Purpose For family businesses, familiness constitutes a unique bundle of resources and
capabilities resulting from family relationships and influences. The extant literature has …

Using a resource-based theoretical lens we clarify familiness by identifying the dimensions
of this unique family business resource in multigenerational family firms. Using data from …

Purpose–Absorptive capacity (AC) is a key competitive advantage and is defined as the
capacity to absorb knowledge from the environment. Although some studies have examined …

For family firms, the resource-based view (RBV) stresses the relevance of intangible
resources emerging in the unique interaction between the family and the firm, and captured …

Although knowledge integration has been deemed relevant for the development and
survival of family firms, prior studies suggest that the lack of skills to combine and transfer …

Two-thirds of all businesses worldwide are family firms. For these family firms, absorptive
capacity (AC) is key to acquiring, assimilating, transforming, and exploiting new, external …

Familiness, the unique bundle of resources associated with the family's involvement in the
firm, affects firm outcomes; yet, how familiness affects the internal dynamics of the family firm …

Our paper contributes to the overarching question:“How does the family contribute to firm
success?” We add to the nomological net of the familiness construct, by reaching beyond the …

This article will critically analyse the sources and the role of knowledge diversity in informing
causation logics in family firms. Family firms rely on knowledge resources from both intra …

In the search for ways in which the family firm context is unique to organizational science,
the construct of “familiness” has been identified and defined as resources and capabilities …