The national context in which family firms operate influences their behavior and firm-related
outcomes. Especially how and why family businesses differ across contexts has therefore …

This study reviews academic literature on private equity and family firms. Based on a
systematic search process, we identify 50 relevant studies published in the fields of …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review the empirical literature on
management accounting and control in family businesses and to identify future research …

Our quantitative study investigates the determinants of internal versus external exit routes in
family firms. Building on information asymmetry theory, we examine how an owner's inferior …

Social identity theory has been applied to many organizational contexts, including family
businesses. However, the current study is one of the first to explore the organizational …

A single family office (SFO) is an organizational entity owned by a single family and primarily
dedicated to managing assets and meeting the needs of family members. While a rising …

Intra-family succession is a complex and challenging process in which the resources of the
owning family are used, preserved, and potentially expanded. Social capital, as a result of …

In contrast to internal family succession, changes in ownership to nonfamily successors
often mean that owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) request a selling …

In this paper we investigate private equity firm perceptions of sellers' affective deal
commitment in buyout transactions. Using a sample of 174 buyouts, we test trust, goal …

Purpose Commensurate with the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Small Business and
Enterprise Development (JSBED), this retrospective work distils trends across all original …