Business families in times of crises: The backbone of family firm resilience and continuity

A Calabrò, H Frank, A Minichilli… - Journal of Family Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
Against the backdrop of the current Covid-19 pandemic and the related world economic
crisis, we reflect on the role of the business family as a pivotal resource in family firm crisis …

Advancing family business research through modeling nonlinear relationships: Comparing PLS-SEM and multiple regression

R Basco, JF Hair Jr, CM Ringle, M Sarstedt - Journal of Family Business …, 2022 - Elsevier
While nonlinear relationships play an important role in explaining distinct family business
behaviors and outcomes, researchers rarely consider them in their theoretical and statistical …

Responding to digital transformation by external corporate venturing: An enterprising family identity and communication patterns perspective

R Prügl, DI Spitzley - Journal of Management Studies, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Digital transformation increasingly requires activities located outside firm boundaries, for
example via alliances with start‐up companies. Despite this, German Mittelstand firms …

Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy

L Scholes, M Hughes, M Wright, A De Massis… - Journal of Family …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drawing on agency and stewardship theories, we examine how two dimensions of family
governance influence family firm innovation strategy. Specifically, we differentiate between …

Understanding customer engagement in family firms: A conceptual framework

B Rajan, U Salunkhe, V Kumar - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The customer engagement (CE) concept has been presented to encourage active customer
contribution to the firm that can add value to both firms and customers. While this concept is …

Understanding entrepreneurial opportunities through metaphors: A narrative approach to theorizing family entrepreneurship

AD Cruz, E Hamilton, SL Jack - Families in Business, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The concept of opportunity is central to entrepreneurship theory. This article contributes to
theorizing family entrepreneurship across generations by examining how entrepreneurial …

A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship

H Al-Dajani, NP Bang, R Basco, A Calabrò… - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This conceptual, multi-voiced paper aims to collectively explore and theorize family
entrepreneuring, which is a research stream dedicated to investigating the emergence and …

A brief history and a look to the future of family business heterogeneity: An introduction

C Dibrell, E Memili - The Palgrave handbook of heterogeneity among …, 2019 - Springer
With family business heterogeneity entering the family business vernacular at the turn of the
century, there have been increasing calls to study within family businesses and to move …

Heterogeneity in family firms: contextualising the adoption of family governance mechanisms

R Arteaga, A Escribá-Esteve - Journal of Family Business …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This research is aimed to better understand what characteristics of family firms
create a context in which family governance systems are more frequently adopted …

Navigation of the paradoxical landscape of the family business

M McAdam, E Clinton, C Dibrell - … Small Business Journal, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this special issue is to enhance knowledge and understanding of the distinctive,
paradoxical landscape of the family business. In particular, it investigates the strategies used …