Journal of Family Business Strategy

2010 - 2026

Current editor(s): J.H. Astrachan

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2021

Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Irma Martínez-García, Rodrigo Basco and Silvia Gómez-Ansón

Closing the gender gap in top management teams: An examination of diversity and compensation parity in family and non-family firms

Shalini Sarin Jain, Guy D. Fernando, Arindam Tripathy and Sandhya Bhatia

Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy

Louise Scholes, Mathew Hughes, Mike Wright, Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

Surviving disruptive change: The role of history in aligning strategy and identity in family businesses

Jana Bövers and Christina Hoon

When so much is at stake: Understanding organizational brinkmanship in family business

Celina Smith, Mattias Nordqvist, Alfredo De Massis and Danny Miller

Family business risk-taking and financial performance: Is it easier said than done?

Ana C. González L., Yeny E. Rodríguez, Juan M. Gómez, Helmuth Chávez and Jaly Chea

Aspirations of Chinese families-in-business: Development of a reliable measurement instrument

Feifei Lu, Zhu Zhu and Xiaogang He

Volume 12, issue 3, 2021

“The royal award goes to…”: Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures

Sumaya Hashim, Lucia Naldi and Magdalena Markowska

Family businesses in the Arab Middle East: What do we know and where should we go?

Georges Samara

An Ethnography of Fairness Perceptions among Non-Family Employees: Does Religion Matter?

Ali Azouz, Nicolas Antheaume and Brigitte Charles-Pauvers

Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions

Brian Waterwall and Kent K. Alipour

Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers

Joseph F. Hair, Claudia Binz Astrachan, Ovidiu Moisescu, Lăcrămioara Radomir, Marko Sarstedt, Santha Vaithilingam and Christian M. Ringle

Firing managers: The benefits of family ownership and costs of family management

Chiung-Wen Tsao, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller and Shyh-Jer Chen

How do family businesses grow? Differences in growth patterns between family and non-family firms

Ana M. Moreno-Menéndez and José C. Casillas

Volume 12, issue 2, 2021

The influence of transgenerational succession intentions on the succession planning process: The moderating role of high-quality relationships

Ine Umans, Nadine Lybaert, Tensie Steijvers and Wim Voordeckers

Nurturing offspring’s affective commitment through informal family governance mechanisms

Mira Bloemen-Bekx, Anita Van Gils, Frank Lambrechts and Pramodita Sharma

Innovation in the post-succession phase of family firms: Family CEO successors and leadership constellations as resources

Jan Zybura, Nora Zybura, Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Michael Woywode

From family successors to successful business leaders: A qualitative study of how high-quality relationships develop in family businesses

Kiran Kandade, Georges Samara, Maria José Parada and Alexandra Dawson

Business families in times of crises: The backbone of family firm resilience and continuity

Andrea Calabrò, Hermann Frank, Alessandro Minichilli and Julia Suess-Reyes

Volume 12, issue 1, 2021

Experimental studies in family business research

Maximilian Lude and Reinhard Prügl

Leadership Styles and Leadership Behaviors in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review

Alexander Fries, Nadine Kammerlander and Max Leitterstorf

Advancing family business science through context theorizing: The case of the Arab world

Norris Krueger, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, Rania Labaki and Rodrigo Basco

Embedded but not asleep: Entrepreneurship and family business research in the 21st century

Howard E. Aldrich, Mara Brumana, Giovanna Campopiano and Tommaso Minola

Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements

Claudia Binz Astrachan, Joseph H. Astrachan, Josip Kotlar and Anneleen Michiels

Brief reflections on family firm research and some suggested paths forward

Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees’ perceived organizational caring

Amanda Christensen-Salem, Luiz F. Mesquita, Marcos Hashimoto, Peter W. Hom and Luis R. Gomez-Mejia

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