Through a systematic review of 118 peer‐reviewed journal articles published between 1961
and 2017, this article provides an integrative picture of the state of the art of the family firm …

What makes some families more entrepreneurial than others? How are they able to nurture
entrepreneurship across generations? These are fundamental questions for family business …

German Mittelstand firms are globally recognized for their innovation, especially regarding
product, process, and service innovation. So what can scholars and managers across the …

Sustainable product innovation is a key issue facing agri-food companies to maintain and
increase their competitiveness. Based on a sample of 320 international agri-food companies …

While internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to
emulate it, the current debate in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of …

Family firm heterogeneity results in reduced predictability of firm behavior as well as
inconsistent results regarding research on family firm behavior. We argue that family firm …

The role of family firms in innovation and the question of whether family firms show
differences in innovation investments and outcomes are intensely debated. To address …

This study explores how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) build on business
networks to develop dynamic capabilities that ultimately foster the adoption of non-disruptive …

Family enterprises in China have significant impact on China's social and economic
development. Yet did technological innovation in Chinese family enterprise play a role on …

As more and more females join boards of directors, their decisions concerning
environmental innovation have also become the focus of scholars. Based on the upper …