Journal of Family Business Management: Volume 9 Issue 4

TMT diversity and innovation ambidexterity in family firms: The mediating role of open innovation breadth

Irina Röd

Family firms that simultaneously engage in multiple levels of innovation – incremental and radical – are likely to enjoy performance advantages across generations. The purpose of…

Socioemotional wealth and family commitment: Moderating role of controlling generation in family firms

Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Raida Abu Bakar, Norizah Mustamil

The purpose of this paper is to determine the elements of family-centric non-economic goals, such as socioemotional wealth (SEW) of family business owners, that drive family…

Gender and business owner satisfaction: The case of farm and non-farm family businesses in the Midwest

Wenxuan Li, Maria I. Marshall

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the factors associated with role satisfaction in farm and non-farm family businesses differ by gender of the business owner.

Paradoxical influence of family ownership on innovation-focused organizational change: Evidence from a large family business retail firm

Izabela Szymanska, Anita Blanchard, Kaleigh Kuhns

The purpose of this paper is to focus on efforts of a large department store to increase its business advantage by boosting innovation. The first broad research question of this…

An image theory of strategic decision-making in family businesses

Christopher Penney, James Vardaman, Laura Marler, Victoria Antin-Yates

Research suggests family businesses often pursue risky or aggressive strategies despite the desire to preserve socioemotional wealth (SEW), which is thought to lead to…

Socioemotional wealth and performance in private family firms: The mediation effect of family commitment

Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Suaad Jassem

Although family business literature acknowledges that family firms owners are motivated by a set of socioemotional wealth (SEW) goals along with firm-centric business goals, yet a…