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This new major work answers the growing global need for a resource that captures and presents a comprehensive overview of the literature in the field of family business. The last three decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in research on family businesses, as institutions have increasingly recognized that family businesses represent the most common form of business organization and a large part of the GDP in most countries. Scholars in the field have started to address critical questions such as: Why do family firms deserve special research attention?; Are family firms really different from other business organizations? If so, how? And, so what?; Is there a shared definition of family firms? And, of family in business?; Are behavioral and governance issues that need attention in ...
Editors' Introduction: Evolution and Scope of Family Business Studies
Lists such as The world's oldest family firms or the Henokiens confirm that some family enterprises were founded several generations ago. Nevertheless, systematic research on family firms is a relatively new phenomenon. The first dissertation on family firms by Grant Calder (1953) focused on the management problems of small manufacturing firms. A few articles or books on succession (Barnes & Hershon, 1976; Christensen, 1953; Trow, 1961), nepotism (Ewing, 1965), and conflict (Levinson, 1971) appeared in the next two decades. The 1983 special issue of Organization Dynamics signaled the existence of a small community of family firm researchers.
As with all new fields, the first few pioneering years were exploratory as a handful of scholars and ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Scope, Boundaries, and Impact of Family Business
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Definitional Issues
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1. Methodological Issues and Considerations in Studying Family Businesses
Wendy Handler
1989
Family Business Review
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2. The Family Business: Toward Definitional Clarity
Reginald Litz
1995
Family Business Review
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3. Family Firm Research: The Need for a Methodological Rethink
Paul Westhead | Marc Cowling
1998
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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4. Defining the Family Business by Behavior
Jess Chua | James Chrisman | Pramodita Sharma
1999
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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5. The F-PEC Scale of Family Influence: Construction, Validation, and Further Implication for Theory
Sabine Klein | Joseph Astrachan | Kosmas Smyrnios
2005
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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Economic and Social Impact of Family Enterprises
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Melissa Shanker | Joseph Astrachan
1996
Family Business Review
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7. The Prevalence of Family Business from a Household Sample
Ramona Heck | Elizabeth Trent
1999
Family Business Review
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8. Corporate Ownership Around the World
Rafael Porta | Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes | Andrei Shleifer
1999
The Journal of Finance
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Overview of the Field
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9. Family-Owned Businesses: An Emerging Field of Inquiry
Barbara Hollander | Nancy Elman
1988
Family Business Review
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10. Theoretical Foundations for Family-Owned Business: A Conceptual and Research-based Paradigm
Max Wortman
1994
Family Business Review
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11. Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory of the Family Firm
James Chrisman | Jess Chua | Pramodita Sharma
2005
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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12. The Practice-Driven Evolution of Family Business Education
Pramodita Sharma | Frank Hoy | Joseph Astrachan | Matti Koiranen
2007
Journal of Business Research
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James Chrisman | Franz Kellermanns | Kam Chan | Kartono Liano
2010
Family Business Review
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14. The Adolescence of Family Firm Research: Taking Stock and Planning for the Future
Eric Gedajlovic | Michael Carney | James Chrisman | Franz Kellermanns
2012
Journal of Management
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15. Worlds Apart? Rebridging the Distance Between Family Science and Family Business Research
Albert James | Jennifer Jennings | Rhonda Breitkreuz
2012
Family Business Review
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16. The Landscape of Family Business Outcomes: A Summary and Numerical Taxonomy of Dependent Variables
Andy Yu | G.T. Lumpkin | Ritch Sorenson | Keith Brigham
2012
Family Business Review
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Volume II: The Business Family
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Birth of a Business
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17. The Pervasive Effects of Family on Entrepreneurship: Toward a Family Embeddedness Perspective
Howard Aldrich | Jennifer Cliff
2003
Journal of Business Venturing
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18. Are Family Firms Born or Made? An Exploratory Investigation
Jess Chua | James Chrisman | Erick Chang
2004
Family Business Review
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19. Spousal Support and Work–Family Balance in Launching a Family Business
Clinton Gudmunson | Sharon Danes | James Werbel | Johnben Loy
2009
Journal of Family Issues
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Leon Schjoedt | Erik Monsen | Allison Pearson | Tim Barnett | James Chrisman
2013
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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Family as a Resource for Business
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21. A Unified Systems Perspective of Family Firm Performance
Timothy Habbershon | Mary Williams | Ian MacMillan
2003
Journal of Business Venturing
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22. Managing Resources: Linking Unique Resources, Management, and Wealth Creation in Family Firms
David Sirmon | Michael Hitt
2003
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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23. The Role of Family in Family Firms
Marianne Bertrand | Antoinette Schoar
2006
Journal of Economic Perspectives
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24. The Development of Organizational Social Capital: Attributes of Family Firms
Jean-Luc Arregle | Michael Hitt | David Sirmon | Philippe Very
2007
Journal of Management Studies
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25. Toward a Theory of Familiness: A Social Capital Perspective
Allison Pearson | Jon Carr | John Shaw
2008
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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26. Family Capital of Family Firms: Bridging Human, Social, and Financial Capital
Sharon Danes | Kathryn Stafford | George Haynes | Sayali Amarapurkar
2009
Family Business Review
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27. Exploring the Concept of Familiness: Introducing Family Firm Identity
Thomas Zellweger | Kimberly Eddleston | Franz Kellermanns
2010
Journal of Family Business Strategy
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28. Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
Vikas Mehrotra | Randall Morck | Jungwook Shim | Yupana Wiwattanakantang
2013
Journal of Financial Economics
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Family Foundations
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29. The Impact of Family Dynamics on Structure and Process in Family Foundations
Kelin Gersick | Ivan Lansberg | John Davis
1990
Family Business Review
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Razvan Lungeanu | John Ward
2012
Family Business Review
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Nepotism
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31. Is Nepotism Good or Bad? Types of Nepotism and Implications for Knowledge Management
Peter Jaskiewicz | Klaus Uhlenbruck | David Balkin | Trish Reay
2013
Family Business Review
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Next Generation
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32. Socialization Patterns of Successors in First- to Second-Generation Family Businesses
Ercilia García-Álvarez | Jordi López-Sintas | Pilar Gonzalvo
2002
Family Business Review
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33. Leadership Transfer and the Successor's Development in the Family Firm
Katiuska Cabrera-Suárez
2005
The Leadership Quarterly
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Women
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34. Research on Women in Family Firms: Current Status and Future Directions
Rocio Jimenez
2009
Family Business Review
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Volume III: The Family Business
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Systems
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35. Adaptation, Survival, and Growth of the Family Business: An Integrated Systems Perspective
Peter Davis | Douglas Stern
1980
Human Relations
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36. Bivalent Attributes of the Family Firm
Renato Tagiuri | John Davis
1996
Family Business Review
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37. Studying the Family Enterprise Holistically: Evidence for Integrated Family and Business Systems
Rodrigo Basco | María José
2009
Family Business Review
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Values and Culture
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38. Culture and Continuity in Family Firms
W. Dyer
1988
Family Business Review
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39. Sins of the Father's Firm: Exploring Responses to Inherited Ethical Dilemmas in Family Business
Reginald Litz | Nick Turner
2013
Journal of Business Ethics
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Goals
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40. On the Goals of Successful Family Companies
Renato Tagiuri | John Davis
1992
Family Business Review
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Josip Kotlar | Alfredo De Massis
2013
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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Strategies
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42. The Special Role of Strategic Planning for Family Businesses
John Ward
1988
Family Business Review
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43. A Farewell to the Business: Championing Exit and Continuity in Entrepreneurial Family Firms
Carlo Salvato | Francesco Chirico | Pramodita Sharma
2010
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development: An International Journal (Special Issue: Entrepreneurial Families and Family Firms)
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44. Portfolio Entrepreneurship in Family Firms: A Resource-Based Perspective
Philipp Sieger | Thomas Zellweger | Robert Nason | Eric Clinton
2011
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
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Thomas Zellweger | Robert Nason | Mattias Nordqvist
2012
Family Business Review
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46. Corporate Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses: Past Contributions and Future Opportunities
Alexander McKelvie | Aaron McKenny | G.T. Lumpkin | Jeremy Short
2013
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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47. Internationalization of Family Firms
Zulima Fernández | María Nieto
2013
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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Performance
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48. Founding-Family Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from the S&P 500
Ronald Anderson | David Reeb
2003
The Journal of Finance
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49. Are Family Firms Really Superior Performers?
Danny Miller | Isabelle Le Breton-Miller | Richard Lester | Albert Cannella
2007
Journal of Corporate Finance
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50. The Bind That Ties: Socioemotional Wealth Preservation in Family Firms
Luis Gomez-Mejia | Cristina Cruz | Pascual Berrone | Julio De Castro
2011
The Academy of Management Annals
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51. Financial Performance of Family Firms
Raphael Amit | Belén Villalonga
2013
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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Volume IV: Governance and Behavioral Issues in Family Businesses
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Governance
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52. Agency Relationships in Family Firms: Theory and Evidence
William Schulze | Michael Lubatkin | Richard Dino | Ann Buchholtz
2001
Organization Science
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53. Corporate Governance and Competitive Advantage in Family – Controlled Firms
Michael Carney
2005
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
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54. The Reflexive Dynamics of Institutionalization: The Case of the Family Business
Leif Melin | Mattias Nordqvist
2007
Strategic Organization
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55. Governing the Family Enterprise: Practices, Performance and Research
Kelin Gersick | Neus Feliu
2013
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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Succession
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56. Managing Continuity in the Family-Owned Business
Richard Beckhard | W. Dyer
1983
Organizational Dynamics
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Ivan Lansberg
1988
Family Business Review
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58. Succession in Family Business: A Review of the Research
Wendy Handler
1994
Family Business Review
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Bruno Dyck | Michael Mauws | Frederick Starke | Gary Mischke
2002
Journal of Business Venturing
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60. Toward an Integrative Model of Effective FOB Succession
Isabelle Le Breton-Miller | Danny Miller | Lloyd Steier
2004
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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Professionalization
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61. Professional Management in Family Businesses: Toward an Extended Understanding
Annika Hall | Mattias Nordqvist
2008
Family Business Review
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Alex Stewart | Michael Hitt
2012
Family Business Review
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Human Resource (HR) Issues
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63. The Determinants of Executive Compensation in Family-Controlled Public Corporations
Luis Gomez-Mejia | Martin Larraza-Kintana | Marianna Makri
2003
Academy of Management Journal
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64. Faster Route to the CEO Suite: Nepotism or Managerial Proficiency?
Carlo Salvato | Alessandro Minichilli | Raffaella Piccarreta
2012
Family Business Review
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Behavioral Issues
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65. Four Bases of Family Business Successor Commitment: Antecedents and Consequences
Pramodita Sharma | P. Irving
2005
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
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66. Conflicts in Family Firms: The Good and the Bad
D'Lisa McKee | Timothy Madden | Franz Kellermanns | Kimberly Eddleston
2013
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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67. Trust and Family Businesses
Lloyd Steier | Miriam Muethel
2014
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business
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