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Purpose: Family businesses are a fundamental pillar in global economies, whose business strategies have been changing over the years. However, the characteristics of family businesses differ from the others since the leaders' main objective is to build and ensure the intergenerational legacy in the long run (Rahimian et al., 2020; Alsos et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2016). In that regard, resilience and responsiveness in terms of problem-solving make family businesses highly profitable and attractive living organisms (Reuber, 2016; Vijay et al., 2012), with their strategies being a fundamental pillar for their survival. Thus, the objective of this study is to carry out a systematic literature review on the business strategies adopted by family businesses. Methodology: Starting from the study’s main objective, the realization of this systematic review counted with a sample of 540 studies collected from the Web of Science through the keywords "strategy" and "family business". It adopted the method applied by the authors Brizola et al. (2016) and Cater et al. (2008), which is based on four steps: 1) sample identification; 2) screening; 3) eligibility; and 4) inclusion. Results: From the systematic literature review four clusters were identified: 1) Organizational performance; 2) Marketing and strategies; 3) Business culture and 4) Innovation and development. That being said, the effectiveness of the business strategies of family firms is highly dependent on these four factors. Furthermore, relevant differences in family business management strategies are identified in value creation, communication, entrepreneurial tendency, and long-term stability and performance. A new proposal for a framework for strategies in family businesses is made. A new framework proposal for strategies in family firms is made. In this sense, this study combines the factors that condition the business strategies of family businesses, establishing a correlation between them, assisting the organizational world and researchers in future research. Research limitations: Despite the theoretical contributions of this study, it is not exempt from research limitations. Therefore, the search was carried out only in the Web of Science database, but other databases such as Scopus, ABI/INFORM, b-on, or EBSCO may be considered. Other keywords may be included to make the study more comprehensive. Originality: This study analyses and combines the strategies of family businesses, making a new framework proposal, which can contribute to the long-term stability of family businesses. It also provides suggestions to managers to improve the performance of family businesses. This paper also allows the development of the literature on strategies in family businesses. We also identify and synthesize future lines of research on the subject under study, which can be the starting point for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dynamic Learning Capabilities (DLC) are the main generator of competitive advantage influencing the dynamics of organizations. The main objective of the study is to understand, based on the logistics managers of health organizations, how the DLC add efficiency to health organizations, seeking organizational improvement. A qualitative approach was chosen, using interview and documentary analysis, based on four studies of public and private health organizations. The results suggest that in the different organizations (public, social, private) CDA add efficiency to health organizations in a very dispar way. The study intends to understand how the DLC add efficiency to health organizations. The results contribute to the current literature on the subject, as well as a practical contribution to health organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyse whether entrepreneur location decisions differ across industries and identify the factors determining the choice of location between rural and urban environments. We use the three classes of location decisions based on Hayter's (1997) influential approach: behavioural, institutional and neoclassical as well as a sample of thousand Portuguese firms. A multivariate analysis allows the identification of five dimensions of location. Our results show that that the location decisions depend on the sector of activity, type of area (urban vs. rural) and the characteristics of the entrepreneur. We find that companies engaged in knowledge intensive business services prefer to locate in urban areas. From an institutional point of view, firms prefer to locate in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research seeks to investigate just how location impacts on the innovation capacities of knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms. Does locating near the main urban centres influence the capacity of these firms to leverage both innovation and financial performance? In this article, we find that location does hold an influence over KIBS firm innovation capacities and it is therefore correspondingly relevant to take firm location into consideration and thereby contributing to the literature on innovation. The results of the econometric models estimated for a sample of 442 KIBS demonstrate location is a variable influencing firm innovation capacity. The closer the location to the larger urban centres, the greater the innovative capacity and financial performance of this firm type. Different levels and types of innovation were also identified by firm location. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the importance of two types of innovation and the impact of innovation capacities on financial performance among small and medium sized enterprises (SME) on either side of the border between two countries (Portugal and Spain). Based upon a sample of 61 companies, the results show significant differences in terms of both the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in these two countries. The introduction of products into new markets only proved significant at Spanish companies whilst innovations in both products and processes are significant in both sets of Iberian companies. Furthermore, we were able to classify the companies into two distinct clusters and found that medium sized enterprises engage in the greatest innovation levels and record higher levels of business turnover [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of entrepreneurship to regional development are approaches able to explain both its incidence, especially in the case of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS), and the respective factors driving an entrepreneur's decisions in choosing the company location. This study aims to analyse KIBS entrepreneurship through identifying the factors behind companies locating in rural/urban areas in accordance with the entrepreneur's profile. Furthermore, we identify regional factors driving and inhibiting this choice of location. The results show that urban KIBS are influenced by economic conditions and local infrastructures and rural KIBS are influenced by individual motivations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]