FAMILY FIRMS: WELL-BEING OF EMPLOYEES AND ENTREPRENEURS. FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND WORK-RELATED STRESS

The general aim of the present dissertation is to gain more insight into the phenomenon of family firms, the well-being of employees and entrepreneurs and the role of family relationships at work. These objectives have been pursued by means of three empirical studies presented in the three chapters respectively: Chapter 1 focuses on comparing the employees of family and non-family firms to identify clearly the distinctive features. Chapter 2 focuses on the Job demands-resources model and on the role of the emotional experience as an important variable in attempt to understand whether there is a different pattern of relationships in the model depending on the fact that the people work with or without kin. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of work and family demands and resources on well-being of entrepreneurs, in terms of need for recovery after work, examining the differences between entrepreneurs of family and non-family firms.