Chapter 7 considers the implications of the book's analysis for the study of foreign aid effectiveness as well as policy-making. It establishes a link between political economies and the different kinds of outcomes that donor officials prioritize. Donor governments that outsource aid delivery in countries with bad governance may achieve greater success in providing immediate relief to the poor through easily implementable health interventions than donor governments that continue to engage in institution building in collaboration with the state. However, outsourcing in foreign aid delivery might hamper or even undermine donor efforts to build up a state capable of managing its own development – an objective that ranks high for donor governments who prefer a tactic of greater engagement with the government in the developing country. The book further suggests that the proliferation of neoliberal governance beliefs puts increasing pressure on statist regimes to change their metric, a process, which may come at the expense of efforts to strengthen the capacity of the state abroad. Finally, my book opens up future avenues for research.

This chapter pulls together the discussions in the monograph and summarizes and categorizes all the research propositions developed in the previous chapters. It then demarcates the charateristics that are unique to family firms and those that are more likely in family firms in making such firms have a greater propensity to undertake patient long-term investments in developing proactive environmental strategies. It then deveops a framework showing how appying the family business lens changes what we know about drivers and influences of proactive environmental strategy and how non-family firms can learn from family firms to undertake patient capital investments in addressing sustainability challenges. The chapter concludes with avenues for future research and measure development, for business education, and for public policy.