Giovanna Campopiano

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how family influence on a business organization affects CSR reporting and found that family firms disseminate a greater variety of CSR reports, are less compliant with CSR standards and place emphasis on different CSR topics.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of 118 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 1961 and 2017 provides an integrative picture of the state of the art of the family firm innovation literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effects of family involvement on small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) performance by complementing agency theory with behavioral assumptions, and identify three separate dimensions of families involvement and hypothesize nonlinear, direct, and interaction effects on the performance of an SME.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the dispersion of family ownership among family members affects the performance of small-to-medium-size family firms and develop arguments pointing to the existence of a U-shaped relationship between family ownership dispersion and firm performance.

Abstract: Drawing on stewardship theory and arguments in relation to social and reputational capital, this study investigates how family involvement affects engagement in firm philanthropy in small- and medium-sized family firms. Specifically, we argue that family involvement in ownership positively influences firm philanthropy while its interaction with family involvement in management produces a negative effect. Based on a sample of 130 Italian family firms, our findings offer important implications for theory and practice and pave the way for future research in the field of philanthropy in the family firm context.