The role of management in the productivity offamily-owned firms is examined, particularly the role of the professional,outside managers versus a member of the owner family. Comparing theproductivity of family-owned firms to that of non-family firms, and controllingfor management regime, allows...

This study examines whether family-owned businesses in Norway are more likely than non-family firms to adopt various practices designed to increase numerical and organizational flexibility.Following a discussion of the theories that lead to the belief that family ownership stimulates the...

Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...