Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to design a methodology to identify territory-linked family business groups (TLFBGs) in order to overcome the methodological challenges and ease studies about family business groups' (FBGs) impact on territories.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper applied an algorithm to a data set of firms located in Gipuzkoa that were registered in the SABI database in 2018.

Findings

The paper defined a new construct, TLFBGs, and proposed a methodology that automatized the identification of TLFBGs by a seven-stage algorithm that was intended to be applicable to any firm-level economic and financial data set, including all registered firms and not only listed firms.

Practical implications

TLFBGs unveil the real relevance that family businesses have in the territorial development, encouraging the political support to family business. Additionally, the methodology provided allows understanding growth processes of family business.

Originality/value

The paper defines a new construct, TLFBGs, that highlights both the underexplored links existing between family and territory and between family and business groups, providing the process and criteria to capture it. The paper opens up large-scale empirical research on the social (and economic) influence of TLFBGs in territorial development.

中文翻译：

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识别与地域相关的家族企业集团：方法论建议

目的

本文的目的是设计一种方法来识别与领土相关的家族企业集团（TLFBG），以克服方法上的挑战并简化有关家族企业集团（FBG）对领土影响的研究。

设计/方法/方法

该论文将算法应用于 2018 年在 SABI 数据库中注册的 Gipuzkoa 公司的数据集。

发现

该论文定义了一个新的结构，TLFBGs，并提出了一种方法，通过七阶段算法自动识别 TLFBGs，该算法旨在适用于任何公司级别的经济和金融数据集，包括所有注册公司，而不仅仅是上市公司公司。

实际影响

TLFBGs揭示了家族企业在领土发展中的真正相关性，鼓励对家族企业的政治支持。此外，所提供的方法有助于了解家族企业的成长过程。

原创性/价值

该文件定义了一个新的结构，即 TLFBGs，它突出了家庭与领土之间以及家庭与企业集团之间存在的未充分探索的联系，并提供了捕获它的过程和标准。该论文开启了关于 TFBG 在领土发展中的社会（和经济）影响的大规模实证研究。