Family Owned Business Institute

The Family Owned Business Institutes's mission is to promote, preserve, influence, and impact family businesses thorough quality academic research, curriculum, and information services. The web resource is designed to serve the needs of family businesses, reasearchers and scholars in the field of family business. 

Information resource. 

The website is a convenient online repository for information and research relevant to family-owned businesses. >> 

Networking and community outreach. 

Through its involvement with The Family Business Alliance and the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, the Institute contributes to the cross-sector cooperation that provides research, expertise, practice, and service delivery to family-owned businesses throughout West Michigan. >>

Research and scholarship funding. 

Family-owned businesses benefit from the research and curriculum development funded and supported by the Institute. >>

2012 Family Business Survey

Family owned businesses are a critical component of the West Michigan economy. The Family Owned Business Institute (FOBI) at Grand Valley State University wants to improve our database of family owned businesses in West Michigan to better study and assess the impact family owned businesses have on our economy. We would like to increase the depth and breadth of our database. Thank you for your participation. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us via email at fobi@gvsu.edu

Please take a few moments to complete the survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/777926/Family-Business-Survey-2012