CFB Family Business (CFB), founded in 2013, is Ireland's leading family business research group. Working with international academic partners from the world’s leading family business research centers and with family business practitioners, CFB Family Business produces research that readily translates into evidence-based practice. This research is then shared with family businesses both nationally and internationally. Dr Eric Clinton is Ireland’s national representative on STEP, the largest global research project on family business.

CFB Family Business is part of the All Ireland Family Business Research Network (AIFBRN), a research collaboration between universities across the island of Ireland, including DCU, Ulster University, University College Cork and the University of Limerick.