1. Witten Institute for Family Business; University Witten/Herdecke; Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50 D-58448 Witten Germany
2. Institute for Organization and Human Resource Management (IOP), University of Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 4, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland, and Witten Institute for Family Business; University Witten/Herdecke; Germany
3. College of Business, Department of Management and Information Systems; Mississippi State University; USA
4. Centre for Management Buyout Research, Imperial College Business School, Tanaka Building, South Kensington Campus, London, UK, and Ghent University; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Hoveniersberg 4 Ghent Belgium
5. Department of Management, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA, and INTES Center for Family Enterprises; WHU (Otto Beisheim School of Management); Germany