“…In this regard, family firms exhibit the characteristics and attitudes of trust, friendship, respect, and reciprocity, developed through a history of interactions; these are engendered in the family group and decrease opportunistic behaviour (e.g. Coleman, 1988;Salvato and Melin, 2008;Sorenson and Bierman, 2009). Third, in terms of the cognitive dimension, the presence of family members with similar cultural and goal-setting objectives provides the advantage of facilitating the exchange of resources, and therefore enhances performance, because all parties see the potential value of the integration and combination of their resources (Chirico and Salvato, 2008;.…”