Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand whether the innovative effort of organizations increases or decreases over time, especially when the competitive environment is changing, as has been the case in the current economic downturn. For this reason, the objective of this article...

This article contributes to the understanding of why some management experiences of non-family CEOs (NF-CEOs) in privately-owned family firms (POFFs) are successful while others are not. It uses the flexible pattern matching technique to examine seven case studies of POFFs with different...