NRG Metrics - Family Firms

NRG Metrics Family business dataset provides information on the family's involvement in companies based in a large number of countries. It provides information on whether the company's CEO/Chairman is a family member and who specifically the person is (i.e., founder or descendant). Additionally, it provides information on the number of family members sitting on the board,  It also provides information on the equity stake retained by the founding family as well as whether the family is the largest shareholder in the company. Finally, it classifies companies as family or non-family firms using 19 different definitions of family businesses used in the literature.