“…Most founders of a family business want to maintain family control and protect its legacy (e.g., Astrachan et al, 2002;Duran et al, 2016;Jaskiewicz et al, 2015;Salvato et al, 2012;Sciascia et al, 2014). This aspiration may sometimes be due to the propensity towards nepotism in family businesses (Khanin et al, 2019), although some research (Burkart et al, 2003;Lee et al, 2003) alludes to more rational reasons in a number of specific situations: for example, cases where the current legal system provides low protection for shareholders such that the separation between ownership and control would be inefficient; the family gains reputational and non-pecuniary benefits if it maintains leadership within the family; or when companies' competitive advantages are based on idiosyncratic knowledge that can only be efficiently transferred to very reliable family or close non-family members. Founders of the family business tend to have an entrepreneurial character, evident when they recognize and exploit the opportunity to create a business (Aldrich & Cliff, 2003); however, over time, they often become more conservative and lose that entrepreneurial orientation (Dertouzos et al, 1989;Röd, 2016;Salvato, 2004;Zahra et al, 2004).…”