Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 2, pp. 183-192
The aim of this article is to analyze the survival patterns of a group of family firms which have already spent at least 25 years in the market. To this end, we use the Kaplan-Meier product limit estimator supplemented with qualitative information gathered by direct observation and discussions...