Through its rapid growth during the past decade, family business research has reached its
adolescence as a field of study, and family business scholars now regularly contribute …

We posit that family firms often face a dilemma in their strategic decision making: whether to
maintain current socioemotional wealth or pursue prospective financial wealth. Applying …

Whereas existing research on the longevity of family firms has focused on the survival of
firms, this article investigates transgenerational entrepreneurship of families. By building on …

The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like nonfamily firms and
“professionalize.” Despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to …

Sondos G. Abdel Gawad is Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurship Department of IE
Business School, Madrid, Spain. She holds Bachelor degree of Business Administration …

Supply chain management has emerged as a vital capability of operational excellence for
companies in India, which is currently one of the fastest growing emerging economies …

This article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the role of kinship in
entrepreneurship. Kinship, we argue, is a key ingredient of the social and cultural …

This chapter reviews the past and present contribution of social anthropology to mainstream
entrepreneurship research since it took off as an important business discipline in the 1980s …

Family business shows the promise of becoming a respected scholarly field in research
universities. However, success is not a given. We inquire about its prospects, with reference …

Despite numerous attempts to establish the link between family involvement and firm
performance, research findings are alarmingly inconsistent. Some researchers, mostly …