Anneleen MIchiels, PhD
Associate Professor | Researcher | Speaker | Advisor | Finance | Family Business
ABOUT
Research
My research focuses on the influence of money on the family business and the business family and is published in international academic as well as practitioner-oriented journals. All publications can be read here.
EDUCATION
I educate students at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels on (strategic) finance and governance at Hasselt University, Belgium. I am also the founder and coordinator of executive courses for family wealth advisors.
ADVISING AND SPEAKING
I am a family business advisor, and a regular speaker and workshop facilitator on relevant family business & family office topics around the world, to various academic and practitioner audiences. Topics include: money in the business family, developing sustainable dividend policies, family offices as a vehicle for longterm impact creation, compensation dilemmas in family businesses, professionalizing the business family, navigating the complexities of finance in the family business, and the basics of finance.
academic research papers
Money education in the business family: a perspective article - With C. Astrachan
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order - with K. Jansen, W. Voordeckers and T. Steijvers
The effect of CEO entrepreneurial passion on family firm entrepreneurial orientation: does generational stage matter? - with R. Vanhees, J. Schepers and P. Vandekerkhof
Understanding family firm intentions to use private equity: A theory of planned behavior perspective - with C. Graves and P-S. Seet
Dividend decisions in family busineses: A systematic review and research agenda - with V. Molly
Toward a family science perspective on executive compensation in family firms: A review and research agenda - with I. Botero and R. Kidwell
Entrepreneurial Financial Literacy - with L. Vekemans and J. Schepers
Formal HRM in family SMEs: the role of family-centered goals and family governance - with D. Arijs and L. Uhlaner
The impact of the CEO's financial literacy on family SME's: growth: the moderating role of generational stage - with J. Diéguez-Soto, M.J. Martinez-Romero and M. Corten
Mental Health in Family Businesses and Business Families: A Systematic Review - with D. Arijs
Executive compensation in family businesses: A review and framework for future research - with I. Botero and R. Kidwell
Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements - with C.B. Astrachan, J. Astrachan and J. Kotlar
Family business employer brand: Understanding applicants' perceptions and their job pursuit intentions with samples from the US and Belgium - with D. Arijs, I. Botero and V. Molly
Financing decisions in family businesses: A review and suggestions for developing the field - with V. Molly
Leasing as an Alternative Form of Financing within Family Businesses: The important Advisory Role of the Accountant - with J. Schepers, P. Vandekerkhof and A. Cirillo
Compensation Policies in Family and Non-Family SMEs: Survey Evidence from Flanders - with W. Voordeckers, N. Lybaert and T. Steijvers
The Effect of Family Business Professionalization on Dividend Payout - with L. Uhlaner and J. Dekker
Dividends and Family Governance Practices in Private Family Firms - with W. Voordeckers, N. Lybaert and T. Steijvers
CEO Compensation in Private Family Firms: Pay-for-Performance and the Moderating Role of Ownership and Management - with W. Voordeckers, N. Lybaert and T. Steijvers
practitioner articles & reports
It's (Not At) All About The Money: The Many Misunderstood and Underexplored Manifestations of Money in the Business Family - with C. B. Astrachan
Punishment, Reward, Control: How Money Shows up in the Business Family - with C. B. Astrachan
Single Family Offices in België: Een Verkennend Onderzoek - with Silke Vandermeulen and Wim Voordeckers
Does the Family Matter? Improving Executive Compensation Practices in Family Firms - with R. Kidwell and I. Botero
Mental Wellbeing for the HERO in Families and their Businesses - with D. Arijs and D. Welsh
Professionalizing the Business Family: The Five Pillars of Competent, Committed, and Sustainable Ownership - with C.B. Astrachan, M. Waldkirch, T. Pieper and F. Bernhard
Dividendbeslissingen in Familiebedrijven - in De Bestuurder
Developing Constructive Communciation as a Central Ownerhip Competence - with M. Waldkirch and A. Hall
Dividend Decisions in Family Businesses - in Guberna
Family Offices: Challenges and Unmet Needs - with A. Gonzalez and D. Welsh
A Closer Look at Dividend Policies - Linkedin Blogpost
Goals, Governance and HR Systems in Family Businesses- Linkedin Blogpost
Executive Compensation in Family Firms- Linkedin Blogpost
Bringing Research to the Family Business Frontlines- Linkedin Blogpost
Can Private Equity Provide a Solution to the Upcoming Succession Crisis?- Linkedin Blogpost
books & chapters
Financing the Family Business - with A. Cirillo, E. Carbone and L. Vekemans
Financing the Growth of the Family Business: A Research Agenda - with A. Cirillo, A. Dawson and D. Mussolino
Essays on Executive Compensation and Dividend Policy in Privately-Held Family Firms - PhD Thesis
OP-EDS AND INTERVIEWS
Om een familiebedrijf te vrijwaren van conflict volstaat het soms de nooduitgang te zien - De Tijd - Maart 2024
Het geluk van Willy Naessens - De Tijd - Dec 2023
Generaties in Plaats van Kwartalen - De Bestuurder - Jun 2023
Versterk het Psychologisch Kapitaal in Familiebedrijven - De Tijd - Feb 2023
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Zeventig Belgische families heben en spaarpot van 23 miljard - De Tijd - Maart 2024
De miljardenbusiness achter het family office - De Tijd - Maart 2024
Een blik onder de motorkap van family offices - Investment Officer - Jan 2024
Geld en psychologie in een familiebedrijf - KBC Private Expert Magazine - Feb 2024
Familiale investeringsvehikels denken in generaties, niet in kwartalen - De Tijd - Oct 2023
Le family office est-il fait pour vous? - L'Echo - Oct 2023
Adviseur helpt conflicten in familiebedrijf benoemen en oplossen - De Bestuurder - Oct 2023
Hoe pak ik de emotionele kant van het familiebedrijf aan? - HBVL - Jan 2023
Familiebedrijven zijn niet altijd de heilige graal - Investment Officer - April 2022
Deugt de aandeelhoudersovereenkomst van uw familiebedrijf? - Etion - Jan 2021
Podcasts
The Manifestations of Money in the Business Family - FFI Practitioner Podcast
Compensation Policies in Family Firms - Enterprising Families Podcast
Applying Family Science to Executive Compensation in Family Firms - FFI Practitioner Podcast
Kan je met één aandeel rijk worden - Universiteit van Vlaanderen
Contact
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