This Guest Editor's note reflects on the contributions of each article in the Special Issue on family firms' behavior … and performance. Building on this, several under-researched areas concerning family involvement in businesses are …

Based on a structural model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …

contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a …, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this … research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In …

. We do not find significant differences between small and larger firms, family and non-family firms, nor between firms …

Purpose: This study examines whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-FBs with regard to innovative strategies … electronics industry in Taiwan (between 2010 and 2015) as a research sample to determine (1) whether family effects influence … behavior; and (3) the effects of family involvement and CEO-duality in FBs. Finding: Our results show that FBs are less likely …

inter vivos transfers in Germany. The results do not show that the reform influenced transfers within the nuclear family … government ideology and globalization were associated with top income shares in OECD countries. The fourth study shows that …