Research Areas

The main difficulty when it comes to obtaining accurate data on family businesses is that companies are not identified as such in commercial regulations. In the absence of such information, any rigorous study of family businesses requires that researchers work with business databases and establish a methodology that can be used to identify companies of this type as accurately as possible.

This project carried out for the University of Valencia has two aims: first, to establish a systematic approach to calculating the weight of family businesses in the main economic variables for the Valencian Community and make comparisons at the national level; and second, to identify the distinguishing features of family businesses and deepen our knowledge of business and family management.