As explained by the editors (both of the Cracow U. of Economics, Poland) in their introduction, this collection of nine papers focuses on two limited but interrelated theoretical questions
concerning the study of family firms in economics and management sciences: family firm efficiency and family firm succession decisions. Family firm efficiency is analyzed as an effect of
ownership identity on firm size and stock market performance as well as investment and financing choices and succession processes are considered in terms of transforming ownership and
organizational structure of a company, as well as in relation to the tensions between the growth orientation of a firm and family owners’ willingness to maintain control over the firm.
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