The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of distance on acquisitions by family firms in India. Strategic decisions like mergers and acquisitions have a spatial dimension, since firms seek information and choose among geographically scattered alternatives. Using a logit regression...

Even though family firms (FFs) constitute a significant proportion of the emerging multinationals (EMNEs) in some big emerging economies like India, but the role of family ownership and management in internationalization of FFs from these economies has rarely received scholarly attention. In...