This article analyzes, compares, and aggregates empirical findings of three individual investigations of family firms in the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Spain. The purpose is not only to identify differences and commonalities between family firms and nonfamily firms in these three countries, but also to generate a European family firm research agenda for the 1990s.
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