Currently, between the two ownership structures (DO: Dispersed Ownership Structure, and CO: Concentrated Ownership Structure), there is a third type of shareholder structure in France: the Controlling-Minority Structure: CMS), in which minority shareholders control their business with a small...

During the last decade, Lebanese family firms have been experiencing many challenges related to two waves of political crises. The internal wave was after the assassination of PM Rafic Hariri and dated from 2005 till 2010. The external one began in 2011 due to the tension of the Syrian civil...

A consideration of emotion has been traditionally neglected in the context of family business. In this study, the Lebanese family businesses were explored to examine all the dimensions and the specificity of the emotional intelligence (EI) of teams’ leaders. Multiple regressions were applied...

This study investigates the financial dimensions of family and non-family SMEs in Lebanon from 2005 to 2016. Based on 81 family SMEs and 45 non-family SMEs, the results reveal that family SMEs have outperform the non-family SMEs during economical and political instability period. In addition,...

This study investigates the success factors that can influence the performance and the continuity of the French and Lebanese family firms. Based on the literature review, the performance of the family firms was found to be linked to effective success keys like the succession planning, networking...