This article highlights the need for network-related research in family business. It provides a concise review of network related constructs and shows potential applications for family business research. It further highlights issues related to data collection and analysis. The article concludes...

Family firms without able and willing family successors are frequently sold to non-family managers through management buy-outs (MBOs). Whether MBOs create value is thought to be dependent upon the ability to reduce owner–manager agency costs. In this article we examine the agency costs of MBOs...