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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Johanna Gast: MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School - UM - Université de Montpellier

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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\textquoteleft individual human capital and their leadership behaviour, openness to externals, cross-country comparisons, and finally the family\textquotelefts 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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Published in International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20 (06), pp.1650054. ⟨10.1142/S1363919616500547⟩

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DOI: 10.1142/S1363919616500547

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