While prior literature suggests that family firms with a positive corporate image are associated with superior …'s global brand value data published between 2001 and 2017 to examine the effect of family ownership and family-named firms on … brand value creation. Our findings indicate that within the sample of large global firms, family firms exhibit lower brand …

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 …