This chapter suggests including family firms among the leading investors of the social finance market. Although social finance literature has largely overlooked them, we argue that large family firms possess the financial (e.g., profitability, capital structure, liquidity) and non-financial...

Purpose: Drawing on upper echelons theory (UET) and arguments from behavioral theory of the firm, this paper aims to contribute to the debate on family involvement-performance relationship, by considering the mediating role of the propensity towards merger and acquisition (M&A) and the...

Purpose: The study, by focusing on a context dominated by firms with a concentrated ownership, in which type-II agency problems (principal-principal conflicts) may occur, aims to depict which board configurations may be effective in protecting minority shareholders by mitigating the risk of...

Il presente lavoro, inserendosi tra i più recenti studi sul marketing nel family business, si pone un duplice obiettivo: da un lato, indagare la diversa intensità con cui le imprese familiari valorizzano la propria natura nella comunicazione online; dall’altro, comprendere quali...