They are very few studies that combine family business and internationalisation theory. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to study these topics trying to answer the following question: Is the family character a factor that affects firm's commitment in foreign markets? From a sample of...

Family ownership, reduced size of productive centers, and concentration are historical trends that characterize the development of the Spanish iron and steel wire firms in international comparison. Agreements at regional level between the most significant family firms of the sector allowed...

El presente estudio analiza las causas del racionamiento de crédito en las micro y pequeñas empresas peruanas. Dado que en Perú se produce un especial problema en el acceso al crédito puesto que el sistema financiero no está plenamente desarrollado y las posibilidades de acceso al...

This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of financial conservatism in firms' capital structures and relate it to their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital...