This study explores the emotional and relational experiences of in-laws in family businesses-an under-researched area in the family business literature. Drawing on Social Identity Theory (SIT), the research investigates whether in-laws working in Italian family SMEs experience a recurring...

Purpose Drawing on Bandura’s social learning theory (SLT), the purpose of this paper is to investigate, analytically, the impact that after-training skills level (i.e. perceived skill match) has on change self-efficacy. Moreover, this research also aims to identify which specific skills sets...

Purpose This research paper aims to integrate the employee-related factors that empirical literature considers antecedents of performance (skills, work motivation, personal characteristics) into a multiple linear regression model, and to test such a model in order to measure the level of each...

This paper aims to present a review of recent research carried out by the Author involving a large sample of Italian family Small and Medium Enterprises, (SMEs) investigating cognitive and cultural issues at the base of gender stereotype mechanisms. This paper also aims to discuss if and to what...