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...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular worldwide as a way of improving health care service delivery. In order to enhance our knowledge of PPPs in the health care sector, we conduct a systematic review of forty-six articles published in peer-reviewed journals for the period of...

Internationalization is a strong challenge that firms have to face today. However, small and medium-sized family firms internationalize their business after consolidating their position in domestic markets. Family SMEs approach international markets usually through export activities....

The paper discusses the ownership and control structures of local public utilities by showing evidence from the Italian case. In this discussion, the focus is on three main aspects: the ownership structure, the board composition and independence, and citizens’ involvement (service charters)....

This paper contributes to the family business and the international business literature by analysing whether and to what extent different compositions of the ownership structure and degrees of board strategic involvement impact on the level of international sales of family and non-family...

This article demonstrates how the various paternalistic leadership styles practiced by predecessors influence the attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control of successors in family firms and the extent to which these factors influence a successor's perceptions of the quality...