Motivated by the growing attention to the financing decisions of family firms, this review
brings together the two highly relevant research fields of family business and finance. This …

The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like nonfamily firms and
“professionalize.” Despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to …

The transition from private to public ownership through the process of going public (ie initial
public offering, or IPO) has attracted scholarly attention because of the governance, strategic …

This study reviews academic literature on private equity and family firms. Based on a
systematic search process, we identify 50 relevant studies published in the fields of …

Family firms commonly prefer internal funding and retention of control. Under certain
circumstances, however, equity investments from outside the family can be a relevant …

By building upon instrumental stakeholder theory, we aim to increase academic
understanding of how changes in stakeholder relations affect acquisition performance …

Are the social domains of kinship and business on balance complementary or contradictory?
Do ventures that invest heavily in both–conventionally referred to as “family firms”–bear a …

For any type of organization, performance represents the measure of outcomes, goals, and
aspirations vital to various organization stakeholders; thus performance is an important …

This study analyses the role of private equity (PE) backing in initial public offerings (IPOs)
using a dataset of 227 companies that went public on the Milan Stock Exchange between …

This article investigates the initial and long-term performance of private equity (PE) backed
initial public offerings (IPOs) in India. Using the data of IPOs listed on the Bombay stock …