Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and...

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a internacionalizaçâo da PME familiar baseando-se, por um lado, na abordagem pelo conhecimento e em particular do aprendizado organizacional e por outro lado, na literatura relacionada às especificidades da empresa familiar. Do ponto de vista teorico...

The aim of this theoretical contribution is to analyze the processes of organizational learning and knowledge development within the small and medium sized family firm. Due to its founding characteristics, family SME seems to be a closed, hermetic and rigid organization. Besides, the specificity...

Despite the profusion of studies concerning knowledge-based processes within the firm, rare studies tried to analyse them for the family business. Due to its specificities, this entity shows a particular behaviour as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of...

La présente contribution, à portée théorique, vise à analyser l'entreprise familiale selon deuxpoints de vue, organisationnel et stratégique. Il s'agit d'abord de montrer l'existence d'unparticularisme de l'entreprise familiale s'agissant de sa configuration de propriété et de...

The financial behavior of the family firm is a recurring topic in the literature. Hirigoyen's pioneer research (1984) reveals the specificity of the financial behaviors of industrial family medium-sized companies compared to those of the other categories of firms. This type of firms set out...