Introduction.- Introductory Issues: Context and Uniqueness of Family Businesses.- Content and Uniqueness of Transition Economies.- Different Features of Transition Economies - Institutions Matter.- Management, Succession and Financial Issues: To Be or Not to Be in a Family Business: The Case of Eight Countries in South-Eastern European Region.- Management in Practices in Bulgarian Family and Non-Family SMEs: Exploring "Real" Differences.- Obstacles and Opportunities for Development of Family Businesses: Experiences from Moldova.- Successors' Innovativeness as a Crucial Succession Challenge of Family Businesses in Transition Economies: The Case of Slovenia.- Family Business Succession Risks: The Croatian Context.- The Succession Issues in Family Firms: Insights from Macedonia.- Attributes of Financial Management of Family Companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.- Ownership Structure, Cash Constraints and Investment Behaviour in Russian Family Firms.- Internationalization and Other Issues: Family Businesses Motives for Internationalisation: Evidence from Serbia.- Entering in New Markets: Strategies for Internationalization of Family Business.- Family Business in Sport Organizations: Western Experiences as Lessons for Transitional Economies.- Family Businesses in the Trade Sector: An Examination of a Case Study from Kosovo.