Studies on open innovation (OI) have highlighted the importance of inter-organizational knowledge networks. However, little is known about OI networks established by family firms, and their roles in such knowledge networks. By focusing on one of the most important Italian footwear clusters, this...

This study aims to explore how family firms pursue strategies that promote strategic flexibility and knowledge-management (KM) practices to respond to strategic-renewal goals. Specifically, based on a knowledge-based view of the firm, the following research question is proposed: Are there...

In the majority economic areas of the world, family businesses are the overwhelming majority, it is certain in the case of small and medium-sized businesses. Large family companies - in opposition to common opinion - are not the economy margin. It is other way round, they are not directly...