Family Business Innovation And Growth: A Csv Driven Perspective

The paper addresses the role of familiness as a strategic determinant to enhance family businesses (FBs) capability in boosting business innovation and value creation processes. More specifically, the paper presents a FBs’ growth and innovation interpretative model based on distinctive familiness generated by the specific family-business dynamic balance processes and enhancing corporate shared value processes. The paper is articulated into three parts: the first one briefly presents the key dimensions of FBs in terms of ownership, management and familiness; the second part deepens the role of familiness as strategic determinant of FBs’ success and shared value creation. The last part reports the main evidences from the case study; the proposed research frame is in fact confirmed and enriched by the analysis of a case study referred to an Italian small FB working in the ICT sector, named NRGSYS.