Roberto Barontini

1 INTRODUCTION Scholars have paid considerable attention to green operational practices (Berrone et al., 2010). They are activities that firms undertake with the aim of reducing their environmental footprint (Ortiz-de-Mandojana & Bansal, 2016) and are becoming increasingly important as a way to contribute to mitigating climate change (UNDESA, 2013).

Financial returns and revenue growth are important aspects of firm success (Davidson et al., 2006). The former has been well-studied by scholars of family business in dozens of articles and several meta-analyses (Chen et al., 2014; Miller et al., 2007; Wagner et al., 2015). However, the literature on family firm growth is far less developed.