Family Firms and Local Roots

Introduction.- Defining and Understanding the Family Firm.- The Spatial Dimension of Firm's Economic Activity.- Firms in Territories: the Local Roots of Family Firms.- Family Firms, Corporate Social Responsibility and Place-Based Enterprises.- Unveiling the Origins of Local Roots: A Case Study in the Chianti Classico Wine Cluster.- The Role of Local Roots on the Economic Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility of Family Firms: a Quantitative Analysis.- Conclusions

Stefano Amato is Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pisa (Italy), and has been a visiting Ph.D. candidate at Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business at the American University of Sharjah (UAE), and at the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) of Jönköping International Business School (Sweden). He has been postdoc at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. His main research interest is the performance and growth patterns of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and family businesses, focusing on the firm's interplay with territories and places.

Alessia Patuelli is a Lecturer at Northumbria University's Amsterdam Campus. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Management at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara and the University of Florence, Italy. She received her PhD in Business Administrationand Management from the University of Pisa, Italy. Her current research interests are mainly in family businesses, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development goals, using qualitative and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of management and complex networks, big data, and machine learning.