Cristina Cruz is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Istituto de Impresa (Spain) and Director of the IE Center for Families in Business. Her research interests are related to organizations in which a family group is present and has an influence in strategic decision making, and how family firms preserve their socioemotional wealth. She serves as associate editor for FBR and she is member of the Editorial Review Boards of ET&P. She published in AMJ, ASQ, JBV, ETP, FBR, SBE, EAR, HRM, JSBM, and JFBS.