Keywords
PYMES familiares; capacidades; recursos; empresas familiares; negocios familiares
Abstract
Family-owned SMEs are of great importance to the economy of countries. For this reason, in recent years more and more studies on this type of company have emerged. The resources and capabilities of family SMEs are valuable and rare resources to find in other types of companies. These resources are also difficult to imitate by the competition. If family SMEs know how to take advantage of them, they can be facilitators of good performance as well as financial, non-financial, and organizational effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction. This study is a bibliometric review of existing research on the resources and capabilities of family SMEs that has been published in the SCOPUS database. The findings shows that, despite the fact that these small and medium-sized enterprises boost economies, research on the capabilities and resources of family SMEs is still scarce, concentrated in few authors and developed from a limited number of countries, and highlights opportunities to study characteristics of image, age, board of directors and CEO, and human resource management.
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