...José María Fernández-Yáñez; Beatriz Forés; Andreas Kallmuenzer Purpose Family firm legacy has recently emerged as an important construct in management research, reflecting families' aspirations to preserve and transmit symbolic, social, material and entrepreneurial meanings across generations...

...Lan Thi Mai Nguyen; Trang Khanh Tran; Minh Hoang Tran Purpose This study aims to investigate how the migrant background of family owners influences the financing decisions of family firms in three Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore...

...Lucie Denis; Hanane Beddi; Marc Valax Purpose Accelerationist thinking needs an organizational lens to progress. This paper explores how family firms cope with growth pressure. Design/methodology/approach Five case studies of French family multinationals, including semi-directive interviews...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Family firms Succession planning Italy Strategic management Governance Change management Non‐family CEO Managed succession Business dream Family business Agency‐driven behaviour Stewardship‐driven behaviour A number of scholars have noted...

...Domingo Ribeiro‐Soriano; David Urbano; Nuria Toledano; David Urbano; Marc Bernadich Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse in‐depth collaboration as a process that emerges from interactions among individuals in order to develop entrepreneurial actions within established family firms...

.... Members of the first and second generations, who nowadays run the business, were interviewed. They told many stories, which can be presented in the following text. Maria Jose Parada can be contacted at: mariajose.parada@esade.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Family firms...

... and a situation that needs to be analyzed from inside the organizations by listening to the actors in order to really understand what is going on. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Organizational change Succession planning Process management Family firms France Organization change research and theory...

... would have ready‐made solutions for the problems. If he/she acted this way, he/she would confiscate the actors’ speech. Any solution would be an illusory one. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Succession planning Family firms Intervention Many firms are directed by an owner‐top manager. He/she...

...‐Toyota‐United Auto Workers joint venture car plant in Fremont, CA, is an example of this model (Adler, 1992; Wakabayshi and Graen, 1991). This transference of management technology is routinized as it is in the family‐owned business also. China Family firms Organizational theory One...