Handbook of research on family business

Introduction : the business of researching family enterprises / Panikkos Zata Poutziouris, Kosmas X. Smyrnios and Sabine B. Klein

Frontiers of family business

Navigating the family business education maze / Frank Hoy and Pramodita Sharma

An overview of the field of family business studies : current status and directions for the future / Pramodita Sharma

Family businesses' contribution to the US economy : a closer look / Joseph H. Astrachan and Melissa Carey Shanker

Theorizing family businesses and business families

A unified systems perspective of family firm performance / Timothy Habbershon, Mary Williams, and Ian C. MacMillan

The family's dynamic role within family business entrepreneurship / Ramona K. Z. Heck, Sharon M. Danes, Margaret A. Fitzgerald, George W. Haynes, Cynthia R. Jasper, Holly L. Schrank, Kathryn Stafford, and Mary Winter

Critical leader relationships in family firms / Nigel Nicholson and Åsa Björnberg

Business family as a team : underlying force for sustained competitive advantage / Lorraine M. Uhlaner

Internal factors of family business performance : an integrated theoretical model / Alberto Gimeno Sandig, Gaston J. Labadie, Willem Saris, and Xavier Mendoza Mayordomo

Family business research : metrics and methodologies

The F-PEC scale of family influence : a proposal for solving the family business definition problem / Joseph H. Astrachan, Sabine Klein and Kosmas X. Smyrnios

Identification of different types of private family firms / Paul Westhead and Carole Howorth

From vision to variables : a scorecard to continue the professionalization of a family firm / Ken Moores and Justin Craig

Working with families in business : a content validity study of the Aspen Family business inventory / Sandra L. Moncrief-Stuart, Joe Paul, and Justin Craig

Family business themes in focus

Founder-successor's transition : a model of coherent value transmission paths / Ercilia Garcia-Álvarez and Jordi López-Sintas

Understanding strategizing in the family business context / Annika Hall, Leif Melin, and Mattias Nordqvist

The professionalization of family firms : theory and practice / Lucrezia Songini

Formulating, implementing and maintaining family protocols / Miguel Angel Gallo and Salvatore Tomaselli

Generic models for family business boards of directors / Joseph H. Astrachan, Andrew Keyt, Suzanne Lane, and Kristi McMillan

Effective knowledge transfer in family firms / Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez and Josep Tàpies

Feuding families : the management of conflict in family firms / Franz W. Kellermanns and Kimberly A. Eddleston

Family business succession

Lost in time : intergenerational succession, change and failure in family business / Danny Miller, Lloyd Steier, and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

Towards a business family dynasty : a lifelong, continuing process / Johan Lambrecht and Rik Donckels

Using the strategic planning process as a next-generation training tool in family business / Pietro Mazzola, Gaia Marchisio and Joseph H. Astrachan

An integrated framework for testing the success of the family business succession process according to gender specificity / Vassilios D. Pyromalis, George S. Vozikis, Theodoros A. Kalkanteras, Michaela E. Rogdaki and George P. Sigalas

Family business performance : global and trans-cultural issues

Internationalization of family business through strategic alliances : an exploratory study / Kristin Cappuyns

Family and cultural forces : shaping entrepreneurship and SME development in China / David Pistrui, Wilfred V. Huang, Harold P. Welsch, and Zhao Jing

Board of directors in Italian public family-controlled companies / Guido Corbetta and Alessandro Minichilli

Family-firm relations in Italian SMEs: ownership and governance issues in a double-fold theoretical perspective / Luca Gnan and Daniela Montemerlo

Longevity of Japanese firms / Toshio Goto

Family business finance

Family firms and financial behaviour : how family shareholder preferences influence firms' financing / Myriam Lyagoubi

The structure and performance of the UK family business PLC economy / Panikkos Zata Poutziouris

Ownership structure and firm performance : evidence from Spanish family firms / Susana Menéndez-Requejo

Family ownership, corporate governance and firm value : evidence from the Spanish market / Maria Sacristán Navarro and Silvia Gmez Ansón

Epilogue : theory building and the survival of family firms : four promising research directions / Shaker A. Zahra, Sabine B. Klein and Joseph H. Astrachan.