INNOVATION IN FAMILY FIRMS — EXAMINING THE INVENTORY AND MAPPING THE PATH

Matthias Filser (), Alexander Brem, Johanna Gast, Sascha Kraus () and Andrea Calabrò ()
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Matthias Filser: University of Liechtenstein, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Johanna Gast: Montpellier Business School — MRM, 2300 Avenue des Moulins, 34185 Montpellier, France4Lappeenranta University of Technology — School of Business, P.O. Box 20 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland
Sascha Kraus: University of Liechtenstein, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2016, vol. 20, issue 06, 1-39

Abstract: Over the past decade, research on innovation in family firms has received growing attention by scholars and practitioners around the globe with a wide range of aspects explored within the current body of literature. Despite the constantly growing number of scientific publications, research lacks a comprehensive and critical review of past and present research achievements. First, conducting a bibliometric analysis with a focus on innovation in family firms, we identify five topical clusters that help to understand the foundations of recent findings: namely ownership and governance, structural settings, organizational culture and behaviour, resources, and innovation and strategy. Second, based on a thorough literature review the major research avenues are reflected. The comparison of the results of both analyses showed the following areas for future research on family firm innovation: members‘ individual human capital and their leadership behaviour, openness to externals, cross-country comparisons, and finally the family‘s functional integrity on innovation performance.

Keywords: Family firm; innovation; bibliometrics; citation analysis; literature analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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