This study examines family firms' propensity to protect their intellectual property through patents. Building on the mixed gamble logic of the behavioral agency model, we theorize that family ownership has a U-shaped relationship with firm propensity to patent. Specifically, we argue that family...

1. Introducing theoretical perspectives on family business / Mattias Nordqvist ... [et al.] -- 2. Organisational ecology and the family business / Giuseppe Criaco -- 3. Behavioural theory and the family business / Ambra Mazzelli -- 4. Agency theory and the family business / Andreas Kallmuenzer...