The Growth Behavior of Family Firms Theoretical and Empirical Elaborations /

• Main Author: Geyer, Annika (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Familienunternehmen und KMU
• Subjects: Business.; Entrepreneurship.; Leadership.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

Annika Geyer aims to advance the current understanding of variations in family businesses' growth performance and to explain their potential origins. She focuses on the respective impact of the set of relevant background factors (stemming from top executives' individual characteristics as...

Table of Contents:

• Variations in Strategic Choices Concerning Firm Growth: A Conceptual Framework and its Application to the Context of Family Businesses
• The Influence of Executives' Membership in the FB Owner-Family on Firm Growth
• Family Decision Makers in FBs, their Growth Intentions and Actual Firm Growth: The Influence of Different Levels of Family and Personal Involvement in the Firm.