Does Size Matter? The Moderating Effects of Firm Size on the Employment of Nonfamily Managers in Privately Held Family SMEs

Hanqinq “Chevy†Fang, Robert V.D.G. Randolph, Esra Memili and James J. Chrisman

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016, vol. 40, issue 5, 1017-1039

Abstract: Family firms’ decisions to hire nonfamily managers are influenced by agency costs, socioemotional wealth concerns, and the availability of high–quality nonfamily managers in the labor pool. We hypothesize that owing to these factors, family ownership and intrafamily succession intentions will be negatively associated with the proportion of nonfamily managers in private small– and medium–sized (SME) family firms. However, firm size is hypothesized to positively moderate those relationships because as family firm size increases, the benefits of hiring nonfamily managers rise faster than the costs. Tobit regression analyses of 7,299 private SMEs support our hypotheses.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1111/etap.12156

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