Cristina Bettinelli, Elena Lissana, Mara Bergamaschi, Alfredo De Massis
{"title":"Identity in Family Firms: Toward an Integrative Understanding","authors":"Cristina Bettinelli, Elena Lissana, Mara Bergamaschi, Alfredo De Massis","doi":"10.1177/08944865221113675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221113675","url":null,"abstract":"To take stock of the literature on identity in family firms (IFF), we examine 122 journal articles published between 2006 and 2020. We then develop a thematic map to help scholars understand the structure of IFF studies and the direction that IFF research is taking. Providing a consistent vocabulary and categorization, the thematic map serves to strengthen the IFF conceptualization and locates potential ambiguities and fragmentation. Thereafter, we analyze the antecedents, outcomes, and contingencies of the different themes identified. Drawing on this foundation, we identify gaps and suggest new directions and stimuli for future research.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"383 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48503260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights From the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Elias Hadjielias, M. Hughes, L. Scholes","doi":"10.1177/08944865221113136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221113136","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on 62 interviews with 23 family businesses in Cyprus concerning the 2013–2018 (Eurozone) debt crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, this study offers new knowledge on why and how family social capital reconfigures during external crises to support survivability. The findings reveal new psychological and situational mechanisms motivating structural and relational changes in family social capital during crises. However, we find nuances and complexities acting on the motives and content of these changes, attuned to the type of external crisis that the family business faces. We contribute a context-sensitive theory of family social capital’s reconfiguration during external crises.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"275 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43829468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective","authors":"Maarten de Groot, Oli R. Mihalache, T. Elfring","doi":"10.1177/08944865221105334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221105334","url":null,"abstract":"Despite significant discussion surrounding the benefits of family social capital in family business research, precisely how it is built and maintained by enterprise families remains unclear. To explore how and when family governance practices can avoid the decay of enterprise family social capital, we examine the mediating role of family identity and the significance of both generational and business ownership. Testing of our moderated mediation framework using data from 175 enterprise families globally suggests that family governance can stimulate family social capital by strengthening family identity. We also find a negative moderating role for business ownership in this indirect relationship.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"306 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48091810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Randolph, Benjamin N. Alexander, K. Madison, F. Barbera
{"title":"When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda","authors":"R. Randolph, Benjamin N. Alexander, K. Madison, F. Barbera","doi":"10.1177/08944865221100374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221100374","url":null,"abstract":"Although family businesses and social enterprises are typically examined as distinct organizational forms, research in both domains recognizes the significant influence of family on organizational goals. Our cross-disciplinary review of 104 articles, published in 50 journals between 1996 and 2020, capitalizes on this family connection and synthesizes the varied ways family influence has been examined in extant literature. Our review considers the role of the family in shaping social missions and directing social value while also emphasizing the importance of community stakeholders. Our findings provide a foundation for understanding the dynamic role of family influence across domains and enhancing interdisciplinary learning.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"219 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43241293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms","authors":"P. Marqués, A. Bikfalvi, Francesc Busquet","doi":"10.1177/08944865221098316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221098316","url":null,"abstract":"A critical aspect for the continuity of family businesses (FB) is the existence of willing successors. In this article, we use the imprinting theory to ground an explanation of how the family imprinting process shapes siblings’ willingness to become a successor in the FB. We stylize three family imprinting types based mainly on different family motivations: the FB-centric, the entrepreneurship-centric, and the free-will-centric. The uniqueness of this approach is that it offers an imprinting-based process model capable of explaining the origins of homogeneity and heterogeneity in succession willingness at both the inter- and the intra-family levels.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"246 - 274"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48423027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Azouz, Nicolas Antheaume, Brigitte Charles-Pauvers
{"title":"Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience","authors":"Ali Azouz, Nicolas Antheaume, Brigitte Charles-Pauvers","doi":"10.1177/08944865221095323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221095323","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growing interest in resilience in the family business context, little attention has been devoted to understanding the influence of religion on the way business families respond to adverse environments. We use a unique ethnography of a Middle Eastern faith-led family firm to investigate how religiosity influences the way the business family resists and rebounds from environmental shocks. We identify religious role expectations as a pivotal driver of particularistic responses in family firms to advance a religious-based foundation for business family resilience.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"184 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44456713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Expansion and Firm Growth in Domestic Markets: Family Versus Non-Family Firms","authors":"Fabio Zona, M. Bannò, G. Coller","doi":"10.1177/08944865221084423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221084423","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the effects of international expansion on domestic growth in family firms (FFs) versus non-FFs. Integrating international business research into socioemotional wealth (SEW) theory, we argue that FFs seek to compensate for SEW losses (as implied by foreign direct investments) with SEW gains (associated with domestic growth). We claim that FFs are less prone to substitute home businesses with foreign activities and more likely to move back resources to foster domestic growth. Geographical diversification and modes of entry foster FFs’ domestic growth to an even greater extent. A test conducted on Italian firms supports these hypothesized effects.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"159 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49444761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keith H. Brigham, Cristina Cruz Serrano, Nadine H. Kammerlander, J. Kotlar
{"title":"Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue","authors":"Keith H. Brigham, Cristina Cruz Serrano, Nadine H. Kammerlander, J. Kotlar","doi":"10.1177/08944865221083075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865221083075","url":null,"abstract":"We are honored to present the fourth Review Issue of Family Business Review (FBR). In 2016, FBR Editors Jeremy C. Short, Pramodita Sharma, Thomas Lumpkin, and Allison W. Pearson launched a series of special issues in FBR to track and understand the fast evolution of family business research produced since the early 1970s. With more than 2,000 family business articles published in the 1990s (Sharma, 2015), and more than 4,000 articles published between 2010 and 2014, they anticipated that the 2020s “would likely yield over 8,000 new peer-reviewed journal articles on family business” (Short et al., 2016, p. 11). Based on the Scopus database at the time we write this editorial (January 2022), we now found 20,041 document results containing the keyword “family business.” Clearly, as it stands, scholarly production on the subject has further grown, accelerating even beyond those ambitious expectations made just 5 years ago. This fast-growing trend raised the need to organize an increasingly diversified body of knowledge and shape the production of new knowledge in a way that adds and extends on what has been done before, to ultimately favor knowledge accumulation. Looking back to the previous FBR Review Issues offers us a privileged opportunity to reflect on the collective contribution that this stream of work has generated so far. Indeed, by screening and comparing the past FBR Review Issues, we found a wealth of interesting insights that we believe can yield precious directions for the future. In the editorial article of the inaugural FBR Special Issue, the Editors found indications that research on “family business is on the threshold of its next era” (Short et al., 2016, p. 12). The review articles contained in that issue outlined several promising directions to further and enrich family business scholarship, and the Editors further pointed to the promise of further reviews that look, for example, into specific methods and theories used in family business research, as well as cross-disciplinary approaches that bridge family business research with other fields such as family sciences, history, sociology, religious studies, anthropology, and psychology. Articles in this first FBR Review Issue elaborate on topics such as succession, philanthropy, governance from an agencyand steward-based perspective, exploration and exploitation, entrepreneurship, and empirical trends in family firm research. In the second FBR Review Issue, Editors Daniel T. Holt, Allison W. Pearson, Tyge Payne, and Pramodita Sharma continued to build on this legacy (Holt et al., 2018), placing their attention to the opportunities for cross-pollination between family business scholarship and the broadly diversified domains of management research. In a sense, this Editorial article captures the growing interest of family business researchers to move from the sidelines to a more central and foundational position in mainstream management research, offering several promising ways to ful","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"6 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49379345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vittoria Magrelli, P. Rovelli, Carlotta Benedetti, Ruth Überbacher, Alfredo De Massis
{"title":"Generations in Family Business: A Multifield Review and Future Research Agenda","authors":"Vittoria Magrelli, P. Rovelli, Carlotta Benedetti, Ruth Überbacher, Alfredo De Massis","doi":"10.1177/08944865211069781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865211069781","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of generations has become increasingly important in the social science fields to explain diverse phenomena affecting organizations. This is especially true in the family business field where generations are considered a constitutive element. Nevertheless, there is still a limited understanding of generations and the implications of their involvement in family business. We review prior studies on generations by considering different social science fields, which we analyze according to a novel theoretical framework. Building on this framework, and placing particular emphasis on family firms, we identify important knowledge gaps that serve as a springboard for future research.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"15 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49443932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivan Miroshnychenko, Alfredo De Massis, R. Barontini, F. Testa
{"title":"Family Firms and Environmental Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review","authors":"Ivan Miroshnychenko, Alfredo De Massis, R. Barontini, F. Testa","doi":"10.1177/08944865211064409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865211064409","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically reviews and meta-analyzes the environmental performance of family firms. Using a sample of 40,910 firms covering a 12-year period, we conclude that the average effect of family involvement on environmental performance is negative, albeit small. This negative effect is more pronounced in primary studies that measure environmental performance via the environmental operational practices adopted and in those that define family business using the family ownership and management criteria. Our findings suggest that from an agency perspective, and compared with nonfamily firms, the negative view of the environmental performance of family firms prevails over the positive view.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"35 1","pages":"68 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45540104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}