Family firms have become a topic of the utmost interest both for academic researchers
and policy makers. Researchers have started to investigate the distinctiveness of family
firms, their functioning and efficiency outcomes. Policy makers have been reacting to the
problems of economic development arising from the domination of family-owned and
family-controlled firms in many economies.
This book provides an analytical study of control, ownership and
succession in family firms.
It includes nine chapters written by scholars from different countries, namely
the United States of America, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland and
Nigeria.
“To better grasp the relationship between economic growth, firm behaviour, and policy,
we need a handle on the complexity of family firms. This book is therefore to be welcomed.
Its rigorous and strongly empirical essays add valuable knowledge to our understanding of
the most distinctive aspects of family firms: their efficiency, funding and control.
Admirably it achieves this by integrating research from both economics and management.”
Prof. Wim Naudé,
WIDER, United Nations University, Helsinki – Finland
154 pages, Paperback