Alfredo De Massis, D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, IMD Business School, Switzerland and Lancaster University, UK, Pramodita Sharma, Schlesinger-Grossman Endowed Chair in Family Business, Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont, US, Jess H. Chua, Professor of Finance and Family Business Governance, University of Calgary, Canada and Zhejiang University, China, and James J. Chrisman, Professor of Management, Mississippi State University, US and Research Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada