family firms play in this. This theme is particular relevant from a European point of view given the large number of firms … that are family-owned. Governments often support environmentally and socially beneficial innovation with various policy … parallel, firms use corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental management systems partly in the hope that this …

Empirical evidence is offered about the change in ownership structure following Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and its … impact on the long-term stock performance of family-owned firms in Germany. The data analyzed include 105 IPOs of founding … family-owned firms floated between January 1970 and December 1990. The family firms in the sample are at a very late stage in …

previous evidence by Jaskiewicz (2006) and Andres (2008) that family ownership and management has a positive impact on a firm …Family firms are an important phenomenon of the German capital market. We analyse the broadest market segment of the … German Stock Exchange, the CDAX, for the years 1998 to 2008. According to a founding-family definition almost half of all …