J. Carr, James M. Vardaman, Laura E. Marler, Benjamin D. McLarty, Daniela Blettner
{"title":"Psychological Antecedents of Decision Comprehensiveness and Their Relationship to Decision Quality and Performance in Family Firms: An Upper Echelons Perspective","authors":"J. Carr, James M. Vardaman, Laura E. Marler, Benjamin D. McLarty, Daniela Blettner","doi":"10.1177/0894486520917774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520917774","url":null,"abstract":"We present a model of family firm performance that tests the notion that strategic decision comprehensiveness plays a pivotal role in family business decision quality and performance. With insights derived from upper echelons theory, our model further proposes that two key decision maker traits associated with an individual’s information-gathering process—risk-taking propensity and need for cognition—influence strategic decision comprehensiveness and have indirect effects on both study outcomes. Study results using a time-lagged sample of family firm leaders provide broad support for our proposed model and provide insight into the performance and decision-making heterogeneity present in family firms.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"33 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520917774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43768234","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":"Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business","authors":"M. Nordqvist, W. Gartner","doi":"10.1177/0894486520924856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520924856","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, scholars have intensified the calls for more interdisciplinary approaches toward understanding the motivations, activities, processes, and behaviors of family businesses. Most family business scholars tend to draw upon insights from the management and economics disciplines for both theoretical and methodological guidance in their research (Neubaum, 2018; Payne, 2018; Sharma, 2004). However, the relevance for family business studies of disciplines such as psychology (e.g., Kammerlander & Breugst, 2019; Pieper, 2010; Strike et al., 2018), family sciences (e.g., Combs et al., 2020; Jaskiewicz et al., 2017), history (Colli, 2012; Hjorth & Dawson, 2016), and anthropology (Stewart, 2003) has also been emphasized:","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"122 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520924856","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45954314","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}
Frauke von Bieberstein, Ann‐Kathrin Crede, A. Essl, Andreas Hack
{"title":"Signaling and Stakeholder Honesty: On the Individual and Combined Effects of Owner Family Membership and Religious Affiliation","authors":"Frauke von Bieberstein, Ann‐Kathrin Crede, A. Essl, Andreas Hack","doi":"10.1177/0894486520924301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520924301","url":null,"abstract":"Stakeholder honesty is highly important for managers, for instance, in decisions involving hiring. Due to reciprocity, stakeholders are more likely to be honest if the managers act honestly themselves. However, external stakeholders often cannot observe managers’ actions and instead have to rely on signals. This article examines the effects of two signals—a manager’s owner family membership and religious affiliation—on stakeholder honesty. By conducting an economic experiment and a survey, we find that stakeholders behave more honestly toward family managers compared to nonfamily managers. This effect is reinforced if the family manager is presented as religious.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"265 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520924301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48287373","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":"Founder-Controlled Family Firms, Overconfidence, and Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement: Evidence From Survey Data","authors":"Markus Dick, E. Wagner, Helmut Pernsteiner","doi":"10.1177/0894486520918724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520918724","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on (mostly) medium-sized and unlisted Polish firms, this study explores the influence of the interaction between founder-controlled family firms and managerial overconfidence on corporate social responsibility (CSR). We demonstrate that founder-controlled family firms show low levels of CSR engagement. This suggests that families try to limit CSR activities that could challenge their control and thus their socioemotional endowment. Moreover, overconfident executives in these firms tend to exhibit superior CSR performance. Consequently, the family’s preference for control can be mitigated by overconfident executives who underestimate the family’s control risk and focus on building reputation by acting socially responsible.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"71 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520918724","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45746585","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":"Does Knowing “Who Knows What” Matter for Family Firm Innovation? Insights From Transactive Memory System Theory","authors":"K. Madison, J. Daspit, Emily Garrigues Marett","doi":"10.1177/0894486520912879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520912879","url":null,"abstract":"We extend transactive memory systems theory from psychology to examine the cognitive interdependence of family and nonfamily employees and its effects on family firm innovation. Using triadic data and dispersion modeling, we find that innovation is enhanced when family and nonfamily employees communicate and when they have a shared understanding of “who knows what”; however, we find unexpectedly that the communication effects differ for family and nonfamily employees, hindering the development of shared knowledge perceptions needed for enhanced innovation. We demonstrate the value in applying psychology-based research to family firm investigations and in investigating microfoundations of family firm innovation.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"168 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520912879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41800365","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":"Community Socioemotional Wealth: Preservation, Succession, and Farming in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania","authors":"Nancy B. Kurland, S. Mccaffrey","doi":"10.1177/0894486520910876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520910876","url":null,"abstract":"This study builds theory on socioemotional wealth (SEW) in family firms and, specifically, proposes a new concept, community SEW, that moves SEW beyond the organizational level of analysis to include the community level of analysis. We find that owner-managers of family farms prioritize preservation of farming on fertile land and protection of the farming community in their region over economic and, in some instances, family interests. That is, owner-managers’ SEW includes the community in which the family is embedded. We discuss implications for SEW research.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"244 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520910876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45415900","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":"Family Business Leaders’ Metaphors and Firm Performance: Exploring the “Roots” and “Shoots” of Symbolic Meanings","authors":"Alessandra Tognazzo, Donald O. Neubaum","doi":"10.1177/0894486520910874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520910874","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the complex dynamics when family members with differing perceptions and interpretations of reality jointly lead their family business, this research adopts an epistemic-operative interview technique using Morgan’s images of organization. We explore how family leaders’ root metaphors, which are symbolic frames that help understand individuals’ attitudes and behaviors, are linked to family businesses’ behavior and performance. Analyzing six Italian family hotels, we derive four structures of family symbolic meanings and explain how and why relationships and innovation are mechanisms through which firm performance is related and connected to the offshoots of the meanings of family leaders’ root metaphors.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"130 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520910874","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49394306","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}
Daniela Andreini, Cristina Bettinelli, Giuseppe Pedeliento, Roberta Apa
{"title":"How Do Consumers See Firms’ Family Nature? A Review of the Literature","authors":"Daniela Andreini, Cristina Bettinelli, Giuseppe Pedeliento, Roberta Apa","doi":"10.1177/0894486519890229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486519890229","url":null,"abstract":"This literature review analyzes studies that deal with the meanings that consumers form about firms’ family nature. Through the analysis of 83 papers, we highlight the importance of firms’ family nature from consumers’ perceptual, social, and cultural perspectives, at the micro, meso, and macro levels. Beside the common meanings that consumers attach to firms’ family nature, our review showed that in some cases, firms’ family nature acquired meanings that were deemed to be so important that they eventually provided consumers with self-identification, communitarian identification, and novel market configurations, and even made the family firm the industry’s prototypical organizational form.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"18 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486519890229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43347602","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}
James G. Combs, Kristen K. Shanine, Sarah Burrows, J. Allen, T. Pounds
{"title":"What Do We Know About Business Families? Setting the Stage for Leveraging Family Science Theories","authors":"James G. Combs, Kristen K. Shanine, Sarah Burrows, J. Allen, T. Pounds","doi":"10.1177/0894486519863508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486519863508","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers recently pointed to family science as one avenue for better understanding business families. We submit, however, that leveraging family science will require building on what researchers have already learned, often without the benefit of family science theories. Thus, we review progress from studies that investigate links between business family attributes and family firms and integrate our review with descriptions of family science theories that pertain to each attribute. By pairing what is known about different business family attributes with the appropriate family science theories, our hope is to accelerate efforts to understand the myriad ways business families shape family businesses.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"38 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486519863508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48800404","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":"Managing Family-Related Conflicts in Family Businesses: A Review and Research Agenda","authors":"H. Qiu, M. Freel","doi":"10.1177/0894486519893223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486519893223","url":null,"abstract":"This review examines how family businesses manage family-related conflicts that occur at three interfaces: family-business, family-ownership, and family-business-ownership. We find that work-family conflicts, conflicts of interest, and relationship conflicts are prevalent family-related conflicts. Four conflict management strategies are frequently used to deal with these conflicts: vacillation, domination, separation, and third-party intervention. The popularity of these strategies is influenced by some unique characteristics of family businesses, such as high emotional attachment among family members. By integrating insights from the broader conflict research, paradox and dialectic studies, we develop a research agenda targeted at better connecting family-related conflicts to conflict management strategies.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"113 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486519893223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47672341","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}