.09.17

Ledelsespraksis i danske små og mellemstore virksomheder

New report about management practice in Danish firms. Published by the University of Copenhagen and funded by The Danish Industry Foundation. Read more about the research project: Ledelse i unoterede danske…

Publication

2020.08.01

Do CEOs Matter? Evidence from Hospitalization Events

Paper by Morten Bennedsen, Francisco Perez-Gonzalez and Daniel Wolfenzon in Journal of Finance.

Media contribution

2020.07.10

Covid-19 Furloughs Are Getting the Job Done

Article by Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte and Daniela Scur on INSEAD knowledge

Media contribution

2020.06.28

Understanding the impact of government aid to firms in the COVID-19 pandemic

Article by Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte and Daniela Scur on VOX EU & CEPR website.

Publication

2020.06.25

Preserving job matches during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence on the role of government aid

Paper by Morten Bennedsen, Birthe Larsen, Ian Schmutte and Daniela Scur. Read it here.

New research project

2020.06.15

COVID-19 research: Crisis Management in Danish firms

FAMBUSS researchers receive grants to complete new COVID-19 study.

Media contribution

2020.06.15

Hjælpepakker redder titusindvis fra en fyreseddel

Article in Danish about the first results from COVID-19 research project.

New website

2020.04.15

Ledelsesmodel.dk: Online platform with benchmarking tool

New online platform with benchmarking tool to analyse and develop management pratices in Denmark.

Media contribution

2019.12.02

Inside Family Firms

Article about the Family business research at FAMBUSS.

Research presentation

2019.06.03

SOLE conference 2019

Postdoctoral fellow at FAMBUSS, Philip Rosenbaum, presented his working paper "The Family Earnings Gap Revisited: A Household or a Labor Market Problem?" at the twenty-fourth annual Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)…

Media contribution

2019.01.23

Gender Pay Gaps Shrink When Companies Are Required to Disclose Them

Article by Morten Bennedsen, Elena Simintzi, Margarita Tsoutsoura and Daniel Wolfenzon in the Harvard Business Review. Read the full article here.

Media contribution

2018.12.01

Can wage transparency reduce the gender pay gap?

Radio interview with Professor Morten Bennedsen at Money FM. Listen to the full interview here.

Media contribution

2018.07.20

Samsung’s Lee family succession crisis shows the importance of long-term planning

Article by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry in the South China Morning Post. Read the full article here.

Media contribution

2018.07.20

It’s all relative: the four keys to family business longevity

Article by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry in the South China Morning Post. Read the full article here.

Media contribution

2018.07.20

Innovation should always be rooted in the core DNA of owner-managers

Article by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry in the South China Morning Post. Read the full article here.

Media contribution

2018.05.29

Family Business Longevity Requires Owners to Step Back

Blog post on INSEAD Knowledge by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry. Read it here.

Media contribution

2018.05.01

SAMSUNG and the Winger Olympics

Article in ETHICAL BOARDROOM by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry. Read the full article here.

Media contribution

2018.02.16

Planning for Family Business Longevity in Three Steps

Blogpost on INSEAD knowledge by Morten Bennedsen and Brian Henry. Read it here.

Media contribution

2017.11.13

Professor Morten Bennedsen gives interview to the Financial Times

Professor Morten Bennedsen is interviewed by the Financial Times for the article Business schools ‘teach what you can’t learn from your parents’.