The purpose of this guidebook is to provide a practical overview of conflict management in family businesses. It highlights common types of conflicts in family businesses, along with the various methods and mechanisms to mitigate and resolve disputes. The guidebook features a fictional case study of a GCC family business to demonstrate how the theory applies and how to deploy the mitigation and resolution tools in real-life situations.

This guidebook can help two sets of family business circumstances. First, families that want to ensure that they pre-empt conflict. Second, families who need to manage and resolve a conflict that has already emerged in an effective manner.