Journal of Family Business Strategy

2010 - 2026

Current editor(s): J.H. Astrachan

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Volume 17, issue 2, 2026

Founding family firms and exploration orientation: Analysis of S&P 500 firms

Eva Dötschel and Sebastian Junge

Local institutions and the productivity of family and non-family firms: Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry

Valentina Pieroni, Stefano Amato, Rodrigo Basco and Nicola Lattanzi

Inbound open innovation strategies and product innovation: A study of family versus non-family businesses

Usman Ali, Montserrat Manzaneque-Lizano, Julio Diéguez-Soto and Mario Ossorio

Creating psychological contracts in family firms: The role of family membership at organisational entry

O’Leary, Olivia, Linda Murphy, Ultan Sherman and James Duggan

Volume 17, issue 1, 2026

Digital transformation as a source of innovation in manufacturing family firms: Analysis of developed and emerging economies

Mikel Alayo, Christian Keen, Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso, Christina Theodoraki and Sara A. Wong

Navigating conflict in business families: Conflict markers in digital communication

Christina Strauss, Arist von Schlippe and Franz W. Kellermanns

The organization as an intelligent entity: Using artificial intelligence to explore the sustainability of family and non-family firms

Melania Riefolo, Sina Grosskopf and Jan-Philipp Ahrens

Temporal and social distance in family firm ESG

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller and Danny Miller

Introducing the business family brand: Managing brand identity, image, and reputation

Philipp Jaufenthaler and Justin T. Scott

Volume 16, issue 4, 2025

Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns

Jochim G. Lauterbach

Bridging generations: Managing cognitive conflicts during technology adoption in multigenerational family firms

Maria Carmela Annosi, Mathew Hughes, Davide de Gennaro, Roberta Oppedisano and Filomena Buonocore

Business family identity in single family offices – A configurational approach

Clemens Christian Krüger, Christian-Titus Klaiber and Reinhard Prügl

Ecological succession as a model for family business transitions: Integrating organizational ecology with succession-based governance in multigenerational enterprises

Christian Neusser

Volume 16, issue 3, 2025

Research on family offices: What is the way forward? A systematic literature review

Patrik Hayoz, Bingbing Ge and Alfredo De Massis

An update on family firm succession: A systematic literature review and future research directions

Tobias Reif, Dustin Bauer, Sebastian Junge and Verena Hossnofsky

Family firm perceptions and investment decisions: An experimental conjoint analysis of private equity investors

Sören Paleit, Frederik J. Riar, Marcel Hülsbeck and Andreas Hack

Resolution of financial distress in SMEs: How do family ownership and involvement affect second chance?

Carlotta Magri, Federico Bertacchini and Pier Luigi Marchini

Measuring family dynamics in business-owning families: Development and validation of the business owning family adaptability and cohesion scale

Thomas Rieg, Nastaran Simarasl, Sabine B. Rau and Franz W. Kellermanns

Corporate venturing in family firms: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Michela Bearzi, Daniel Pittino, Francesca Visintin and Cinzia Battistella

From transmission to co-creation: Understanding family value composites in multigenerational business families

Viktoria Luft, Anne Katarina Heider, Heinrich Liechtenstein and Tarek el Sehity

Volume 16, issue 2, 2025

The anatomy of family business conflict

Marco Mismetti, Barbara Del Bosco, Cristina Bettinelli and Alfredo De Massis

Competitive dynamics in family firms: Transactional versus communal approaches

Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

What drives bank financing in family firms? A systematic review and research agenda

Lien Vekemans, Anneleen Michiels, Tensie Steijvers and Vincent Molly

Volume 16, issue 1, 2025

CEO identity and media perception: The influence on family firms’ brand importance

Carlotta Benedetti, Paola Rovelli, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Alfredo De Massis and Kurt Matzler

Socioemotional wealth (SEW) across borders: Integrating national context into SEW research

Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso, Cristina Cruz, Mohamed Mazen Batterjee, Jorge-Humberto Mejia-Morelos, Luis Cisneros and Nhu Tuyen LE

Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”

Vidya Sukumara Panicker and Elena Georgiadou

Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?

Cristina Aragon-Amonarriz, Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Raúl Mínguez, Asier Minondo and Francisco Requena Silvente

Volume 15, issue 4, 2024

Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers

Annika Ehlers, Ryan Rumble, Claudia Binz Astrachan and Massimo Baù

Using machine learning to identify and measure the family influence on companies

Mario Daniele Amore, D’Angelo, Valentino, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Valerio Pelucco and Marc Van Essen

Volume 15, issue 3, 2024

The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses

Ayoosha Saleem, Francesco Barbera, Simon B. de Jong and Arvid O.I. Hoffmann

Stop... Just stop! The use and misuse of methodological template prescriptions in qualitative family business research and ways forward

Tine Köhler, Anne D. Smith and Torsten M. Pieper

Capital structure of single family office-owned firms

Joern Block, Reza Fathollahi and Onur Eroglu

The impact of managers' personality on task and relationship conflict: The moderating role of family and non-family business status

Maria Bernarda Guerrero Calle, Katalien Bollen, Dolores Sucozhañay and Martin Euwema

Unveiling environmental, social, and governance dynamics in family firms

Lorenzo Ardito, Paolo Capolupo, Alfredo De Massis, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Ivan Miroshnychenko

Political embeddedness, socioemotional wealth, and R&D investment in family firms: Evidence from China as a transition economy

Shuang Meng, Luis R. Gomez-Mejia and Jingtao Yi

A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller and Danny Miller

Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting

Elena Casprini, Rocco Palumbo and Alfredo De Massis

A gendered examination of heroic self-concept and letting go by family firm leaders

Nancy Forster-Holt, James Davis and Cassidy Creech

Family firm employment behavior during a financial crisis: Does generational stage matter?

Noora Heino, Naufal Alimov and Pasi Tuominen

Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond

Matthew Fox, Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni and Jeffrey G. Covin

Measuring family influence from the non-family employee perspective: The perceived family influence scale (PFIS)

Sven Wolff, Philipp Koehn, Philipp J. Ruf, Petra M. Moog and Giuseppe Strina

Creating and sustaining mutualistic well-being: Toward a theory of family and business symbiosis

Kimberly A. Eddleston and Jennifer E. Jennings

Volume 15, issue 2, 2024

CEO risk preferences in family firms: Combining socioemotional wealth and gender identity perspectives

Fabio Zona, Caterina Pesci and Marco Zamarian

Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance

Martin Tao-Schuchardt and Nadine Kammerlander

Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity

Annalisa Sentuti, Francesca Maria Cesaroni and Paola Demartini

Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business

Andrea Calabrò, Elisa Conti and Stefania Masè

Strategy disclosure and cost of capital: The key role of women directors for family firms

Rafaela Gjergji, Luigi Vena, Giovanna Campopiano, Salvatore Sciascia and Alessandro Cortesi

Advancing diversity research in family business

Mariasole Bannò, D’Allura, Giorgia M., Alexandra Dawson, Mariateresa Torchia and David Audretsch

Volume 15, issue 1, 2024

Women’s entrepreneurial stewardship: The contribution of women to family business continuity in rural areas of Honduras

Allan Discua Cruz, Eleanor Hamilton, Giovanna Campopiano and Sarah L. Jack

Graduating college students apply here: Communicating family firm ownership and firm size

Orlando Llanos-Contreras, Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos and Dianne H.B. Welsh

Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, Anabel Mendoza-Lopez, Cristina Cruz, Patricio Duran and Herman Aguinis

The role of the family and the institutional context for ambidexterity in Latin American family firms

Fernanda Canale, Claudio Müller, Eddy Laveren and Bart Cambré

What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons

Pedro Vazquez, Isabel C. Botero, Unai Arzubiaga and Esra Memili