26A Review of the Academic Literature on Family Business in Spanish

Introduction The eld of family business studies has been of interest to management scholars and writers as a topic of academic inquiry since the 1960s and has been growing over the last decades (Chrisman et al. 2008; Benavides-Velasco, Quintana-García, and Guzmán-Parra 2013). However, the literature on this eld is not as extensive as in other management areas (Bird et al. 2002); and it has a clear tendency towards research from Anglo-Saxon countries and the use of the English language as its primary means of publication.