Journal of Family Business Strategy

2010 - 2025

Current editor(s): J.H. Astrachan

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2020

Family control, ambivalence, and preferential benefits

Alex Stewart

Reconsidering socioemotional wealth: A Smithian-inspired socio-economic theory of decision-making in the family firm

Justin B. Craig and Scott L. Newbert

Performance of foundation-owned firms in Germany: The role of foundation purpose, stock market listing, and family involvement

Joern Block, Svenja Jarchow, Nadine Kammerlander, Florian Hosseini and Ann-Kristin Achleitner

Family business or business family? Organizational identity elasticity and strategic responses to disruptive innovation

Jasper Brinkerink, Emanuela Rondi, Carlotta Benedetti and Unai Arzubiaga

Listed Family Firm Stakeholder Orientations: The Critical Role of Value-creating Family Factors

Noora Heino, Pasi Tuominen and Iiro Jussila

Volume 11, issue 3, 2020

Daughters’ careers in family business: Motivation types and family-specific barriers

Anna Akhmedova, Rita Cavallotti, Frederic Marimon and Giovanna Campopiano

Successor selection in family business—A signaling game

Sabrina Schell, Julia K. de Groote, Petra Moog and Andreas Hack

Indirect nepotism: Network sponsorship, social capital and career performance in show business families

Yasaman Gorji, Michael Carney and Rajshree Prakash

For whom are family-owned firms good employers? An exploratory study of the turnover intentions of blue- and white-collar workers in family-owned and non-family-owned firms

Nicole Gottschalck, Christina Guenther and Franz Kellermanns

Careers in family business: New avenues for careers and family business research in the 21st century

Massimo Bau', Daniel Pittino, Philipp Sieger and Kimberly A. Eddleston

Volume 11, issue 2, 2020

Starting a family business as a career option: The role of the family household in Mexico

Daniel Pittino, Francesco Chirico, Massimo Bau', Marcia Villasana, Elvira E. Naranjo-Priego and Elda Barron

Drivers of selectivity in family firms: Understanding the impact of age and ownership on CSR

Laura Madden, Amy McMillan and Oneil Harris

Effects of Task Conflict on Board Task Performance in Family Firms: The Importance of Board Openness

Sadi Boĝaç Kanadlı, Mariateresa Torchia, Patricia Gabaldon and Andrea Calabrò

Practicing resilience in family firms: An investigation through phenomenography

Elisa Conz, Peter William Lamb and Alfredo De Massis

Diversified acquisitions in family firms: Restricted vs. extended family priorities

Bennet Schierstedt, Marisa Henn and Eva Lutz

Volume 11, issue 1, 2020

Non-family CEOs in family firms: Spotting gaps and challenging assumptions for a future research agenda

Matthias Waldkirch

Family business—A missing link in economics?

Dan Johansson, Johan Karlsson and Arvid Malm

Family-related antecedents of business legality: An empirical investigation among Italian family owned SMEs

Alexandra Dawson, Gianluca Ginesti and Salvatore Sciascia

Using sociological theory to problematize family business research

Eric R. Kushins and Elaina Behounek

Goal complexity in family firm diversification: Evidence from China

Junsheng Dou, Ning Wang, Emma Su, Hanqing Fang and Esra Memili

Volume 10, issue 4, 2019

Lean innovation: Family firm succession and patenting strategy in a dynamic institutional landscape

Michael Carney, Jing Zhao and Limin Zhu

Family firm R&D investments in the 2007–2009 Great Recession

Xian Sun, Soo-Hoon Lee and Phillip Phan

Unlocking innovation potential: A typology of family business innovation postures and the critical role of the family system

Emanuela Rondi, Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

Transgenerational entrepreneurship around the world: Implications for family business research and practice

Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabrò and Giovanna Campopiano

Reaping what you sow: The family firm innovation trajectory

Marleen Dieleman

Psychological ownership as a driving factor of innovation in older family firms

Sabine B. Rau, Arndt Werner and Sabrina Schell

Research on family firm innovation: What do family firms actually think and do?

Kimberly A. Eddleston, Franz Kellermanns and Gregory Collier

Volume 10, issue 3, 2019

The effect of nonfamily managers on decision-making quality in family firm TMTs: The role of intra-TMT power asymmetries pp. -

Pieter Vandekerkhof, Tensie Steijvers, Walter Hendriks and Wim Voordeckers

How psychological needs motivate family firm identifications and identifiers: A framework and future research agenda pp. -

Kimberly D. Elsbach and Torsten M. Pieper

When family social capital is too much of a good thing pp. -

Inés Herrero and Mathew Hughes

Bridging the micro-macro gap: A multi-layer culture framework for understanding entrepreneurial orientation in family firms pp. -

Christopher Arz

Relational processes in family entrepreneurial culture and resilience across generations pp. -

Sheila K. Hanson, Heather M. Hessel and Sharon M. Danes

Volume 10, issue 2, 2019

Daughters’ self-positioning in family business succession: A narrative inquiry pp. 72-86

Donata Mussolino, Mariavittoria Cicellin, Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Stefano Consiglio and Marcello Martinez

The leading role of the top management team in understanding family firms: Past research and future directions pp. 87-104

D’Allura, Giorgia Maria

Management ties and firm performance: Influence of family governance pp. 105-118

Tingko Lee

Socioemotional wealth in family firms: A longitudinal content analysis of corporate disclosures pp. 119-132

Peter Cleary, Martin Quinn and Alonso Moreno

How familiness affects innovation outcomes via absorptive capacity: A dynamic capability perspective of the family firm pp. 133-143

Joshua J. Daspit, Rebecca G. Long and Allison W. Pearson

Who cares about socioemotional wealth? SEW and rentier perspectives on the one percent wealthiest business households pp. 144-158

Robert S. Nason, Michael Carney, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller and Danny Miller

Volume 10, issue 1, 2019

Marketing and branding in family business: Assessing the landscape and charting a path forward pp. 3-7

Claudia Binz Astrachan, Reinhard Prügl, Joseph F. Hair and Barry J. Babin

Family involvement signals in initial public offerings pp. 8-16

Jeffrey A. Chandler, G. Tyge Payne, Curt Moore and Keith H. Brigham

Unraveling the impact of family antecedents on family firm image: A serial multiple-mediation model pp. 17-27

Anita Van Gils, Jolien Huybrechts, Tommaso Minola and Lucio Cassia

How promoting a family firm image affects customer perception in the age of social media pp. 28-37

Johanna Zanon, Ursula Scholl-Grissemann, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Nikolas Kleinhansl and Mike Peters

“Who am I? Who are we?” Understanding the impact of family business identity on the development of individual and family identity in business families pp. 38-48

Albertha J. Wielsma and Olof Brunninge

Family presence, family firm reputation and perceived financial performance: Empirical evidence from the Philippines pp. 49-56

Andrea Santiago, Shweta Pandey and Ma. Theresa Manalac

Exploring family business brands: Understanding predictors and effects pp. 57-68

Ascensión Barroso Martínez, Ramón Sanguino Galván, Isabel C. Botero, Óscar R. González-López and María Buenadicha Mateos

Volume 9, issue 4, 2018

Too much of a good thing: Family involvement and the survival of listed Korean firms pp. 223-237

Jaeyoung Cho, Danny Miller and Jangwoo Lee

Women leaders and firm performance in family businesses: An examination of financial and nonfinancial outcomes pp. 238-249

Ingrid C. Chadwick and Alexandra Dawson

Acquisitions, disclosed goals and firm characteristics: A content analysis of family and nonfamily firms pp. 250-267

Maija Worek, Alfredo De Massis, Mike Wright and Viktoria Veider

Private equity and family firms: A systematic review and categorization of the field pp. 268-292

Antonia Schickinger, Max P. Leitterstorf and Nadine Kammerlander

Does regional context matter for family firm employment growth? pp. 293-310

Johan Karlsson

It’s all about who you know: The role of social networks in intra-family succession in small and medium-sized firms pp. 311-325

Sabrina Schell, Miriam Hiepler and Petra Moog

Volume 9, issue 3, 2018

Can family business loosen the grips of accounting, economics, and finance? pp. 153-166

Alex Stewart

Business stressors, family-business identity, and divorce in family business: A vulnerability-stress-adaptation (VSA) model pp. 167-179

Paul Sanchez-Ruiz, Ileana Maldonado-Bautista and Matthew Rutherford

Family business employer brand: Understanding applicants’ perceptions and their job pursuit intentions with samples from the US and Belgium pp. 180-191

Diane Arijs, Isabel C. Botero, Anneleen Michiels and Vincent Molly

A note on the relationships between learning, market, and entrepreneurial orientations in family and nonfamily firms pp. 192-204

Remedios Hernández-Linares, Franz Kellermanns and María Concepción López-Fernández

The impact of family influence on financial reporting quality in small and medium family firms pp. 205-218

Antonio Duréndez and Antonia Madrid-Guijarro

Volume 9, issue 2, 2018

On the goals of family firms: A review and integration pp. 94-106

Pedro Vazquez and Héctor Rocha

Reflections on family firm goals and the assessment of performance pp. 107-113

Jess H. Chua, James J. Chrisman, Alfredo De Massis and Hao Wang

Unravelling the link between process innovation inputs and outputs: The moderating role of family management pp. 114-127

Julio Diéguez-Soto, Aurora Garrido-Moreno and Montserrat Manzaneque

The complex role of family involvement in earnings management pp. 128-141

Silvia Ferramosca and Marco Allegrini

Reporting strategies: What makes family firms beat around the bush? Family-related antecedents of annual report readability pp. 142-150

Carlo Drago, Gianluca Ginesti, Claudia Pongelli and Salvatore Sciascia

Volume 9, issue 1, 2018

Branding the family firm: A review, integrative framework proposal, and research agenda pp. 3-15

Claudia Binz Astrachan, Isabel Botero, Joseph H. Astrachan and Reinhard Prügl

Strategic distinctiveness in family firms: Firm institutional heterogeneity and configurational multidimensionality pp. 16-26

Danny Miller, Mario Amore, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Alessandro Minichilli and Fabio Quarato

Who are the best performers? The environmental social performance of family firms pp. 33-43

Georges Samara, Dima Jamali, Vicenta Sierra and Maria Jose Parada

European family firms and acquisition propensity: A comprehensive analysis of the legal system’s role pp. 44-58

Ignacio Requejo, Fernando Reyes-Reina, Maria J. Sanchez-Bueno and Isabel Suarez-Gonzalez

Exploring the relation between family ownership and incentive stock options: The contingency of family leadership, board monitoring and financial crisis pp. 59-72

Simona Catuogno, Claudia Arena, Alessandro Cirillo and Luca Pennacchio

“Shadow emperor” or “loyal paladin”? – The Janus face of previous owner involvement in family firm successions pp. 73-90

Jan-Philipp Ahrens, Lorraine Uhlaner, Michael Woywode and Jan Zybura