Part I: Essentials -- 1. Nature of Family Business -- 2. Governance in the Family Businesses -- 3. Socioemotional Wealth in Family Businesses -- Part II: Strategic Aspects -- 4. Strategic Management in the Family Businesses -- 5. Succession and Family Businesses Longevity.-6. Human Resource...

In this article we compare the governance choices of family and non-family firms regarding their subcontracting tendencies. Based on transaction cost theory, we argue that family firms are less likely to engage in subcontracting than non-family firms and that kinship ties, the extent to which a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the socio‐emotional wealth perspective to examine how the level of family involvement reduces the propensity to use incentives to non‐family managers in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SME) family firms. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Part I: Traditional Self-Employed Artisans, Home-Made Goods and Markets -- Ground Loom Weaving Among Negev Bedouin Women -- Artisans in Ethiopia -- Craft Artisans in Namibia’s Okavango Tribe -- Artisan Enterprise in the Rural Economy: Drystone Walling in North Yorkshire -- Traditional Food and...

Organisational Mindset of Entrepreneurship: An Overview -- Entrepreneurial Leadership and Its Impact on the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Ventures -- Too Much of a Good Thing? Employee Human Capital and the Accelerated Internationalization of Belgian Small and Medium-Sized Companies --...

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