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...

Entrepreneurship in family firms is critical to their long-term survival. Questions on whether and to what extent entrepreneurial behaviors are transferred through generations are dominating the family business research field. However, prior research shows inconclusive and ambiguous findings. On...

During the last decades considerable academic attention has been given to the internationalization of family businesses, as it is often considered a way to revitalize both the family and the business. Despite this increasing attention, the debate on its drivers, challenges and constraints is...