Purpose: This study contributes to answering the question, can critical success factors of small businesses in emerging markets advance United Nation (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Specifically, this study aims to explore the critical factors contributing to the success of small...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the factors that lead to success or failure of a small business in the West Bank of Palestine. Design/methodology/approach: This study methodology is a survey research, testing the Lussier model of business success and failure with a sample of 246...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to, first, investigate the differences between generations in family businesses and, second, develop and verify the Family Business Success Model ability to improve the probability of business success measured by perceived profits, growth and meeting the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare first‐, second‐, and third‐generation family business managerial characteristics and practices in a combined sample from six countries (Croatia, Egypt, France, India, Kuwait, and the USA) with significant differences in cultures,...

Purpose – While family firms constitute a highly important component of most countries' economies, and in many countries a sizable portion of these family businesses are owned and managed by women, there has been minimal study of gender issues in family business ownership and management. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how family businesses change as they grow in size, and to compare differences between the USA and France. Design/methodology/approach – The research design is survey research, statistically t ‐testing 12 hypothesized differences between...

Purpose – This paper sets out to investigate small business success factors in Chile. Design/methodology/approach – The research on which this paper is based involves a survey correlational study involving a sample of 145 small business owners in Chile that replicates Lussier's success...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate, in a multi‐country context, the inclusion of family‐member managers and non‐family‐member managers in family businesses, and the relationship of this variable to certain management activities, styles and characteristics....

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to measure and compare differences in levels of family business planning for succession in seven countries: Croatia, Egypt, France, India, Kosovo, Kuwait, and the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The research methodology was survey research...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare “micro” enterprise (0-9 employees) to “small” enterprise (10-49 employees) family businesses with regard to 12 important managerial characteristics in eight countries: Argentina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Kosovo, Kuwait, Serbia, and the...