An introduction to the special volume on family business and entrepreneurship / Alex Stewart, G.T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz -- The importance of looking toward the future and building on the past: entrepreneurial risk taking and image in family firms / Esra Memili, Kimberly A. Eddleston, Thomas M. Zellweger, Franz W. Kellermanns and Tim Barnett -- Understanding exit from the founder's business in family firms / Carlo Salvato, Francesco Chirico and Pramodita Sharma -- The role of family member support in entrepreneurial entry, continuance, and exit: an autoethnography / William R. Meek -- Spousal context during the venture creation process / Sharon M. Danes, Amanda E. Matzek and James D. Werbel -- Society in embryo: family relationships as the basis for social capital in family firms / Ritch L. Sorenson, G. T. Lumpkin, Andy Yu and Keith H. Brigham -- The catholic spirit and family business: contrasting Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Southern Europe / Vipin Gupta and Nancy Levenburg -- Skeptical about family business: advancing the field in its scholarship, relevance, and academic role / Alex Stewart -- The yin and yang of kinship and business: complementary or contradictory forces? (and can we really say?) / Alex Stewart and Michael A. Hitt -- Kinship, capital, and the unsettling of assumptions: contemporary anthropology and the study of family enterprise and entrepreneurship / Danilyn Rutherford -- Kinship and gender / Harold W. Scheffler -- Sources of entrepreneurial discretion in kinship systems / Alex Stewart -- Cross campus collaboration: a law school perspective / Edward A. Fallone -- The promise of family business as an academic field in major research universities / Anne S. Miner -- Practice-based research in family business / Dean R. Fowler and Debra Houden -- Four aesthetic models for relevant research in the field of family enterprise / Judy Green -- Team approaches to entrepreneurship and family business education / Frank Hoy -- Late stage entrepreneurial activity: what students should know about family-owned and family-controlled companies / Ernesto J. Poza -- Taking stock of one decade of research: an outcomes-based framework for teaching family business / Ritch L. Sorenson, Andy Yu and Keith H. Brigham -- Family business project? So what! Eight strategies for intrapreneurial scholars / Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez -- Advancing the 3Rs of family business scholarship: rigor, relevance, reach / Pramodita Sharma.