Two-thirds of all businesses worldwide are family firms. For these family firms, absorptive capacity (AC) is key to acquiring, assimilating, transforming, and exploiting new, external knowledge for purposes of value creation. In this study, we conduct a literature review to obtain an overview of...

Recent research has shown that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of family business's behavior should be analyzed in a differentiated way compared to earlier studies, by using a multidimensional framework for CSR. The few studies using multidimensional measures have often been applied to...

This systematic literature review contributes to the increasing interest regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) in family firms—a research field that has developed considerably in the last few years. It now provides the opportunity to take a holistic view on the relationship...