The Handbook of Research on Family Business provides a comprehensive first port of call for those wishing to survey … progress in the theory and practice of family business research. In response to the extensive growth of family business as a …Introduction : the business of researching family enterprises / Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Kosmas X. Smyrnios and …

This authoritative research review provides a broad overview of the role that family firms, both those publicly listed … and privately held, play in the global economy. The editors have selected seminal papers which investigate how the family … exist between family control of corporations and other governance mechanisms. Given the relevance of corporate governance …

"The intertwining of family relationships with business imperatives provides a fascinating but complex arena for study …. This Encyclopedia is a valuable resource because family business studies are necessarily multi-disciplinary and wide …-ranging, drawing on entrepreneurship, management, governance, economics, ethics, business history, as well as family studies. The …

out of necessity / Wendy Lindsay -- 8. The role of family capital in necessity entrepreneurship / Gibb Dyer -- 9. Policy …