The Organizational Form of Family Business attempts to develop an evolutionary family business theory, positioning family businesses as a distinct organizational form (based on conjectures from organizational ecology). An open and uninhibited playing field - achieved through utilizing a grounded...

The goal of this paper was to develop a model which could help conceptualize the value and implication of a relationship between an SME (small- or medium-sized firm) and the respective bank(s). Based on an extensive literature review, this paper argues for a theoretical model, which assists in...