Publications
2025.12 : Les entreprises familiales « L’ombre du fondateur »
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
https://www.ln24.be/videos/2025/12/12/les-entreprises-familiales-l-ombre-du-fondateur-3s8xum3/
2025.11 : Raphaëlle Mattart: "Les tensions dans les grandes entreprises familiales ne sont pas toujours un problème"
“L’Echo – French-language daily for economic and financial information
2025.11: Family businesses "The age taboo".
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
https://www.ln24.be/videos/2025/11/20/les-entreprises-familiales-le-tabou-de-l-age-338m0rq/
2025.10: Family businesses "family CEO or not"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
https://www.ln24.be/videos/2025/10/20/les-entreprises-familiales-ceo-familial-ou-non-3xrs08z/
2025.10: "Family businesses, the spearhead of our economy".
Trends Tendances Magazine – economic and financial weekly
https://trends.levif.be/entreprises/les-entreprises-familiales-fer-de-lance-de-notre-economie/
2025.09 : Family businesses "The importance of family cohesion".
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2025.06: Family businesses "Taking their business elsewhere"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
https://www.ln24.be/videos/2025/06/30/les-entreprises-familiales-faire-ses-armes-ailleurs-305xrp3/
2025.05: Family businesses "Between tradition and innovation"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2025.04: Family businesses "From solo entrepreneur to family entrepreneur"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2025.03 : Family businesses " Community impact - Terres du Val " ?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
https://www.ln24.be/videos/2025/03/26/les-entreprises-familiales-avec-les-terres-du-val-xz8mvzk/
2025.03 : Family businesses " What is a family council?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2025.02: Family businesses "Selling your family business"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2025.02: Family Firms Prosper When Shareholders Think Like Trustees
Simons Fabian, Mattart Raphaëlle, Kleve Heiko, (Feb. 2025). “Family Firms Prosper When Shareholders Think Like Trustees”, Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange, published online at FamilyBusiness.org, as research insights.
https://familybusiness.org/content/family-firms-prosper-when-shareholders-think-like-trustees
2024.11 : Interview Raphaëlle Mattart - Family business: taming the limits
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2024.07: Family businesses "How to reconcile work and family life"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2024.06: When the family business has to cope with social change
Trends Tendances – press article
2024.06: Family succession: how to manage the financial and emotional aspects?
2024.06: Sustainability and family businesses: the voice of the Next Gen
EY article – web article (empirical analysis)
2024.06 : Family Succession stereotypes
TRANSEO Summit 2024 – video
2024.05: Family businesses "ESG challenges & how to continue investing in uncertain times"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2024.04: Family businesses "Why dare to open up to outsiders"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2024.04: Family businesses "How to define corporate governance"?
LN24 Success Stories, family businesses – TV show
2024.03: Family Businesses: Going beyond the limits
KPMG board of Leadership Center – web article
https://kpmg.com/be/en/home/insights/2024/03/blc-family-businesses-going-beyond-the-limits.html
2024.03: Van Hool family, a company in disarray
2024.01 : Family transmission: how to stay on track?
GUBERNA- web article
https://www.guberna.be/fr/know/transmission-familiale-comment-ne-pas-perdre-le-fil
2023.12: A house of entrepreneurship at ICHEC
Trends – press article
https://trends.levif.be/entreprises/une-maison-du-repreneuriat-a-lichec/
2023.07 : Two international awards for Raphaëlle Mattart
TRANSEO Summit 2023- video
2023.06 : Roles of the family constitutions
TRANSEO Summit 2023 – video
2023.06 : Best dissertation Award of the Family Firm Institute - USA
Family Firm Institute – web article
https://digital.ffi.org/ffi-on-friday/congratulations-to-the-2023-academic-award-recipients/
2023.05: Master Class on family business
Boghossian Foundation – web article
2023.04: GovernanceS - what differences and complementarities?
TRANSEO academic session – video
2023.01 : Raphaëlle Mattart shares the key learnings from her doctoral thesis on family constitutions
2021.09 : Lobby Forum on family business
Lobby – web article
https://highlevelcom.be/fr/59241-forum-de-lobby-family-business.html
2021.03: Research into family entrepreneurship and practical lessons for entrepreneurs
2021.02 : - Culture in the digital age
HEC Spirit of Management – Article p. 42-43
2020.06: Family businesses: what are their strengths in the face of the Covid crisis?
La Libre Belgique – press article
2019.06 : Raphaëlle Mattart, winner of the Province of Liège's Consular Corps Prize
Université de liège – web article
2019.06: HEC Liège Research Day - Familiness presentation
HEC Liège – video
2019.01: Family entrepreneurship, more topical than ever!
La libre Belgique – press article
Publications / research
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Family Constitutions Regulating the Bright and Dark Sides of Family Involvement: Toward an Integrative Framework
January 2026
Scientific article, European Journal of Family Business. Mattart, R., Bammens, Y., & Pirnay, F. (2025).
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Mind the Gap – When governance doesn’t go as written
October 2025
Academic Insight for GUBERNA practitioners
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How to avoid losing touch with the family? Testimonials from 31 entrepreneurs
December 2023
Applied research book
The Chaire familles en entreprises (ICHEC) team in collaboration with Raphaëlle Mattart
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Opening the black box of family constitutions: An analysis of their roles, drivers and outcomes in a business family context
January 2023
Doctoral thesis (in Economics and Management)
Raphaëlle MATTART
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The family business in the test of time: between sense and nonsense
December 2022
Applied Research Report
Raphaëlle MATTART ; Fabrice PIRNAY ; Nathalie Crutzen
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Openness of governance and capital in family firms: An exploratory analysis in Belgium, France and Luxembourg
October 2020
Applied Research Report
Raphaëlle MATTART ; Fabrice PIRNAY ; Nathalie Crutzen