Leadership and the Process of Internationalization of Family Businesses: A Systematic Review of Literature

The leaders of family businesses have a great impact on the decision-making that the company decides to make, so the leadership presented by these managers impacts the company’s processes, one of which is the internationalization of companies. The aim of this research is to discover how leadership influences the process of internationalization of family businesses, and in order to achieve this objective, we conducted a systematic review of the literature, using the Web of Science database. The 96 articles selected in the database were analyzed with the VOSviewer software, which shows the dispersion of the theme of leadership and internationalization of family businesses. This research contributes to the construction of an agenda on the process of internationalization of family businesses, and how this is influenced by leadership.