Showing papers in "Journal of Family Business Strategy in 2020"

TL;DR: In this article, a multidisciplinary systematic literature review is used to collect, organize and structure current knowledge on non-family CEOs in family firms and propose a research agenda by engaging in "gap-spotting" and "assumption-challenging".

TL;DR: The authors focus on the experiences and practices of owners/managers of family businesses, and apply phenomenography, an interpretive methodology, to capture variations in how owners understand and practice resilience in longstanding Australian and Italian family wineries.

TL;DR: This article found that family-specific barriers are intertwined with three types of motivation, i.e., extrinsic, intrinsic, and ethical, to predict the presence of daughters in high positions in family businesses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the very definition of family is challenged by considering socio-legal, socio-biological, and role-based ways of defining families, and the authors suggest critical ways to research value and worth beyond the financial wealth-socioemotional wealth trade-off.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined 1436 family and non-family firms over an eight-year period to show that ownership structure and age drive CSR engagement, and they found that as family firms age, they become more selective and invest less heavily in CSR activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the turnover intentions of different groups of non-family employees in family-owned and nonfamily-owned firms, and found that turnover intention of blue-collar workers with leadership responsibility are lower when they are employed in family owned firms than white-collared workers without leadership responsibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between family-related factors in family owned businesses and the level of business legality, which is a key dimension of corporate social responsibility, surprisingly neglected despite its business and social relevance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how distinct configurations of family firms based on family ownership, family management, and family firm life cycle stage affect the likelihood of diversified acquisitions using on a hand-collected dataset including 404 strategic acquisitions made by 211 German family firms between 2010 and 2016, revealing that high family ownership is linked to a long-term perspective on and respectively extended socioemotional wealth preferences in acquisition decisions.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated complex relationships among various socio-emotional wealth goals in the context of family firm diversification and found that intra-family succession intention and emotional attachment have differential (inconsistent) effects on a family firm's diversification.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon Adam Smith's classic arguments from An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations and The theory of the moral sentiments to develop a normative theory of decision-making in family business that balances the pursuit of self- and other-regarding interests.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether and how signaling occurs in family businesses' intra-family CEO successor selection process and derive several propositions that they integrate into a conceptual model and discuss the implications of their findings for theory and practice in the family and the non-family business contexts.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual investigation of the relationship between organizational identity and strategy in family firms is presented, focusing on how heterogeneity of family firms' organizational identities influences, and is affected by, strategic decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the determinants of an individual's intention to start up a new venture that involves family members were analyzed based on the family embeddedness perspective and the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the number of individuals in a family household and the intention of starting a family business.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that family and non-family firms differ in their social exchange systems and that the fit between the prevalent social exchange system and three types of job benefits (i.e., job benefits of care, status, and life quality) offered to employees influences the extent to which job benefits affect employee satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between direct and indirect forms of nepotism where the former is based on simple family preferment and the latter based upon demonstrated competence in an occupational field.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a conceptual model that leverages the concept of family embeddedness and intertwines it with career processes and outcomes, and propose several avenues for future research for family business and career scholars.

TL;DR: This article examined the inclusion of family business in the curricula of economics doctoral programs in the United States and Sweden as well as professors' and textbook authors' views and research on family business and concluded that family business is excluded from core economic theory due to a lack of paradigmatic pluralism, axiomatic incompatibility, path dependency, institutional bias and data constraints.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether and how boards' task conflict impacts boards' control and advisory tasks, as well as to what extent these relationships vary with different degrees of boards' openness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the contingency effect of sales internationalization strategy on the relationship between family firm status and employee downsizing and found that the negative effect of family firms status on downsizing is mitigated at higher levels of export intensity, global focus and when export is done directly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of foundation purpose (family versus charitable foundation), stock market listing, and family involvement in the performance of a family-owned firm versus a non-family-owned one.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of kinship and family on preferential benefits in family-controlled and non-family-controlled firms has been investigated, highlighting a central role for ambivalence, particularly at times of succession.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a qualitative inductive study and gave voice to representatives of 16 Finnish listed family firms of varying size and industry to understand critical factors affecting listed family firm decision-making and behavior.