While progress has been made in recent years to understand the differences among family
firms, insights remain fragmented due, in part, to an incomplete understanding of …

This article systematically reviews and critically examines 72 journal articles published (from
1980 to 2012) on the internationalization of family firms. Stemming from existing literature …

Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become the methodology of choice for many family
business researchers investigating complex relationships between latent constructs, such as …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between firms' intellectual
capital (IC), financial performance (FP) and market value (MV) as well as the relationship …

Agency and stewardship theories are prominent perspectives to examine myriad issues
within family firms. Although considered opposing theories, both address the same …

This paper examines for the first time dual-class equity crowdfunding as a digital ownership
model. Unique to this context, companies can set an investment threshold under which no …

This study has investigated the relationship between corporate governance and firm
performance in Sri Lanka. Board Size, CEO duality, and proportion of non-executive …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyse the impact of intellectual
capital (IC) and growth opportunities on firms' financial performance as well as the …

The universe of family firms is heterogeneous, and findings gleaned from publicly listed firms
may not apply to the ubiquitous, but less frequently studied, privately held family firm (PFF) …

This article develops a familiness scale measuring the family influence on the business via
decision premises that express familiness. In three studies, we examine familiness with …