Is There a Link Between the Family Background and the Entrepreneurial Behaviour of a Family Business?
” Guest Editors: Matti Koiranen, University of Jyvskyl, Finland Stefan Mrk, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ilse Matser, Utrecht University, The Netherlands This special issue seeks manuscripts that tackle the question: What is the current state of the art in entrepreneurship and family business research? Since Landsberg (1982) revealed that there are more benefits for a company than having just one entrepreneur, an increasing number of researchers have tried to integrate the family concept into their work. The issue should be of interest to researchers with specialisation in the fields of family business and entrepreneurship, or related fields. The internationalisation process of family business research is an emerging research area. An increasing number of institutions worldwide are examining the significance of disseminating their research in order to look at the peculiarities of family businesses. In our opinion, it is necessary to facilitate knowledge transfer between researchers
