The Impact of Governance Structure on the Performance of Small Family and Nonfamily Firms: The Moderating Role of Firm Age

Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, Department of Management and Information Systems, Mississippi State University, USA, vs658@msstate.edu , Hanqing “Chevy” Fang, Department of Business and Information Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, fangha@mst.edu , Esra Memili, Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality & Tourism, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA, e_memili@uncg.edu , James J. Chrisman, Center of Family Enterprise Research, Department of Management and Information Systems, Mississippi State University, USA, jchrisman@business.msstate.edu