Through a systematic review of 118 peer‐reviewed journal articles published between 1961
and 2017, this article provides an integrative picture of the state of the art of the family firm …

Family farms are exposed to severe economic, political, social and ecological changes. To
enable intra-family succession and to safeguard the long-term survival of the farm, farming …

Structural equation modeling (SEM) has become a mainstream method in many fields of
business research, but its use in family business research remains in its infancy. This lag in …

Collaborative innovation can boost family firms' innovation performance by enabling them to
tackle their resource constrains and tap into knowledge, financial capital, technology, and …

By integrating literature on family functionality, family firms, and socioemotional wealth
(SEW), we develop a theoretical model explaining how family functionality and SEW …

We reason that the intra-family leadership succession phase has distinct characteristics that
render it a peculiar time frame for innovation. However, the incumbent owner-manager's …

Recognition of potentially valuable business opportunities is often the start of
entrepreneurship. The present research focused on entrepreneurial alertness, which has …

Prior research has analyzed R&D spending in family and founder firms. Yet little is known
about the economic and technological importance of innovations in these types of firms …

In entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial exploration and exploitation have been considered
central activities for the survival, growth, and renewal of businesses. In this review we …

Although studies of social networks in family businesses have proliferated into a sizable
literature, the research remains fragmented into disparate strands that lack theoretical …