Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon

Frank Lambrechts and Luca Gnan

Journal of Family Business Strategy, 2022, vol. 13, issue 2

Abstract: Human resources are paramount to family firms and to families in business because they are essential for achieving human flourishing and building family businesses that last for generations. Despite the increasing focus on HR in recent years, our understanding of the drivers, processes, and outcomes of family firm HR practices is still in its infancy. As a result, the development of useful theory has opportunity to grow. The aim of our Special Issue is to demonstrate the power of the mutual gains perspective to advance actionable insights around HR issues in family business scholarship and practice. Toward this aim, this Special Issue presents five research articles that have taken the mutual gains perspective to heart in their own ways, making significant contributions not only to the family business field but also to the HRM domain and beyond. Inspired by, but also going beyond the articles in this Special Issue, we develop concrete ideas and questions that flesh out new developments and possibilities on the horizon, using the following question as a leitmotiv: “How can family business research and practice help create healthy, flourishing family firms for flourishing people (family and nonfamily), taking into account the heterogeneity of family firms and families in business?”

Keywords: Family business; Human resources; Mutual gains; Well-being; Sustainability; Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfbs.2022.100502

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