Article: New findings from University of Virginia describe advances in family business.

"This commentary adopts a cross-disciplinary framework to discuss possible influences of both family and ethnicity on business performance in the marketplace. Both family and ethnicity are viewed as ''upstream factors'' that may help a business gain a favorable identity with potential stakeholders," scientists writing in the journal Family Business Review report.

"Family businesses that have an ethnic background in common with customers, employees, and suppliers may receive preferential treatment. Communities may patronize a business simply because of an associated group identity," wrote I.C. Harris and colleagues, University of Virginia.

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