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ATTRACRING TALENT TO FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES: THE PERCEPTIONS OF MBA STUDENTS

While disentangling the returns to schooling from the returns to unobserved ability is difficult, estimating the returns to college quality is harder still. No good instruments have been found for college quality, and the sample sizes of twins are often too small to obtain accurate estimates of the returns to college quality. 6 A notable exception is Berhman et al. (1996), who find that, after controlling for family background characteristics using twins, there are significant returns to attending colleges of higher “quality” in several observable dimensions. By using data on pre- MBA wages, we are able to distinguish how the average effect on wages varies across the. | WESE Business School University of Navarra Family-Owned Business Chair Working Paper WP-815 August 2009 ATTRACTING TALENT TO FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES THE PERCEPTIONS OF MBA STUDENTS Lucia Ceja Josep Tàpies IESE Business School - University of Navarra Av. Pearson 21 - 08034 Barcelona Spain. Phone 34 93 253 42 00 Fax 34 93 253 43 43 Camino del Cerro del Águila 3 Ctra. de Castilla km 5 180 - 28023 Madrid Spain. Phone 34 91 357 08 09 Fax 34 91 357 29 13 Copyright 2009 IESE Business School. ATTRACTING TALENT TO FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESSES THE PERCEPTIONS OF MBA STUDENTS Lucia Ceja 1 Josep Tàpies 2 Abstract This paper examines the perceptions that MBA students hold regarding family-owned businesses compared to non-family firms. The study is based on the assumption that attracting talent is critical not only for continuous competitive advantage but also for the survival of family-owned businesses. Therefore family-owned firms should promote themselves as equally attractive as non-family organizations in terms of employment opportunities. MBA graduates represent a rich pool of talent that can help family-owned firms to prosper across generations. One avenue of inquiry in this regard is to study MBA students and their perceptions. Consequently studying whether MBA students hold a specific image regarding family-owned businesses is brought to the forefront. With this aim the authors engaged in an enquiry process dealing with MBA students perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of family-owned firms compared to non-family businesses. The sample was composed of 213 MBA students from 20 different countries. The results showed that MBA students do indeed hold a particular image regarding family-owned firms. More specifically some of the findings are that MBA students perceive family-owned firms as having more problems within the ownership than non-family businesses are not as good as non-family firms in attracting talented managers have less job rotation are slower in their .