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Effects of parental entrepreneurial performance on the mode of entrepreneurial entry by the next-generation family members: evidence from an emerging economy
Sarah Watiri Muigai, Edward Mungai, S. Ramakrishna VelamuriThe purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of perceived parental entrepreneurial rewards, or PPERs (i.e. the offspring's perception of the degree of parental success in…
Understanding the antecedents of family influence in the family firm
Rima M. BizriWhat makes family influence so influential in the family firm? Time and again, research studies point to family influence as a factor that significantly impacts decision-making in…
Total quality management as driver for internationalization: a case study of a small family firm
Michela Floris, Michela Marongiu, Cinzia Dessi, Angela DettoriThis study investigates the relationship between Total Quality Management (TQM) and internationalization in small family firms, focusing on the role that the dimensions of TQM may…
Family-owned banks in Jordan: do they perform better?
Zaid Saidat, Abdel Razzaq Alrababa'a, Claire SeamanFamily ownership is very common for Jordanian businesses, leading to a high level of involvement of family members in company management. There continues to be intense discussion…
Promoting organizational diversity and preserving socioemotional wealth: can family businesses balance the two?
Arindam DasA key characteristic for a family firm, preservation of socioemotional wealth, may appear to be at conflict with the concept of organizational diversity. The authors investigate…
The relationship between collaboration, productivity and publications: an empirical analysis in field of family business
Ioannis Kinias, Ilias Kampouris, Stathis PolyzosIt is widely accepted that coauthorship and collaboration promotes intellectual partnerships and improves the quality of publications. This paper examines the relationship between…
Inclusion and employee engagement of nonfamily employees in family firms: moderating influence of procedural justice
Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Golam Mostafa Khan, Salem AlAbriThis study investigates the influence of inclusion of nonfamily employees in family firms on their intellectual, social and affective engagement at the workplace. Furthermore, the…
Cognition, emotion and action: persistent sources of parent–offspring paradoxes in the family business
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Maria João Soares Leitão, Stewart Clegg, Remedios Hernández-Linares, Horia Moasa, Kathleen Randerson, Arménio RegoThe purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB's members face these tensions and their…
Determinants of family meetings in private family businesses
Akif Cicek, Rüveyda Kelleci, Pieter VandekerkhofFamily governance mechanisms serve to govern and strengthen relations between the family and the business, as well as the relationships between the members of the business family…
Revisiting copreneurial from a business perspective: theoretical developments
Margarida Rodrigues, Mário FrancoThe change in couples' personal ambitions concerning their careers, how they look after their family and how they deal with the work–family balance has revolutionized their…
Integrating family, friendship and business networks in family firms
Claire Seaman, Ronald McQuaidThis paper considers the multiple social networks of small family businesses and the dynamic interactions between them. It analyses family, friendship and business networks and…
At the heart of family businesses: how copreneurs craft work-life balance
Romana Dreyer, Christine BuschThe purpose of this paper is to understand how experienced copreneurs of small family business (SFB), as the smallest unit and heart of their family business (FB), may create…
Is socioemotional wealth being influenced by the intentions to pursue succession on incumbent owners? Empirical research on Mexican family business
Carlos Rafael Contreras-Lozano, Maria Virginia Flores-Ortiz, Ma. Del Carmen Alcalá-ÁlvarezThe authors identify the theoretical constructions measuring the intentions to pursue succession as well as the socioemotional wealth theoretical framework, and the authors…
Review of differences between listed and unlisted family business research trends: a corporate governance context
Edem M. Azila-Gbettor, Ben Q. Honyenuga, Robert Jan Blomme, Ad KilThis review assesses state of knowledge by critically comparing empirical literature on relationships between corporate governance and performance with regards to listed and…
Human determinants influencing the digital transformation strategy of multigenerational family businesses: a multiple-case study of five French growth-oriented family firms
Blandine Ano, Richard BentIn a context of technological disruption, companies face a digital imperative to adopt successfully emerging new technologies. While family firms have a huge potential for growth…
Disharmony within harmony: contrasting views between incumbents and successors on the selection criterion adopted for family business successions
Nuntana Udomkit, Puttipong Kittidusadee, Claus SchreierThe purpose of this paper is to explore the attributes a subsequent successor in family business should possess and to examine differences in expected attributes in the eyes of…
Social networks and relationships in copreneurial firms: an international study
Laura Galloway, John W. Sanders, Jo Bensemann, Alexei TretiakovThis article explores the small unit of family business – being in business with one's spouse – in Scotland and New Zealand. With reference to social network theory, the research…
From family business orientation to organisational citizenship behaviour: prosocial behaviour in family business performance
Aluisius Hery Pratono, Ling HanThis article seeks to understand the role of prosocial behaviour and moral obligation in family business to explain the indirect relationship between family business orientation…
Investigating social capital, trust and commitment in family business: case of media firms
Mehdi Tajpour, Aidin Salamzadeh, Yashar Salamzadeh, Vitor BragaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate social capital's effect on family business development in selected family media firms.
The role of conflict in the adoption of governance practices in family businesses
Asael Islas-Moreno, Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, Enrique Genaro Martínez-González, Norman Aguilar-Gallegos, Wyn MorrisLittle is known regarding triggers in the adoption of governance practices within family businesses. Enterprises can implement governance practices to avoid re-arising conflicts…
The contribution of the external director for Brazilian private family business: a generational approach
Susana Sales da Silva Campos, Cláudio Antônio Pinheiro Machado Filho, Raquel Sales da Silva Costa, Lucas dos Santos-CostaThis paper aims to analyze the contribution of the external director to the governance of family businesses (FBs) in different generations. The authors aim to support the…
Why do eligible successors withdraw from the succession process in family businesses? A social exchange perspective
Lil Rodriguez Serna, Dilupa Nakandala, Dorothea BowyerSuccessors' unwillingness to participate in the family business is known to impede intergenerational succession. However, little is known about why those considered eligible, do…
Status conflict in family firms: a multilevel conceptual model
Aleš Kubíček, Ondřej MachekThe purpose of this study is to integrate status conflict, as a relatively recent and unexplored phenomenon, to the family business literature.
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) as the driver of business performance in family businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the mediating role of transformational leadership
Ramo Palalić, Hamza SmajićThe aim of this study is to investigate a mediation role of leadership over business performance and socioemotional wealth, within two Bosnian family businesses. This research…
Family succession, professionalization and internationalization: a study of Brazilian family businesses
Augusto Dalmoro Costa, Aurora Carneiro Zen, Everson dos Santos SpindlerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between family succession, professionalization and internationalization in family businesses within the Brazilian…
The willing successor: an exploration of grit and situational cues in family firms
Michele N. Medina-Craven, Emily Garrigues Marett, Sara E. DavisThis conceptual paper explores how the activation of the individual-level trait grit can explain variance in successor willingness to take over leadership of the family firm.
Bankruptcy at family and non-family firms: do they fail differently?
Christine Mitter, Michaela Walcher, Stefan Mayr, Christine DullerFamily firms strive for transgenerational survivability. Thus, bankruptcy is a daunting event. Whether family firms fail for other causes than non-family firms has been scarcely…
How is risk different in family and non-family businesses? A comparative statistical analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eulalia Santos, Vasco Tavares, Fernando Oliveira Tavares, Vanessa RattenRisk is part of corporate activity and a consequence of the businesses' demands, the market and the changes in companies and their surroundings. The way that risk is managed is…
The impact of family harmony on family SMEs' performance: the mediating role of information technologies
Vincent Dutot, Francois Bergeron, Andrea CalabròWith the increasing digitalization processes taking place in different industries, the success of family small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) appears to be more under threat…
Family business successors' motivation and innovation capabilities: the case of Kosovo
Asdren Toska, Veland Ramadani, Léo-Paul Dana, Gadaf Rexhepi, Jusuf ZeqiriThis study aims to investigate the second-generation successors’ motives to join family businesses and their ability to generate innovation within them.
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