This report investigates listed family firms in the UK and focuses on their incidence, industrial and geographical … context, governance and performance. At the time of writing we identified 70 family firms who were listed in the years 2007 … for smaller firms). In order to qualify as a family firm the European definition of a public family firm was applied which …

This report investigates family businesses in the UK and focuses on their incidence, industrial and geographical … context and their governance and performance relative to non-family businesses. The sample includes near population UK data … million firm-year observations. The report compares and contrasts family businesses with non-family businesses with reference …