Aragón Amonarriz, CristinaIturrioz Landart, CristinaMínguez, RaúlMinondo, AsierRequena Silvente, Francisco2025-02-142025-02-142025-03Aragon-Amonarriz, C., Iturrioz-Landart, C., Mínguez, R., Minondo, A., & Requena, F. (2025). Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent? Journal of Family Business Strategy, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JFBS.2024.1006491877-858510.1016/J.JFBS.2024.100649http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2309This paper examines the persistence of family firms’ international relationships. We theoretically argue how socioemotional wealth's gains and losses balancing process supported by network closure allows family firms to develop more persistent relationships with their foreign partners than their non-family counterparts. Our study empirically tests this hypothesis and confirms that export relationship survival is higher in family firms than in their non-family counterparts. We further show that this difference is magnified during economic crises or when operating in culturally distant markets.eng© 2024 The AuthorsExport survivalFamily firmsInternationalisationNetworksPersistenceSocioemotional wealthUncertain contextjournal article2025-02-14