Journal of Family Business Management
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Leadership transition and survival strategies for family-owned SMEs in an emerging economy
Okey Nwuke, Ogechi AdeolaThis study explores the different survival strategies employed by family-owned small and medium-sized businesses in Nigeria. The study delves into the dynamics of ensuring…
Governance characteristics and sustainable longevity of family firms: the role of long-term orientation
Lobna Grissa, Lassaad LakhalThe aim of this research is to study the direct and indirect effects among governance characteristics, long-term orientation and sustainable longevity of family firms.
Gender diversity and corporate financial distress in the Pakistan stock market: the interacting effect of family-controlled companies
Hafiz Muhammad Muien, Sabariah Nordin, Bazeet Olayemi BadruAs the benefit of gender diversity continues to receive significant attention, a holistic investigation of its effect on corporate financial distress (CFD) is lacking…
Ceasing to communicate public family firm identity: the decoupling of internally experienced and externally communicated identities
Börje Boers, Torbjörn Ljungkvist, Olof BrunningeThe purpose of this study is to explore how the family firm identity is affected when it is no longer publicly communicated.
Longevity through emotional intelligence: a relationship marketing approach in family businesses
Hasan Gilani, Jessica Torres Mena, Gokhan AydinThis study aims to explore how emotional intelligence (EI) in members of family businesses can enhance the relationships with the stakeholders and whether adopting a…
Do CEO duality and expertise affect earnings management behavior? The moderating effect of family ownership
Ahmed Atef Oussii, Mohamed Faker KlibiThis study aims to analyze whether chief executive officer (CEO) duality and financial expertise are associated with earnings management to exceed thresholds. It also…
The presence of women in family SMEs' succession process: a conceptual framework guided by gender perspective
Mário Franco, Mayara Nagilla, Margarida RodriguesThis study aims to analyze how the presence of women is seen in family small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) succession process from the successors' perspective.
Psychological contract of employees in family-owned hotels: the role of talent management practices
Mohamed Mousa, Ahmad Arslan, Hala AbdelgaffarThis study aims to analyse how talent management practices in family-owned hotels contribute to their employees' fulfilment of their psychological contract.
Extra-role behaviour of non-family employees in private family firms through job crafting: mediating role of workplace flourishing
Mohammad Rezaur RazzakThe family business literature indicates that non-family employees (NFEs) working in private family firms often feel marginalized effecting their ability to flourish at…
Socioemotional wealth of family firms during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of slack resources
Astrid RudyantoThis study investigates the behaviour of family firms, family management and family ownership regarding their socioemotional wealth (Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)…
Born-again global internationalization in family businesses as a process: a dynamic capabilities perspective in the context of socioemotional wealth
Alexander Kessler, Viktoriya Zipper-WeberBorn-again global internationalization is a rarely researched topic. Especially process-oriented studies are largely missing. In loss modes concerning their socioemotional…
Effect of environmental dynamism on entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the moderating role of informal institutions
Özlem Yildirim-Öktem, Irmak Erdogan, Andrea Calabrò, Osman Sabri KiratliThe aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of environmental dynamism on different EO dimensions in family firms. The authors also examine the moderating role of…
Founder or descendant CEOs, tax avoidance and firms' future risks: the Indonesian evidence
Paulina Sutrisno, Sidharta Utama, Ancella Anitawati Hermawan, Eliza FatimaThis study aims to examine the impact of founder or descendant chief executive officers (CEOs) on the relationship between tax avoidance and firms' future risk. This issue…
Responsible leadership practices in the hospitality sector family businesses: evidence from an emerging market
Mohamed Mousa, Ahmad ArslanThe study aims to find out the extent to which hospitality sector family-owned businesses in Egypt feel committed to responsible leadership practices and subsequently meet…
The influence of the firm on family business branding: the mediator role of the family
Zhibiao Zhang, Peter RowanIt is acknowledged that the firm and the family interact in the family firm system and that family identity can influence family business brand communication through…
Auditor choice and audit fees through the lens of agency theory: evidence from Chinese family firms
Md Jahidur Rahman, Hongtao Zhu, Md Moazzem HossainFrom an agency perspective, the authors investigate whether family ownership and control configurations are systematically associated with a firm's choice of auditor and…
Polygamy and family member relationship on Guinean family business succession planning
Diallo Oury Oury Bailo, Arif Hassan, Suhaimi Bin Mhd Sarif, Anwar Hasan Abdullah OthmanThe aim of the paper is to identify the key factors that affect Guinean family business (FB) succession planning. The study also evaluates the impact of these factors on…
The adoption of codes of ethics in family businesses: theoretical profiles and empirical evaluation
Giorgia Maria D'Allura, Andrea Calabrò, Marco SantangeloThe aim of this paper is to theorize on and empirically extend the understanding of the adoption of codes of ethics within the context of family firms. The authors contend…
Antecedents of psychological ownership among family hotel employees
Edem Maxwell Azila-Gbettor, Robert Jan Blomme, Ben Q. Honyenuga, Ad KilThis paper examines the mediating process of enhancing employees' psychological ownership among family hotel employees.
Leadership styles and sustainable organizational energy in family business: modeling non-compensatory and nonlinear relationships
Hasan Oudah Abdullah, Nadia Atshan, Hadi Al-Abrrow, Alhamzah Alnoor, Marco Valeri, Gül Erkol BayramThis study aims to understand the impact of leadership styles on the sustainability of organizational energy, using the mediator role of organizational ambidexterity in…
Women's roles in family businesses: some empirical evidence from Italy
Angela Dettori, Michela FlorisAs women are still promoted to C-level roles at far lower rates than men, this paper examines whether there is a clear and direct relationship between women's formal roles…
Should I sell part of my family firm? Exploring the drivers of a minority sale
Elias Kurta, Nadine H. Kammerlander, Christopher KhouryThis study aims to extend the research in the field of external investments in family firms. It contributes to the literature by analyzing the drivers of the family firm…
Family governance and firm performance: exploring the intermediate effects of family functioning and competitive advantage
Francesco Barbera, Tim Hasso, Thomas V. SchwarzScholars and practitioners agree that governance practices are at the core of what differentiates family firms from other forms of business. Yet, there is a lack of…
Family dynamics and relationships in female entrepreneurship: an exploratory study
Sunita Dewitt, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Arun Sukumar, Roopa Aruvanahalli Nagaraju, Razieh Sadraei, Fujia LiGiven the recent emergence of China as a dominant economy and internal changes that have led to the encouragement of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial initiatives, this…
Empowerment of women's entrepreneurship in family business through Twitter
Cristina Blanco-Gonzalez-Tejero, Enrique Cano-MarinThe main purpose is to provide a global understanding of the role of women in entrepreneurship and family businesses, enabling the evaluation of the impact and the…
Moroccan family businesses professionalization: benefits and challenges
Badr Habba, Azzeddine Allioui, Farah FarhaneThe purpose of this research is to study the influence of professionalization on Moroccan family businesses and the challenges that hinder its success.
Exploring entrepreneurial qualities for the sustainability of family businesses in Pakistan
Mahwish Jamil, Ahmad Firdause Md Fadzil, Amber Waqar, Mohd Rafi YaacobThe purpose of this study to explore the qualities of the entrepreneur which are required for the sustainability of the family business. The sustainability rate of family…
The mediating effect of family business self-efficacy on parental support and succession intention relationship
Eko SuhartantoDrawing on the social cognitive theory, this research examines the relationship of perceived parental support factors and the next-generation succession intention in the…
Investment policy of Moroccan family businesses in times of crisis: the role of cultural logics, family reputation and imitation effect
Azzeddine Allioui, Badr Habba, Taib Berrada El AziziThe purpose of this research is to study the financial, family, and cultural incidences on the investment policy of unlisted Moroccan family firms passed on to the second…
Related party transactions and earnings management in family firms: the moderating role of board characteristics
Giovanna Gavana, Pietro Gottardo, Anna Maria MoiselloThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of family control on the association between related party transactions (RPTs) and different forms of accrual-based…
A closer look at diversity and performance in family firms
Khadija Mubarka, Nadine H. KammerlanderOwnership structure plays a significant role in determining board demographic diversity. However, it is still unclear how different ownership configurations impact 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…
Blending traditionalism with legalism: a typology of understanding corporate governance systems in Ghanaian Family-owned businesses (FOBs) from a Bourdieusian perspective
Cletus Agyenim-Boateng, Sulemana Iddrisu, James OtiekuThis paper aims to examine the nature of corporate governance systems in Ghanaian Family-owned Businesses (FOBs). Specifically, the study investigates the nature of…
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…
The variation of family business branding across stakeholders: a social identity perspective
Zhibiao Zhang, Peter RowanFamily business brand communication depends on the effect of the family on stakeholders' perception, and the family influences stakeholders differently, raising the…
The interplay between digital social capital and family-owned SME performance: a study of social media business networks
Pattanapong Tiwasing, Yoo Ri Kim, Sukanlaya SawangThis paper aims to examine the relationship between being members of social media business networks and SME performance by comparing business performance between…
Future perspective of socioemotional wealth (SEW) in family businesses
Hamza Smajić, Ramo Palalić, Nisar AhmadThe study provides the emergence and evolution of the socioemotional wealth (SEW) concept in the family business field from 2007 (the inception date) until 2021. To…
Examining the role of gender on family business entrepreneurial intention: influence of government support and technology usage
Sumana Chaudhuri, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Sheshadri Chatterjee, Zahid HussainThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of government support and technology usage on family business entrepreneurial intention. The paper also investigates…
Challenges of rural women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to survive their family entrepreneurship: a narrative inquiry through storytelling
Md. Mizanur Rahman, Leo-Paul Dana, Iqbal Hossain Moral, Nishath Anjum, Md. Saidur RahamanFamily entrepreneurship benefits women because of their economic, family, and social needs. But, as rural women, it is not much easy for them to maintain their family…
Family influence and succession strategies in private businesses at the cusp of leadership change: comparison between family firms and lone founder enterprises
Anna Motylska-Kuzma, Izabela Szymanska, Krzysztof SafinThis paper investigates the impact of family influence measured by the F-PEC scale on private enterprise (both family firms and lone founders) leadership succession strategy.
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.
Involvement of multiple generations in management and internationalization of family firms in Spain: the moderating effect of SEW dimensions
Virginia Blanzo-Mazagatos, Juan Bautista Delgado-García, Jesús P. BarreroThe study aims to analyze for the Spanish context the influence of the involvement of several generations in the firm's management on family firm internationalization. The…
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…
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…
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).
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…
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…
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…
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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2011Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr. Claire Seaman
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