Family and non-family firms' financial structure. The effects of financial crisis

The monograph “Family and non-family firms' financial structure. The effects of financial crisis: blessing or curse?” deals with the issue of firms’ financial structure. It introduces the debate, moving from the difficult in finding a balance between debts and equity and presenting the actual situation of Italian and European firms. Then, it offers an overview of the main financial theories. Subsequently, it deals with the financial structure issue in family business context, by presenting the state of art on the theme and delineating peculiar problematics faced by family firms. Finally, it provides an empirical investigation about the effect of financial crisis on family and non-family firms’ capital structure, offering a wide discussion of the results and useful implication for theory and practice. The monograph “Family and non-family firms' financial structure. The effects of financial crisis: blessing or curse?”is aimed at family business and financial scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners.