Entrepreneurial management and governance in family firms: an introduction.

Many organizations, ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups to large, multi-business and multi-national enterprises, exhibit a family dimension. Although there is a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of evidence that this familial dimension is pervasive in organizing economic activities, it remains understudied. The articles in this special issue further our understanding of family businesses and in what way they might be usefully managed and organized at operational and policy horizontals They examine important topics--management succession, agency require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones in family versus non-family firms, the consequences of culture, and family elites in rent-seeking societies--and improve our understanding of the part of family in entrepreneurial wealth creation at the one and the other firm and societal ...