Cristina Cruz

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make the case for the socioemotional wealth (SEW) approach as the potential dominant paradigm in the family business field and argue that SEW is the most important differentiator of the family firm as a unique entity and helps explain why family firms behave distinctively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how family firms differ from non-family firms along five broad categories of managerial decisions, including management processes, firm strategies, corporate governance, stakeholder relations and business venturing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the environmental performance of family and non-family public corporations between 1998 and 2002, using a sample of 194 U.S. firms required to report their emissions.

TL;DR: While family business research has prominently recognized that family firms are motivated by non-financial factors, the literature has remained relatively silent about whether or not these firms are driven by financial factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors view the contracts of top managers from an integrated agency theory-trust perspective, arguing that two conditions reflecting CEO risk bearing, top management team (TMT) behavioral uncertainty and CEO vulnerability, are negatively related to a CEO's perceptions of TMT benevolence toward him/herself, which in turn influence the protective features of the TMT contracts.