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 …

"The Field Guide to Family Business Research is a concise and accessible guidebook that addresses the unique challenges … associated with conducting high-quality family business research. Intended for both new and more experienced scholars, experts … of the unique aspects of conducting research in the family business domain. With a wealth of expertise and practical …

pt. I: Comparative analysis -- pt. II: Large national markets and large family groups (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina) -- pt …Family businesses are everywhere, but there is little information regarding their growth and development. This book is … one of the few to analyses the identity and evolution of the largest family businesses in Latin America and Spain. With …

Andrés Hatum explores determinants of organizational flexibility in this examination of four family-owned companies … determinants of flexibility and sheds light on the process of transformation and adaptation of family firms, an area that has not …

Contents: Introducing a research agenda for family business / by Andrea Calabrò -- 1 family trends shaping the family … business landscape / Joyce Kox and Astrid Kramer -- 2 developing a "sociological imagination" of families in family business … research / Eric R. Kushins and Elaina Behounek -- 3 history as a source and method for family business research / Christina …