Journal of Family Business Management: Volume 12 Issue 1

Impact of wise leadership, workplace friendships on open innovation in family firms: a developing country perspective

Amir A. Abdulmuhsin, Ali Tarhini

This study draws upon the hybrid approach of the resource-based view and social capital theory, and aims to develop and empirically validate a model that examines the relationship…

Internal and external successions in family firms: a meta-analysis

Nadine Schlömer-Laufen, Andreas Rauch

Despite much progress in the field of family business research, there is still no unequivocal quantitative evidence on how many family businesses are generally transferred within…

How do Spanish unlisted family firms rebalance their capital structures?

Zélia Serrasqueiro, Fernanda Matias, Julio Diéguez-Soto

This paper seeks to analyze the family firm's capital structure decisions, focusing on the speed of adjustment (SOA) as well as on the effect of distance from the target capital…

Strategic management in family business. The missing concept of the familiness learning mechanism

Ismael Barros-Contreras, Rodrigo Basco, Natalia Martín-Cruz, Juan Hernangómez

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the roots of family firms' competitive advantages by defining and testing the familiness learning…

Human resource management adaptation among family firms operating in Western Australia: an exploratory study

Michelle O'Shea, Abel Duarte Alonso

Interviews were conducted with eight family businesses involved in several industries in Western Australia.

Determinants of family entrepreneurship in the beekeeping sector

Kaltrinë Bislimi

Kosovo is a transition country, and family businesses are seen as the best way to ensure its existence. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of beekeeping…

Identifying territory-linked family business groups: a methodological proposal

Aitor Garmendia-Lazcano, Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Cristina Aragon-Amonarriz

The purpose of this paper is to design a methodology to identify territory-linked family business groups (TLFBGs) in order to overcome the methodological challenges and ease…

Are non-blood related “family” members treated differently? Determinants of bifurcation bias among family members in the family firm

Taewoo Kim, Laura Marler

Possible asymmetric treatment among family members has long been neglected in the field of family firm research. To fill this gap, the purpose of this study is to shed light on…

Do family firms contribute to job stability? Evidence from the great recession

Elena Rivo-López, Mónica Villanueva-Villar, Alberto Vaquero-García, Santiago Lago-Peñas

The purpose of this paper is to analyze if choices made by family businesses (FBs) regarding job stability in economic recessions are different, on average, to those made by…

Ethnic Albanian family businesses and COVID-19 pandemic: a gender-based comparison

Sara Mucha

This qualitative research aims to analyze the effects of the global crisis known as COVID-19 in family businesses in North Macedonia and defines the strategies that Albanian…