receives legal protection, is associated with a reduction of family firms' research and development (R&D) investment. This … suggests that early disclosure of patent applications is perceived as a threat to family firms' innovation activity and … discourages their R&D investment. This finding deserves our attention because family firms account for a large share of the U …

Evidence from around the globe shows that family firms are enduring, resilient forms of profit-seeking and not an … archaic, transient form that will inevitably disappear. Social science research has tended to characterize the family values … suggests an alternative heuristic approach of treating family firms as kinship enterprises that endure beyond the life of the …

Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet … of the family has been very important in making decisions regarding migration and answering questions from why to how to … family and kinship on decisions regarding return migration, the re-adjustment process, remigration or transnational life …

Deutschland ist für seine Familienunternehmen bekannt, die das Eigentum am Unternehmen innerhalb der Familie halten und …Germany is known for its family-owned businesses that transfer ownership across generations. However, business owners … in Germany increasingly envision selling their business beyond the family, which fundamentally changes the …

more recent origins through family lines. We use a journalistic rich list published by the manager magazin in 2019, which …

A stronger long-term orientation is considered a competitive advantage of family firms relative to non-family firms. In … family is involved in the management of the firm is the firm found to invest more in long-term projects relative to a non-family … firm. We also find that investment in long-term projects in family firms is determined less by cash flow variations than …