In an RCT, a large retail chain’s CEO sets new goals for the managers of the treated stores by asking them “to do what they can” to reduce the employee quit rate. The treatment decreases the quit rate by a fifth to a quarter, lasting nine months before petering out, but reappearing after a...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the elements of the particular governance structure of the family business and the involvement of the family in the business in order to verify its effects on managerial capabilities. Likewise, professionalization in this type of company will be...

The present study contends that an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between generational involvement — i.e., the number of family generations simultaneously involved in the family-firm top management team (TMT) — and entrepreneurial orientation (EO). Drawing on the upper echelons...