Introduction: the business of researching family enterprises / Panikkos Z. Poutziouris, Kosmas X. Smyrnios and Sabine B. Klein
Frontiers of family business
Navigating the family business education / 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 / Joseph Astrachan and Melissa Shanker
Theorizing family businesses and business
a unified systems perspective of family firm performance / Timothy Habbershon, Mary Williams, and Ian Macmillan
The family's dynamic role within family business entrepreneurship / Ramona Heck, Sharon Danes, Margaret Fitzgerald, George Haynes, Cynthia Jasper, Holly Schrank, Kathryn Stafford, and Mary Winter
Critical leader relationships in family firms / Nigel Nicholson and sa Bjrnberg
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 / Sabine Klein, Joseph Astrachan, and Kosmas Smyrnios
Identification of different types of private family firms / Paul Westhead and Carole Howorth
From vision to variables: a scorecard to continue the professionalisation 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 Garca-Çlvarez and Jordi Lpez-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
Writing, implementing and maintaining family protocols / Miguel Angel Gallo and Salvatore Tomaselli
Generic models for family business boards of directors / Joseph Astrachan, Andrew Keyt, Suzanne Lane, and Kristi McMillan
Effective knowledge transfer in family firms / Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodrguez and Josep Tpies
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, Joe Astrachan, and Gaia Marchisio
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 Huang, Harold 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 Poutziouris
Ownership structure and firm performance: evidence from Spanish family firms / Susana Menndez-Requejo
Family ownership, corporate governance and firm value: evidence from the Spanish market / Mara Sacristn Navarro and Silvia Gmez Ansn
Epilogue: theory building and the survival of family firms: four promising research directions / Shaker Zahra, Sabine B. Klein and Joseph H. Astrachan.
Handbook of research on family business. ISBN 9781845424107. Published by Edward Elgar in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.