The Heterogeneity of Family Firm Ethical Cultures: Current Insights and Future Directions

William Tabor (), Kristen Madison (), Joshua J. Daspit () and Daniel T. Holt ()
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William Tabor: Mississippi State University
Kristen Madison: Mississippi State University
Joshua J. Daspit: Mississippi State University
Daniel T. Holt: Mississippi State University

Chapter 23 in The Palgrave Handbook of Heterogeneity among Family Firms, 2019, pp 615-642 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Family firms are often assumed to have distinct ethical cultures compared to nonfamily firms; however, this assumption neglects to consider the ethics-specific heterogeneity that exists across the landscape of family firms. Therefore, this chapter reviews the literature on family firm ethics, highlighting those vast differences. We identify 29 articles published between 1996 and 2016 that we synthesize by focus: the ethics of family firms versus nonfamily firms, family-related antecedents, and firm-level outcomes of ethical cultures. We present avenues for future research, including the need to investigate how professionalization and context influences family firm ethical cultures.

Keywords: Family firms; Ethics; Culture; Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77676-7_23

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