Journal of Family Business Management
Issue(s) available: 30 – From Volume: 1 Issue: 1, to Volume: 11 Issue: 3
Family firm succession in tourism and hospitality: an ethnographic case study approach
Andreas Kallmuenzer, Kayhan Tajeddini, Thilini Chaturika Gamage, Daniel Lorenzo, Alvaro Rojas, Michael Josef Alfred SchallnerGrounded in stewardship theory, this study explores the motives, actions and meanings of multiple stakeholders involved in an inter-family hospitality family firm succession.
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) as the driver of business performance in family businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina: the mediating role of transformational leadership
Ramo Palalić, Hamza SmajićThe aim of this study is to investigate a mediation role of leadership over business performance and socioemotional wealth, within two Bosnian family businesses. This…
Investigating social capital, trust and commitment in family business: case of media firms
Mehdi Tajpour, Aidin Salamzadeh, Yashar Salamzadeh, Vitor BragaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate social capital's effect on family business development in selected family media firms.
The contribution of the external director for Brazilian private family business: a generational approach
Susana Sales da Silva Campos, Cláudio Antônio Pinheiro Machado Filho, Raquel Sales da Silva Costa, Lucas dos Santos-CostaThis paper aims to analyze the contribution of the external director to the governance of family businesses (FBs) in different generations. The authors aim to support the…
Status conflict in family firms: a multilevel conceptual model
Aleš Kubíček, Ondřej MachekThe purpose of this study is to integrate status conflict, as a relatively recent and unexplored phenomenon, to the family business literature.
Why do eligible successors withdraw from the succession process in family businesses? A social exchange perspective
Lil Rodriguez Serna, Dilupa Nakandala, Dorothea BowyerSuccessors' unwillingness to participate in the family business is known to impede intergenerational succession. However, little is known about why those considered…
Is small and medium-sized beautiful? The structure and evolution of family SMEs research
Giuseppe Valenza, Andrea Caputo, Andrea CalabròThe field of scientific research on small and medium-sized family businesses has been growing exponentially and the aim of this paper is to systematize the body of…
The role of conflict in the adoption of governance practices in family businesses
Asael Islas-Moreno, Manrrubio Muñoz-Rodríguez, Vinicio Horacio Santoyo-Cortés, Enrique Genaro Martínez-González, Norman Aguilar-Gallegos, Wyn MorrisLittle is known regarding triggers in the adoption of governance practices within family businesses. Enterprises can implement governance practices to avoid re-arising…
Social networks and relationships in copreneurial firms: an international study
Laura Galloway, John W. Sanders, Jo Bensemann, Alexei TretiakovThis article explores the small unit of family business – being in business with one's spouse – in Scotland and New Zealand. With reference to social network theory, the…
The postponed succession: an investigation of the obstacles hindering business transmission planning in family firms
Filippo FerrariDrawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this research aims to investigate systemically if and how incumbents and successors share attitudes, social norms and…
From family business orientation to organisational citizenship behaviour: prosocial behaviour in family business performance
Aluisius Hery Pratono, Ling HanThis article seeks to understand the role of prosocial behaviour and moral obligation in family business to explain the indirect relationship between family business…
Human determinants influencing the digital transformation strategy of multigenerational family businesses: a multiple-case study of five French growth-oriented family firms
Blandine Ano, Richard BentIn a context of technological disruption, companies face a digital imperative to adopt successfully emerging new technologies. While family firms have a huge potential for…
Owner-manager when death do us part – roles of a widow in sudden succession in family firms
Hanna Almlöf, Hans SjögrenThis study sheds light on a hitherto understudied group in family business literature: widows. We explore the roles a widow may take following the unexpected death of her…
Review of differences between listed and unlisted family business research trends: a corporate governance context
Edem M. Azila-Gbettor, Ben Q. Honyenuga, Robert Jan Blomme, Ad KilThis review assesses state of knowledge by critically comparing empirical literature on relationships between corporate governance and performance with regards to listed…
Disharmony within harmony: contrasting views between incumbents and successors on the selection criterion adopted for family business successions
Nuntana Udomkit, Puttipong Kittidusadee, Claus SchreierThe purpose of this paper is to explore the attributes a subsequent successor in family business should possess and to examine differences in expected attributes in the…
Revisiting copreneurial from a business perspective: theoretical developments
Margarida Rodrigues, Mário FrancoThe change in couples' personal ambitions concerning their careers, how they look after their family and how they deal with the work–family balance has revolutionized…
Integrating family, friendship and business networks in family firms
Claire Seaman, Ronald McQuaidThis paper considers the multiple social networks of small family businesses and the dynamic interactions between them. It analyses family, friendship and business…
Cognition, emotion and action: persistent sources of parent–offspring paradoxes in the family business
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Maria João Soares Leitão, Stewart Clegg, Remedios Hernández-Linares, Horia Moasa, Kathleen Randerson, Arménio RegoThe purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB's members face these tensions and…
Determinants of family meetings in private family businesses
Akif Cicek, Rüveyda Kelleci, Pieter VandekerkhofFamily governance mechanisms serve to govern and strengthen relations between the family and the business, as well as the relationships between the members of the business…
At the heart of family businesses: how copreneurs craft work-life balance
Romana Dreyer, Christine BuschThe purpose of this paper is to understand how experienced copreneurs of small family business (SFB), as the smallest unit and heart of their family business (FB), may…
Inclusion and employee engagement of nonfamily employees in family firms: moderating influence of procedural justice
Mohammad Rezaur Razzak, Golam Mostafa Khan, Salem AlAbriThis study investigates the influence of inclusion of nonfamily employees in family firms on their intellectual, social and affective engagement at the workplace…
Is socioemotional wealth being influenced by the intentions to pursue succession on incumbent owners? Empirical research on Mexican family business
Carlos Rafael Contreras-Lozano, Maria Virginia Flores-Ortiz, Ma. Del Carmen Alcalá-ÁlvarezThe authors identify the theoretical constructions measuring the intentions to pursue succession as well as the socioemotional wealth theoretical framework, and the…
Conceptualizing recourses as antecedents to the economic performance of family-based microenterprise – the moderating role of competencies
Shamsuddin Ahamad, Hamdan Amerali Al-jaifi, Md Imtiaz MostafizThe development of family-based microenterprises has attracted the attention of regulators, microfinance institutions and other stakeholders in either developing or least…
Impact of wise leadership, workplace friendships on open innovation in family firms: a developing country perspective
Amir A. Abdulmuhsin, Ali TarhiniThis study draws upon the hybrid approach of the resource-based view and social capital theory, and aims to develop and empirically validate a model that examines the…
Determining nonfamily employees' job satisfaction and turnover intentions: the roles of job autonomy and work passion
Michael Mustafa, Hazel Melanie Ramos, Siti Khadijah Zainal BadriThe purpose of this study seeks to examine how nonfamily employees' job autonomy and work passion can influence their job satisfaction and intention to quit in family…
Entrepreneurial bricolage in smallholder commercial farming: a family business perspective
Catherine Komugisha Tindiwensi, Ernest Abaho, John C. Munene, Moses Muhwezi, Isaac N. NkoteThe purpose of this paper is to analyse how entrepreneurial bricolage empowers smallholder commercial farming, from a family business perspective.
Dark side of the family business: an exploratory perspective
Oscar Javier Montiel Mendez, Argentina Soto MacielThe paper aims to relate the potential elements identified as the dark side of the family business (DSFB), where these elements can be productive or destructive. The “dark…
Risk management in small family firms: insights into a paradox
Christine Mitter, Maria Postlmayr, Michael KuttnerThe purpose of this study is to provide insights into the risk management practices of small family firms (SFFs).
Knowledge management and human resources performance: evidence from Turkish family businesses
Halil Zaim, Veland Ramadani, Sait Revda Dinibutun, Shqipe Gërguri-Rashiti, Dina Sabry SaidThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of knowledge management (KM) processes on human resource management’s (HRM’s) performance in family-owned…
Effects of personality disorders and attitudes towards social networking services: evidence from family business successors in the Arab world
Hasan A. AbbasThis paper examines the effect of personality disorders, namely loneliness and shyness, on the family business successors' attitude towards social networking services (SNS).
Do family firms contribute to job stability? Evidence from the great recession
Elena Rivo-López, Mónica Villanueva-Villar, Alberto Vaquero-García, Santiago Lago-PeñasThe purpose of this paper is to analyze if choices made by family businesses (FBs) regarding job stability in economic recessions are different, on average, to those made…
How do Spanish unlisted family firms rebalance their capital structures?
Zélia Serrasqueiro, Fernanda Matias, Julio Diéguez-SotoThis paper seeks to analyze the family firm's capital structure decisions, focusing on the speed of adjustment (SOA) as well as on the effect of distance from the target…
Are non-blood related “family” members treated differently? Determinants of bifurcation bias among family members in the family firm
Taewoo Kim, Laura MarlerPossible asymmetric treatment among family members has long been neglected in the field of family firm research. To fill this gap, the purpose of this study is to shed…
Identifying territory-linked family business groups: a methodological proposal
Aitor Garmendia-Lazcano, Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Cristina Aragon-AmonarrizThe purpose of this paper is to design a methodology to identify territory-linked family business groups (TLFBGs) in order to overcome the methodological challenges and…
Innovation orientation and performance of Kuwaiti family businesses: evidence from the initial period of COVID-19 pandemic
Mohammad ZainalThis paper analyses the impact of innovation orientation on the family business performance in Kuwait. Further, the aim of this paper is to understand the innovation…
Innovative drivers for family business models in tourism
Gabriella Arcese, Marco Valeri, Stefano Poponi, Grazia Chiara ElmoThe aim of this paper is to verify whether, in the tourism sector, the “family business model” is an important development opportunity and, in particular, if it is an…
Human resource management adaptation among family firms operating in Western Australia: an exploratory study
Michelle O'Shea, Abel Duarte AlonsoInterviews were conducted with eight family businesses involved in several industries in Western Australia.
Internal and external successions in family firms: a meta-analysis
Nadine Schlömer-Laufen, Andreas RauchDespite much progress in the field of family business research, there is still no unequivocal quantitative evidence on how many family businesses are generally transferred…
The effect of family business exposure on individuals' entrepreneurial intentions: an institutional theory perspective
Sarfraz Zaman, Muhammad Arshad, Naheed Sultana, Sharjeel SaleemThe purpose of this study is to examine the effect of family business exposure on individuals' entrepreneurial intentions (EIs). By applying the institutional framework at…
Intra-family dynamics and succession planning in family businesses in South Africa: the daughter as a potential successor
Boris Urban, Ruth Palesa NonkweloLiterature considers the succession process to be successful when both the continuity of the business and harmony within the family are preserved. This study empirically…
Direct and indirect effect of entrepreneurial orientation, family involvement and gender on family business performance
Erny Rachmawati, Suliyanto, Agus SurosoThis study aims to determine the direct effect of entrepreneurial orientation on family business performance. This study also discusses the role of family involvement as a…
Determinants of family entrepreneurship in the beekeeping sector
Kaltrinë BislimiKosovo is a transition country, and family businesses are seen as the best way to ensure its existence. The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance of…
Modern slavery in the criminal family firm: misrecognition and symbolic violence in recruitment and retention practices
Udeni SalmonThe purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of recruitment and retention practices in the criminal family firm and to provide theoretical explanation for the…
Network science and sustainable performance of family businesses in tourism
Rodolfo Baggio, Marco ValeriThere is a little appreciation for the role network science can play in sustainable tourism, and it is not quite clear to what extent generic models from the tourism…
Ethnic Albanian family businesses and COVID-19 pandemic: a gender-based comparison
Sara MuchaThis qualitative research aims to analyze the effects of the global crisis known as COVID-19 in family businesses in North Macedonia and defines the strategies that…
Strategic management in family business. The missing concept of the familiness learning mechanism
Ismael Barros-Contreras, Rodrigo Basco, Natalia Martín-Cruz, Juan HernangómezThe purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the roots of family firms' competitive advantages by defining and testing the familiness…
Corporate social responsibility and dividend policy: a strategic choice in family firms
Muhammad Fayyaz Sheikh, Aamir Inam Bhutta, Bareera Rehman, Muhammad Bazil, Ali HassanThe purpose of this study is to examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects dividend policy (the propensity to pay dividends as well as the dividend…
Impact of family succession on financial performance: empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Kamrul Hassan Sunon, Muzhtaba Tawkeer Islam, M. Adnan KabirAcademic research on the transgenerational performance differences among family firms in Bangladesh is still in its infancy. This paper delves into this issue to answer…
The adoption of governance mechanisms in family businesses: an institutional lens
Maria Jose Parada, Alberto Gimeno, Georges Samara, Willem SarisDespite agreement on the importance of adopting governance structures for developing competitive advantage, we still know little about why or how governance mechanisms are…
Migrant family entrepreneurship – mixed and multiple embeddedness of transgenerational Turkish family entrepreneurs in Berlin
Gökay Selcuk, Lech SuwalaBy combining manifold approaches from migrant entrepreneurship and family business studies, the purpose of the paper is to shed some light upon the contextual features of…
The relation between religiosity, family cohesion and ethical leadership: a study of family firms in Turkey
Mehmet ÇetinThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the links among different forms of religiosity, family cohesion and ethical leadership in family firms operating in Turkey.
Family firm employees: identification, stewardship practices and citizenship behaviors
Michele N. Medina-Craven, Danielle Cooper, Christopher Penney, Miguel P. CaldasThis paper aims to understand the factors that influence employee organizational identification in family firms, and through identification, the willingness to engage in…
Entrepreneurial families in business across generations, contexts and cultures
Albert James, Elias Hadjielias, Maribel Guerrero, Allan Discua Cruz, Rodrigo BascoThis article is the editorial for the special issue on “Entrepreneurial Families in Business Across Generations, Contexts and Cultures”. We aim to develop a road map that…
Advancing the multidimensional approach to family business professionalization
Gülçin PolatAlthough it has been implicitly or explicitly assumed that family business professionalization is indeed a multidimensional construct, there has been a tendency to confine…
No hard feelings? Non-succeeding siblings and their perceptions of justice in family firms
Ilse Matser, Jelle Bouma, Erik VeldhuizenFamily farms, in which business and family life are intricately interwoven, offer an interesting context for better understanding the interdependence between the family…
Modelling the knowledge transfer process between founder and successor in Vietnamese family businesses succession
Robin Bell, Thanh Trung PhamThe transfer of knowledge has been identified as an important part of the family business succession process. This paper examines the knowledge transfer process from the…
Next-generation leadership development: a management succession perspective
Joseph Kie Kuong Tang, Wan Sabri HussinThis research study focusses on the succession challenges in small-medium outboard marine businesses of Malaysian Chinese family ownership. The founder-owners face…
The role of the family council and protocol in planning the succession process in family firms
Cláudia Matias, Mário FrancoThe main objective of this study is to understand the role that family council and protocol can have in the planning process of family companies.
Career development and affective commitment: a comparative study of family and nonfamily businesses
Emil Knezović, Nedžla GredaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is a difference in career development programs between family and nonfamily companies. Moreover, the paper…
The systematization knowledge of articles adherent to familiness, entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity
Ismael Luiz dos Santos, Sidnei Vieira Marinho, Ruan Carlos dos SantosFamily businesses gain notoriety in academic research because they have peculiarities found only in this type of organization, and it is because of these attributes that…
How does a business family manage its wealth? A family office perspective
Elena Rivo-López, Mónica Villanueva-Villar, Guillermo Suárez-Blázquez, Francisco Reyes-SantíasThe purpose of this paper is to find throughout history examples of wealth management of a family or business families that can be assimilated into the current concept of…
Retaining the adolescent workforce in family businesses
Richard Telling, Philip John GouldingThe purpose of this study is to critically explore the linkage between adolescent work, parent–child relationships and offspring career choice outcomes in a family…
Family entrepreneurial resilience – an intergenerational learning approach
Anita Zehrer, Gabriela LeißThe purpose of this paper is to explore leadership succession in families in business. Although there is a vast amount of research on leadership succession, no attempt has…
Embeddedness and entrepreneurial traditions: Entrepreneurship of Bukharian Jews in diaspora
Maria Elo, Leo-Paul DanaThe purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurship traditions evolve in diaspora.
Family equity as a transgenerational mechanism for entrepreneurial families
Philipp Bierl, Nadine H. KammerlanderThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the process of family equity creation and its role for transgenerational entrepreneurship.
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2011Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr. Claire Seaman
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