Past studies on public equity capital options concentrated on the financial or the institutional side of the process. The finance literature considered going public mainly as a way to access new sources of funds and to decrease the cost of capital. Within the family business field, most scholars...

Family businesses play an important role in Italy and comprise not just small firms, but large ones as well. The entrepreneurial family is defined as a group of descendants from a family founder who own shares in a company within the manufacturing, commercial, or service industry. A taxonomy of...

Chapter 1. Introduction,- Chapter 2. Starting an Owner’s Mindset Early: Young Child (Ages 0-12) -- Chapter 3. Forming Leader Identity and Building Business Relationships: Adolescent (Ages 10-20) -- Chapter 4. Family Enterprise Participation without Expectation: Emerging Adult (Ages 18-28) --...

Past research on initial public offerings suggests that the reputation of a company positively affects the success of the offering. Success is usually measured in financial terms as if the essence of the operation lay only in the short-term inflow of money. In this paper, we investigate...