Looking Back at and Forward From: “Family Governance and Firm Performance: Agency, Stewardship, and Capabilities”

Looking back on a Family Business Review article we published in 2006, we discuss its origins, publication challenges, apparent influence, and how we might build on it today. Much of this reflection proposes how we may gain further insights into agency, stewardship, and resource perspectives by addressing promising underexplored areas relating to family enterprise. In the process we suggest topics that we hope may advance conceptualization about family firms by addressing relevant social and economic issues