Family firm research: sketching a research field

Sascha Kraus, Rainer Harms and Matthias Fink

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2011, vol. 13, issue 1, 32-47

Abstract: Due to the importance of family firms for the economy, researchers have begun to embrace family firms as a research object. This article seeks to summarise and to structure family firm research based on an extensive survey of the literature. Important research foundations such as the definition of family firms, a theoretical foundation in the resource based view and in entrepreneurship and research topics such as performance differences of family firms, their goal structure, psychological ownership and business succession are outlined and discussed.

Keywords: familiness; family firms; resource-based views; small and medium-sized enterprises; SMEs; research fields; business definitions; performance differences; goal structures; psychological ownership; business succession; entrepreneurship; innovation management; entrepreneurial behaviour; family businesses. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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