In this context, a family business is considered to be a company in which the person who founded it or acquired its share capital owns at least 25% of the voting rights, whether he, she, her relatives or her descendants.

The study, recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics, has determined that the predisposition of family businesses to promote ecological policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions is even greater when family members are involved in the governance system of the corporation through their participation in the Board of Directors.