Family business research, inside Claude
Dashy is a connector for the family business literature. Add it to Claude once, then ask in plain language — it searches the corpus, ranks scholars, institutions and journals, and returns references you can cite, all from a curated dataset of 9,500+ publications.
https://data.familybusiness.se/mcp
Paste this URL into Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
Search the corpus
Find papers by topic, theory, method, country context, publication year, or journal quality — any combination of filters.
Size the field
Count how many publications match a set of filters, with no result cap, to gauge how large a stream of research is.
Find the leading scholars
Surface the most prolific authors on a topic or theory, ranked by paper count, with their most recent work.
Locate the key references
Pull the most-cited papers on a topic or theory, optionally within a year range — the anchors of a literature.
See where the work lands
List the journals publishing most on a topic, alongside their AJG rating and paper counts.
Map an institution
Identify the most active family business authors at a given university, with total and primary-affiliation counts.
Read the classification scheme
Return the controlled vocabulary — topics, theories, methods and countries — used to organise the whole corpus.
Build a bibliography
Assemble full, APA-grade bibliographic metadata for a set of papers from their DOIs, ready to drop into a reference list.
Add the connector
In Claude, open Settings → Connectors, choose Add custom connector, and paste the MCP server URL above. It takes about a minute.
Sign in when prompted
Authentication runs through a standard sign-in step. Claude never sees a password, and you can disconnect at any time from Claude's settings.
Ask in plain language
Enable Dashy for a conversation and ask away — for example, “How many papers link socioemotional wealth to succession, and who are the top authors?” Claude calls the right tools and answers from the dataset.
How is this different from the web Ask? The Ask box on fbdashboard.org answers one question at a time in the browser. The connector puts the same dataset inside your own Claude conversation, where you can chain questions, combine them with your own documents, and carry results into whatever you are writing.
The Dashy connector is built on the same dataset behind the Family Business Research Dashboard — every article retrieved from OpenAlex and classified through an AI-assisted pipeline by topic, theory, method, and country. It is an independent companion to the dashboard, made for people who would rather query the literature than browse it. Like the dashboard, it is an initiative of the WIFU Foundation, powered by CeFEO at Jönköping International Business School.
