{"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}
{"title":"Family Involvement, Governmental Connections, and IPO Underpricing of SMEs in China","authors":"Jie Yang, Jieqiong Ma, D. Doty","doi":"10.1177/0894486520905180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520905180","url":null,"abstract":"This study draws on institutional theory to explore the relationship between family involvement, governmental connections, and initial public offering (IPO) underpricing in China. We explore these relationships using a sample of 577 manufacturing firms listed on the small and medium enterprises board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange over a 10-year period (2004-2014). In contrast with previous literature, we found that Chinese family firms tend to exhibit less IPO underpricing than nonfamily firms. In addition, we found family members’ political ties enhance the negative relationship between family involvement and IPO underpricing. In contrast, state ownership mitigates the above relationship.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"175 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520905180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48593169","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 Review in 2020: Focus on the Family","authors":"G. Tyge Payne","doi":"10.1177/0894486520904460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520904460","url":null,"abstract":"It’s the year 2020 and I am confronted by the reality of our fast-paced modern world. On a daily basis, we see new breakthroughs in terms of infrastructure, systems, and technology that exceed even the most forwardthinking visionaries. As a scholar of business organizations, it is easy to get caught up in these advancements, and the speed with which they occur. Indeed, the issues of time, pace, innovation, and flexibility are among the most important issues for today’s businesses. Despite the many achievements of society and the increasing speed of technological advancements, we still have significant issues and persistent problems that are more “human” in nature. With this new year, and its futuristic-sounding designation, I am reminded that the most important matters in our lives, both personal and professional, revolve around people and the relationships we have with each other. And, relevant to our field, I would argue that the most central people in each of our lives are family members. So, despite the ever-changing, “fast pace of this modern age,” our focus should continue to be on the people and relationships with which we share our lives—most notably and more specifically—the family. Such a suggestion is, with regard to the many contributors to Family Business Review (FBR), somewhat moot because all of us, to a greater or lesser extent, believe that the family is an essential component of the global business economy and worthy of scholarly consideration. However, I believe we can collectively do more by focusing more on the human aspect of business relationships, both within and between families and businesses. Indeed, as I look both backward and forward with regard to FBR, I am convinced that our field is uniquely positioned to influence people’s lives for the better by specifically and intentionally shedding new light on family relationships—including intra-family and family to nonfamily, inside and outside of organization boundaries—and their intersection with business. With this editorial, I accomplish two things and hope to accomplish a third. First, in hindsight, I provide an overview of FBR for the past year (2019), which includes providing some key metrics that help convey where we stand currently. Second, in foresight, I provide some upcoming developments and initiatives that may be of interest to the readership. And, while I cannot see into the future, I am very optimistic about the direction in which FBR is heading. Finally, and I fear I cannot adequately state my feelings, I wish to convey my heartfelt appreciation to the many great people that have contributed to the ongoing success of FBR. It is you—the authors, reviewers, editors, and readers—that make FBR into something that extends beyond the journal into a community . . . into an extended family. It is in this spirit of deep appreciation that I wish to acknowledge the recent loss of Mike Wright, who served on the FBR Advisory Editorial Board. Mike was a long-term support","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"6 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520904460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41841965","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}
Peter Jaskiewicz, Donald O. Neubaum, Alfredo De Massis, Daniel T. Holt
{"title":"The Adulthood of Family Business Research Through Inbound and Outbound Theorizing","authors":"Peter Jaskiewicz, Donald O. Neubaum, Alfredo De Massis, Daniel T. Holt","doi":"10.1177/0894486520904461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486520904461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"10 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486520904461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47175922","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":"Intrafamily Conflicts in Family Businesses: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Agenda for Future Research","authors":"Aleš Kubíček, O. Machek","doi":"10.1177/0894486519899573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486519899573","url":null,"abstract":"Through a systematic literature review, we assess the current state of research on intrafamily conflicts in family firms, systematize the findings, and outline avenues for future research. Based on a review of 88 studies, we develop an input–process–output framework to synthesize input, process, output, and context variables and identify research gaps. The review contributes to the family business literature by bridging the family business and intragroup conflict literature, considering multiple levels of analysis (the individual, family, and firm), and presenting relevant research questions.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"194 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0894486519899573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47983077","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}