Based on a review of 217 refereed articles on family business studies, the literature is
organized according to its focus on individual, interpersonal or group, organizational, and …

Goals are a key differentiator between family businesses and non‐family businesses. To
improve understanding of this topic, the authors take stock of what they know about goals in …

Considering the heterogeneity of family firm behaviors as reflecting the values, biases, and
heuristics of individuals, we discuss the implications of the psychological foundations of …

A long–term orientation (LTO) is often associated with family firms, but the LTO construct is
underdeveloped. This paper sets forth a framework for studying LTO in family firms including …

This article provides a review of important trends in the strategic management approach to
studying family firms: convergence in definitions, accumulating evidence that family …

We adopt a generational perspective to investigate entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in family
firms. We test a model that determines how the influence on EO of external factors and …

abstract Two major perspectives can be construed in the literature concerning the nature of
family owned businesses (FOBs). The first implies that these enterprises have unique …

Although research on management succession is a dominant topic in the family business
literature, little systematic attention has been given to the factors that prevent intra-family …

This study describes the structure and trends of the family business literature. We analyze
the content of the papers focused on family firms published in any journal of the categories …

Using the conflict theory lens and insights from the family business literature, we develop a
theoretical model concerning the effects of task, process, and relationship conflict in family …