List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures and tables -- Introduction a global revolution : the endurance of large family businesses around the world / PALOMA FERNANDEZ PEREZ AND ANDREA COLLI -- Theoretical issues and debates -- The emergence of family business studies : a historical approach to pioneering centers, scholars, and ideas / PALOMA FERNANDEZ PEREZ AND NURIA PUIG -- Family firm longevity : a balancing act between continuity and change / PRAMODITA SHARMA AND CARLO SALVATO -- Family values or crony capitalism? / HAROLD JAMES -- Risk, uncertainty and family ownership / ANDREA COLLI -- Exogenous factors: the environment -- Enterpreneurial spirit in the evolution of Swedish family businesses / HANS SJÖGREN -- Cultural forces in large family firm persistence : a model based upon the case project / VIPIN GUPTA -- Family firms and the new multinationals : evidence from Spain / MAURO F. GUILLÉN AND ESTEBAN GARCIA CANAL -- Finance and family-ness : a historical overview of assessing the economics of kinship / CHRISTOPHER KOBRAK AND PRAMUAN BUNKANWANICHA -- Endogenous determinants : inside the black box -- The women of the family business / CHRISTINE BLONDEL AND MARINA NIFOROS -- The role of values in family-owned firms / REMEI AGULLES, LUCIA CEJA AND JOSEP TÀPIES -- Managing professionalization in family business : transforming strategies for managerial succession and recruitment in family firms in the twentieth century / SUSANNA FELLMAN -- Index.