One of the most significant challenges facing family businesses, and therefore the most studied, is how to successfully manage succession from one generation to the next. The purpose of this article is to allow the vast quantity of evidence and experience to be contextualised, and enable a...

Despite the fact that the family business study has a history and multiple theories that supports research, there is still a need to use approaches that allow a better understanding of the business, starting from the members of the family that comprise it. This research makes a review of the...

Internationalisation is one of the biggest challenges for family businesses. Although prosperous locally, many of these firms often face several difficulties in entering foreign markets. To date, there are contrasting results with respect to the internationalisation behaviour of family...

In this study, we examine new drivers that generate a disposition toward entrepreneurial activity in family firms and how the strategic involvement of the board of directors (SIBD) moderates the relationships between these drivers (image of the firm, willingness to change, and access to...

Large private enterprises in the ASEAN-5 economies have been, and remain, dominated by firms that share four common characteristics: (1) their ownership and control are concentrated among a handful of prominent business families; (2) most of these families have Chinese origins; (3) each family...

El tema de las compensaciones en las empresas casi siempre se ha considerado como un aspect confidencial, sin embargo es necesario conocerlos y analizarlos para facilitar que los pagos sean vistos de manera estratégica y diferenciadores, principalmente en las empresas familiares. El estudio se...

The family business discussed in this paper was founded in 1932 and had sustained growth during the first two decades of operation. It had transformed itself from a local to a national business and started to venture into international markets. The founder of the company had one daughter, an...

Business sustainability has been defined as meeting current needs while providing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. However, few firms invest in practices geared at sustainability. In this paper we investigate how family ties to future generations via the intention of...

Spanish Abstract: Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar y analizar los principales factores que amenazan la sobrevivencia y continuidad de la empresa familiar. Para tal efecto, se realizó una investigación documental y otra de campo. Para la investigación de campo se administró...