Family Business and Regional Development

Rodrigo Basco is Associate Professor and Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.Roger Stough was the Northern Virginia Endowed Chair and Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, USA.Lech Suwala is Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

• Introduction 1. Spatial Familiness and Family Spatialities—Searching for Fertile Ground between Family Business Studies and Regional Studies 2. A Regional Perspective of Family Firms: Evidence from Europe 3. Family-Managed Firms and Productivity: Evidence from Urban Areas 4. Family Co-occurrence and Firm Productivity 5. Developing Digital Innovation in Family Firms: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts 6. Family Firms and their Regional Ties: A Bond Made for Future? 7. Urbanization Economies, Proximity Dimensions and Productivity: A Family Firm Perspective 8. Family Firms and Corporate Responsibility in Peripheral Regions 9. Comparing Family and Non-Family Firms’ Strategic Effects on Regional Development Evidence from Kenya 10. Family Firms and Regional Entrepreneurship: The European Evidence 11. Family Firms and Regional Development: Evidence from China 12. Family Firms and Corporate Spatial Responsibilities in Germany – Implication on Urban and Regional Planning and Management 13. Place-Based Approach and Family Firms: The Tatula Programme in Lithuania