The present work represents an analysis of the different strengths and weaknesses that can be considered as key factors in making easier or more difficult the internationalisation process of the family firm. In one hand, based to the resources and capabilities theory, we show how family...

Drawing on data obtained from 765 small and medium sized enterprises, this paper explores the extent to which family ownership influences firm's strategic orientation. Through a cluster analysis, different groups of organizations were identified, defined by the strategic development of their...

The goal of this work is to analyze whether certain resources related to human, social and financial capital influence the speed of the export development process of family firms. We use event history analysis applied to a sample of Spanish manufacturing family firms. The results show that only...