Through its rapid growth during the past decade, family business research has reached its adolescence as a field of study and family business scholars now regularly contribute interesting and though provoking work to top-tier management, entrepreneurship and finance journals. In this review...

Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan's largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese...

The prevalence of ownership concentration in Asian firms presents a challenge to the influential agency theory-based understanding of the role of corporate boards. In this paper we develop and test hypotheses about board attributes and firm performance that reflect Asian institutional...