...Yee Peng Chow Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between chair–chief executive officer (CEO) demographic dissimilarities and firm internationalization. Design/methodology/approach The pooled ordinary least squares regression is used on a sample of listed firms...

... markets Family business Multilatinas Business diversification Family conglomerates (FC) Firm internationalization Multimexicanas Emerging markets multinational firms Both Xignux (sixty-sixth) and Alfa (twenty-first) are Mexican family-owned enterprises that are classified within the 100...

...Mark Lehrer; Sokol Celo Purpose This paper aims to provide a novel way of thinking about firm internationalization. We offer a stylized view of family firms as internationalizers who choose to engage in “boundary-spanning” across global product markets while engaging in “boundary-buffering...