<P>Introduction</P><P><EM>Rodrigo Basco, Roger Stough and Lech Suwala</EM> </P><P> </P><P>1. Spatial Familiness and Family Spatialities-Searching for Fertile Ground between Family Business Studies and Regional Studies </P><P><EM>Rodrigo Basco and Lech Suwala</EM></P><P> </P><P></P><P>2. A Regional Perspective of Family Firms: Evidence from Europe</P><P><EM>Rodrigo Basco and Fernanda Ricotta</EM> </P><P> </P><P></P><P>3. Family-Managed Firms and Productivity: Evidence from Urban Areas </P><P><EM>Rodrigo Basco, Stefano Amato, Silvia Gómez-Ansón and Andrea Calabrò</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>4. Family Co-occurrence and Firm Productivity</P><P><EM>Evans Korang Adjei and Rikard Eriksson</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>5. Developing Digital Innovation in Family Firms: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts</P><P><EM>Stefano Amato, Alessia Patuelli and Nicola Lattanzi</EM></P><P> </P><P></P><P>6. Family Firms and their Regional Ties: A Bond Made for Future? </P><P><EM>Regina Lenz</EM> </P><P> </P><P>7. Urbanization Economies, Proximity Dimensions and Productivity: A Family Firm Perspective</P><P><EM>Stefano Amato, Mikaela Backman and Juhana Peltonen</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>8. Family Firms and Corporate Responsibility in Peripheral Regions</P><P><EM>Martin Graffenberger and Franziska Görmar</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>9. Comparing Family and Non-Family Firms' Strategic Effects on Regional Development Evidence from Kenya</P><P><EM>Murithi William and Woldesenbet Beta Kassa</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>10. Family Firms and Regional Entrepreneurship: The European Evidence</P><P><EM>Riccardo Cappelli, Marco Cucculelli and Valentina Peruzzi</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P></P><P>11. Family Firms and Regional Development: Evidence from China</P><P><EM>Xinrui Zhang, Junsheng Dou and Hanqing "Chevy" Fang</EM></P><P><EM></EM> </P><P>12. Family Firms and Corporate Spatial Responsibilities in Germany -- Implication on Urban and Regional Planning and Management</P><P><EM>Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala</EM> </P><P> </P><P></P><P>13. Place-Based Approach and Family Firms: The Tatula Programme in Lithuania </P><P><EM>Rodrigo Basco and Inga Bartkevičiūtė</P></EM>

"This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these factors have often been neglected in family business and regional studies. Taking this research gap into account, the book aims to deepen our understanding of the role family firms play in the regional economy. In particular, it explores two seldom studied questions. Firstly, what role do family firms play in regional development? Secondly, how do formal and informal regional contexts shape family firm operations and performance? This book presents a model of "regional familiness" and uses themes such as productivity, networks and competitiveness to shed new light on family businesses. Moreover, it evaluates the juxtaposition and cross-fertilisation between family business and regional studies to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas, theories, and research methods between the two fields. Bringing together leading experts in entrepreneurship, regional economics and economic geography, this book will be valuable reading for advanced students, researchers and policymakers interested in family firms, regional studies and economic geography"-- Provided by publisher.

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