Recently added articles from Family Business Review:
Understanding the Noneconomic-Motivated Behavior in Family Firms: An Introduction
Jun 01, 2008; Klein, Sabine B; Kellermanns, Franz W ... Introduction Family firm research derives its justification from the underlying assumption that this type of organization is subject to influence from the family, which makes it a unique organizational form (e.g., Astrachan, 2003; Chua, Chrisman, & Sharma, 1999). Recent research has ...
Family Orientation: Individual-Level Influences on Family Firm Outcomes
Jun 01, 2008; Lumpkin, G T; Martin, Wendy; Vaughn, Marsha ... The premise of this article is that to understand how family affects business, the issue of how individual family members relate to the family must also be addressed. To that end, we propose family orientation (FO) to assess the extent to which individuals perceive and value family involvement ....
Emotional Returns and Emotional Costs in Privately Held Family Businesses: Advancing Traditional Business Valuation
Jun 01, 2008; Astrachan, Joseph H; Jaskiewicz, Peter ... This article introduces a formula to assess the total value of privately held family businesses from the owner's perspective. It is argued that the total value of a business is not only composed of its financial worth and private benefits, as is usually assumed by traditional financial theory, ...
Determinants of the Internationalization Pathways of Family Firms: An Examination of Family Influence
Jun 01, 2008; Graves, Chris; Thomas, Jill ... Internationalization is recognized as a valuable strategy for organizations' growth and expansion; however, little is known about the internationalization behavior of family firms. Using stage model theory, the internationalization processes of eight family firms from their foundation to the ...
Knowledge Integration and Dynamic Organizational Adaptation in Family Firms
Jun 01, 2008; Chirico, Francesco; Salvato, Carlo ... The speed of change in competitive environments has prompted firms to develop processes directed at enabling organizational adaptation. This is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities. We focus on a particular form of business organization, that is, the family firm. Specifically, we ...
Factors Preventing Intra-Family Succession
Jun 01, 2008; De Massis, Alfredo; Chua, Jess H; Chrisman, James J ... 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 intrafamily succession from occurring. Based on a review and analysis of the literature, this article presents a preliminary ...