Family and Non-Family Businesses in Iran: Coupling among Innovation, Internationalization and Growth-Expectation

Gallo and Sveen, in 1991, specified problems of whether family businesses can take advantage factors facilitating internationalization. We compare non-family innovation, export, growth-expectation, consider how outcomes are aligned, with a coupling that may be loose, synergy benefits the business. This raises further issue, is governance business affecting not only each but also their coupling. A representative sample 530 Iranian was surveyed 2018 for Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Innovation, growth-expectation found to lower businesses. Coupling between innovation export looser - Findings suggest among performance feasibly tightened, thereby reinforcing performance. The findings contribute understanding endeavors as problematized by Sveen.