Stafford, and Mary Winter -- Critical leader relationships in family firms / Nigel Nicholson and Åsa Björnberg -- Business … -- Identification of different types of private family firms / Paul Westhead and Carole Howorth -- From vision to variables : a … Melin, and Mattias Nordqvist -- The professionalization of family firms : theory and practice / Lucrezia Songini …

years 1980-1995 and providing empirical evidence for six European countries, namely Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Belgium …

. Microcredit in France : financial support for social inclusion / Stefanie Lämmermann -- 3. The microcredit sector in Italy : small …

. Family firms as the incubators of new ventures: a transgenerational perspective / M. Brumana, T. Minola, L. Cassia, D. Gamba … success, to suggest that fast growing firms could offer a major contribution to the recovery of a European economy. The … contributors examine 11 case studies from Italian firms, breaking the book up into three parts: context, actors and strategy. The …

over the past three decades; the Marshallian notion of a cluster of small firms has been vastly transformed by the … emergence of rapidly growing firms …

governance arrangements that protect the interests of capital providers. It further examines some of the most critical decisions … established academics and students interested in corporate governance, economics and finance, and business and management …

The authors of this comprehensive study address why it is that some small firms perform well and others don't, and … whether high-performing firms share characteristics that distinguish them from low-performing firms. By exploring bundles of …