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Are family firms green?
This study examines environmental management practices of 1690 family and nonfamily firms from 29 countries and 19 industrial sectors over an 8-year...
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Family governance practices and the minimum required rate of return in privately held family firms
This paper examines the relationship between the family governance evolutionary stages and the rate of return required by family businesses’...
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Governments’ new policy frequency and firms’ performance in an emerging industry: the difference between family and non-family firms
We examine how new policy frequency affects performance in the new-energy automobile companies from the industry’s inception to the present in China...
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Buddhist leaders and family firms’ acquisition behavior
Family firms are generally reluctant to participate in acquisitions because of the aversion to socioemotional wealth loss. This work on family firms...
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The role of culture in family firms
Although family firms are ubiquitous, their prevalence displays major geographic disparities and their performance differs across regions. We review...
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Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions
Digital innovation, i.e. the creation of products and services, processes, or business models on the basis of digital technology, represents a new...
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Negative Acts Within Family Firms
Various types of behaviors that can be deviant, dysfunctional, and damaging are reviewed, focusing on behaviors that are perpetrated by individuals...
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Detecting the key role of the family in explaining corporate heritage use in family firms
This paper looks at the socioemotional wealth (SEW) priorities to reveal how family involvement in the firms affects their use of heritage as a...
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Does family ownership reduce exploratory innovation in family firms? The moderating role of the generational stage
Existing literature suggests that family ownership (FO) reduces exploratory innovation (ERI). Contrary to this conventional view, some family firms...
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Dysfunction and Deviance Across Family Firms Varying Reflections of the Dark Side
This book considers the differential occurrence and impact of deviance and dysfunction on family firms. The author argues that how family systems...
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Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order
AbstractFamily firms are one of the most ubiquitous forms of business organizations worldwide. Their survival and growth are thus not only crucial...
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The Resilience of Family Firms During Crisis
The authors of this study aimed to investigate the issue of resilience in family firms during times of crisis. They recognize that a crisis can...
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Does market power drive business model innovation? Evidence from Italian family manufacturing firms
The increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment in which firms operate has strengthened the need to understand how firms react to changing...
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Absorptive capacity in family firms: a systematic literature review
Two-thirds of all businesses worldwide are family firms. For these family firms, absorptive capacity (AC) is key to acquiring, assimilating,...
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Entrepreneurship in family firms: an updated bibliometric overview
Research on entrepreneurship in family firms has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Due to the various theoretical perspectives and...
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Family ownership and control as drivers for environmental, social, and governance in family firms
Sluggish market demand can deteriorate the financial situation of a company and affect a shareholder’s decision to adopt environmental, social, and...
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Family Firms and Local Roots Implications on Economic Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility
This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to studying family firms as a particular type of business strongly embedded in the territories in...
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From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny
Family firms are typically associated with a respected system of values, yet the impact of such values on shareholder reactions remains to be...
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Firms in Territories: The Local Roots of Family Firms
This chapter explores the firm–territory “nexus,” by disentangling the concept of the firm’s local embeddedness. After retracing the evolution of the...
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Transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms: a configurational approach
The aim of this research is to understand why some family firms perform better than others. To do so different configurations are identified based on...
