Handbook of research on family business Introduction : the business of researching family enterprises Panikkos Zata Poutziouris Kosmas X. Smyrnios and Sabine B. Klein Frontiers of family business Navigating the family business education maze 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 : a closer look Joseph H. Astrachan and Melissa Carey Shanker Theorizing family businesses and business families A unified systems perspective of family firm performance Timothy Habbershon Mary Williams and Ian C. MacMillan The familys dynamic role within family business entrepreneurship Ramona K. Z. Heck Sharon M. Danes Margaret A. Fitzgerald George W. Haynes Cynthia R. Jasper Holly L. Schrank Kathryn Stafford and Mary Winter Critical leader relationships in family firms Nigel Nicholson and Åsa Björnberg 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 Joseph H. Astrachan Sabine Klein and Kosmas X. Smyrnios Identification of different types of private family firms Paul Westhead and Carole Howorth From vision to variables : a scorecard to continue the professionalization 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 successors transition : a model of coherent value transmission paths Ercilia Garcia Álvarez and Jordi López 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 Formulating implementing and maintaining family protocols Miguel Angel Gallo and Salvatore Tomaselli Generic models for family business boards of directors Joseph H. Astrachan Andrew Keyt Suzanne Lane and Kristi McMillan Effective knowledge transfer in family firms Rosa Nelly Trevinyo Rodriguez and Josep Tàpies 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 Gaia Marchisio and Joseph H. Astrachan 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 V. Huang Harold P. 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 Zata Poutziouris Ownership structure and firm performance : evidence from Spanish family firms Susana Menéndez Requejo Family ownership corporate governance and firm value : evidence from the Spanish market Maria Sacristán Navarro and Silvia Gmez Ansón Epilogue : theory building and the survival of family firms : four promising research directions Shaker A. Zahra Sabine B. Klein and Joseph H. Astrachan The Handbook of Research on Family Business provides a comprehensive first port of call for those wishing to survey progress in the theory and practice of family business research. In response to the extensive growth of family business as a topic of academic inquiry the principal objective of the Handbook is to provide an authoritative and scholarly overview of current thinking in this multidisciplinary field