Since the mid-eighties, attention both of professionals and academics has been drawn on the " Family Business " phenomenon". Research on the family companies has known a significant renewal of interest, mostly in the Anglo-Saxon world. Recently, the economic and financial press echoed this...

Research on family businesses has undergone rapid development in the past two decades. Broadly speaking, such companies perform better than nonfamily businesses, as recent investigations in Japan support. To obtain a more precise result, this research has applied to the Japanese context a...