Journal of Family Business Management
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Building resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: the journey of a small entrepreneurial family firm in Brazil
Priscila Correa Franco Amaral, Angela Da RochaThe present study used a process approach to examine how a small entrepreneurial family business in the tourism industry evolved during different stages of the Covid-19…
Effective business model adaptations in family SMEs in response to the COVID-19 crisis
Sofia Brunelli, Rafaela Gjergji, Valentina Lazzarotti, Salvatore Sciascia, Federico ViscontiThe present paper aims at exploring effective business model adaptations in response to unexpected events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Family businesses navigating the COVID-19 pandemic through a gender perspective: the role of external and internal factors in stimulating dynamic capability development
Dafna Kariv, Luis Cisneros, Florence Guiliani, Rahma ChouchaneThe paper aims to decipher, through intertwined external and internal perspectives, how female and male owners of family businesses (FB) that have been affected by the…
Impact of COVID-19 on family business performance: evidence from listed companies in Germany
Markus Eckey, Sebastian MemmelThe COVID-19 pandemic has hit different industries and firms with widely differing degrees of severity. The authors investigate whether ownership structure (family vs…
Caught in the spider's web: an investigation of dysfunctional behavioural patterns in a family firm
Filippo FerrariDrawing on the theory of goal systems applied to family business this case study focuses on the interdependence between non-economic goals and family goals, in order to…
Exploring women's initiatives for family business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Grisna Anggadwita, Anggraeni Permatasari, Dini Turipanam Alamanda, Werda Bagus ProfityoFamily businesses have contributed significantly to economic growth in various countries, including Indonesia. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reduced the…
Women entrepreneurship in family business: dominant topics and future research trends
Mehmet Bağış, Liridon Kryeziu, Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan, Veland RamadaniThis article examines the dominant research topics that guide the literature on women's entrepreneurship in family businesses.
Family social capital as a driver to leverage challenged transgenerational entrepreneurship
Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Cristina Aragón-Amonarriz, M. Katiuska Cabrera-SuárezThe purpose of the study is to unveil the key role of family social capital (FSC) as a driver for transgenerational entrepreneurship (TE) in the specific contexts of…
Assessing the AI-CRM technology capability for sustaining family businesses in times of crisis: the moderating role of strategic intent
Ranjan Chaudhuri, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Sascha Kraus, Demetris VrontisThis study assesses the capability of artificial intelligence integrated customer relationship management (AI-CRM) technology for sustaining family businesses in times of…
COVID-19 and earnings management: a comparison between Chinese family and non-family enterprises
Md Jahidur Rahman, Jinru Ding, Md Moazzem Hossain, Eijaz Ahmed KhanThe main objective of this study is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on earnings management practices in China using a sample of family and non-family…
Whether family ownership affects the relationship between CSR and EM: evidence from Chinese listed firms
Md Jahidur Rahman, Xinying ZhengThis study explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and earnings management (EM) in China and whether family ownership impacts this relationship.
Cultural alignment and intergenerational succession in family firms: a game-theoretical experiment
Shital Jayantilal, Sílvia Ferreira Jorge, Diogo Lourenço, Anabela Botelho, Tomás M. BañegilThe study aims to investigate the effect of cultural alignment and value congruency between children and founder on intergenerational succession and on the observation of…
The relationship between collaboration, productivity and publications: an empirical analysis in field of family business
Ioannis Kinias, Ilias Kampouris, Stathis PolyzosIt is widely accepted that coauthorship and collaboration promotes intellectual partnerships and improves the quality of publications. This paper examines the relationship…
We are in survival mode: how family-owned small foodservice firms in India responded to the Covid-19 pandemic
Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam, SaurabhKumar Dixit, Partho Pratim SealThe purpose of this paper is to examine the crisis faced, strategies adopted, barriers for recovery and the future outlook by the operators of family-owned small…
Online branding strategies of family SME wineries: a Hungarian-German comparative study
Ivan Paunovic, Nóra Obermayer, Edit KovariBoth Hungary and Germany belong to the old-world wine-producing countries and have long winemaking traditions. This paper aims at exploring and comparing online branding…
Servant leadership and customer OCB: moderation effect of altruistic values amongst family hotels employees
Edem Maxwell Azila-GbettorThe paper investigates the moderating model of servant leadership (SL), customer citizenship behaviour (CCB) and Altruistic Work Value (AWV) among employees of 1-star and…
A manager's stewardship identification in Brazilian family firms: the role of controls' design and procedural justice
Daniel Magalhaes Mucci, Ann Jorissen, Fábio FrezattiThe paper investigates whether a family firm's control context is directly associated with a manager's stewardship attitude or whether this relationship is mediated by the…
The main factors of family harmony in Moroccan family businesses: an exploratory study
Hiba Birgach, Badr HabbaThe purpose of this paper is to explore the main factors of family harmony in Moroccan family businesses.
Impact of leadership gender stereotyping on managing familial conflict, matrimonial strategies, divorce decisions and marital satisfaction in Qatar
Rima Charbaji El-Kassem, Noora Lari, Maitha Al Naimi, Maryam Fahad Al-Thani, Buthaina Al Khulaifi, Noor Khaled Al-ThaniThis study aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of leadership style and gender roles on managing familial conflict (MFC), as well as how such conflict…
Exploring the life cycle of family-owned tourism businesses in maturity
Beatriz Adriana López-Chávez, César Maldonado-AlcudiaThe aim of this paper is to analyze the life cycle of family-owned hotels in the maturity phase from the integration of theoretical models for family-owned tourism businesses.
A theory of venture capital family business: a governance trajectory
Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje BoersThe purpose of this study is to understand venture capital family businesses (VCFBs) governance of portfolio companies through the deal process.
Promoting organizational diversity and preserving socioemotional wealth: can family businesses balance the two?
Arindam DasA key characteristic for a family firm, preservation of socioemotional wealth, may appear to be at conflict with the concept of organizational diversity. The authors…
Encouraging consumer loyalty: the role of family business in hospitality
Cláudia Miranda Veloso, Daniela Magalhães, Bruno Barbosa Sousa, Cicero Eduardo Walter, Marco ValeriThe aim of this paper is to understand the importance of consumer loyalty in the specific context of Hotel Family Business. This study proposes a conceptual model to…
Non-family employee strategic renewal in family firms: the transformational leadership role of family board members and psychological ownership
Tien Dung LuuThe study aims to reveal the strategic renewal (SR) of non-family employees in family small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the effects of transformational board member…
Bankruptcy at family and non-family firms: do they fail differently?
Christine Mitter, Michaela Walcher, Stefan Mayr, Christine DullerFamily firms strive for transgenerational survivability. Thus, bankruptcy is a daunting event. Whether family firms fail for other causes than non-family firms has been…
Effects of parental entrepreneurial performance on the mode of entrepreneurial entry by the next-generation family members: evidence from an emerging economy
Sarah Watiri Muigai, Edward Mungai, S. Ramakrishna VelamuriThe purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of perceived parental entrepreneurial rewards, or PPERs (i.e. the offspring's perception of the degree of parental…
Family firm versus non-family firm: the role of resource orchestration in fast-growing high-tech SMEs
Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Börje Boers, Jim AndersénThis paper strives to understand the role of resource orchestration (RO) in the rapid growth of high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Mapping research on family business in tourism and hospitality: a bibliometric analysis
Shekhar Shekhar, Anjali Gupta, Marco ValeriThis study aims to map the development of research on family business in tourism and hospitality and provides insights into the key contributors, key areas and current…
The association between internal control quality and audit report lag in the French setting: the moderating effect of family directors
Hela Gontara, Imen Khelil, Hichem KhlifThe purpose of the paper is to examine the association between internal control quality (ICQ) and audit report lag (ARL) and to test whether family directors affect the…
How is risk different in family and non-family businesses? – a comparative statistical analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eulalia Santos, Vasco Tavares, Fernando Oliveira Tavares, Vanessa RattenRisk is part of corporate activity and a consequence of the businesses' demands, the market and the changes in companies and their surroundings. The way that risk is…
Understanding the antecedents of family influence in the family firm
Rima M. BizriWhat makes family influence so influential in the family firm? Time and again, research studies point to family influence as a factor that significantly impacts…
The impact of family harmony on family SMEs' performance: the mediating role of information technologies
Vincent Dutot, Francois Bergeron, Andrea CalabròWith the increasing digitalization processes taking place in different industries, the success of family small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) appears to be more under…
Promoting family business in handicrafts through local tradition and culture: an innovative approach
Santus Kumar Deb, P.P. Mohanty, Marco ValeriThe purpose of the study is to investigate the potentiality and dimensions of promoting handicraft family business practices in handicraft as well as the extent to…
Total quality management as driver for internationalization: a case study of a small family firm
Michela Floris, Michela Marongiu, Cinzia Dessi, Angela DettoriThis study investigates the relationship between Total Quality Management (TQM) and internationalization in small family firms, focusing on the role that the dimensions of…
Thriving family businesses in tourism and hospitality: A systematic review and a synthesis of the relevant literature
Mark Anthony Camilleri, Marco ValeriThis contribution appraises previous theoretical underpinnings that are focused on family businesses in tourism and hospitality. It discusses about the opportunities and…
Assessment of the quality of the service perceived in specific contexts of management of a family business
Carla Martins Igreja, Bruno Barbosa Sousa, Tiago Silva, Cláudia Miranda VelosoThe aim of this paper is to apply the SERVQUAL model to evaluate the quality perceived by customers in the context of family hotel management in Portugal. More…
Family members as hybrid owner-managers in family-owned newspaper companies: handling multiple institutional logics
Börje Boers, Thomas AnderssonThis article aims to increase the understanding of the role of individual actors and arenas in dealing with multiple institutional logics in family firms.
Family business successors' motivation and innovation capabilities: the case of Kosovo
Asdren Toska, Veland Ramadani, Léo-Paul Dana, Gadaf Rexhepi, Jusuf ZeqiriThis study aims to investigate the second-generation successors’ motives to join family businesses and their ability to generate innovation within them.
Family-owned banks in Jordan: do they perform better?
Zaid Saidat, Abdel Razzaq Alrababa'a, Claire SeamanFamily ownership is very common for Jordanian businesses, leading to a high level of involvement of family members in company management. There continues to be intense…
Coping mechanisms of Philippine tourism and hospitality family businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a non-parametric approach
Andrea Santiago, Fernando Martin Roxas, John Paolo Rivera, Eylla Laire GutierrezFamily businesses (FB), mostly small-sized, dominate the tourism and hospitality industry (THI), especially in the rural areas. While many would have been used to the…
Family businesses in the tourism industry: a research agenda
Hüseyin Ozan Altın, Ige Pirnar, Engin Deniz Eriş, Ebru GunluThe purpose of this study is to construct a comprehensive review on family businesses in the tourism industry since glocalization and small businesses comprise most of the…
An exploration of the role of intuitive forms of planning in the succession process: the explanatory power of effectuation theory
Mira Bloemen-Bekx, Frank Lambrechts, Anita Van GilsThis study explores how and when intuitive forms of planning can be used in a family firm's succession process.
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…
Family succession, professionalization and internationalization: a study of Brazilian family businesses
Augusto Dalmoro Costa, Aurora Carneiro Zen, Everson dos Santos SpindlerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between family succession, professionalization and internationalization in family businesses within 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…
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…
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 willing successor: an exploration of grit and situational cues in family firms
Michele N. Medina-Craven, Emily Garrigues Marett, Sara E. DavisThis conceptual paper explores how the activation of the individual-level trait grit can explain variance in successor willingness to take over leadership of the family firm.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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