... 12 08 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Management succession Small- to medium-sized enterprises Family firms Attachment theory Owner-managers Voluntary retirement Management succession is critical for ensuring...

...Ranjan Chaudhuri; Sheshadri Chatterjee; Katarina Valaskova; Ciro Troise Purpose The dynamic capabilities (DCs) of family firms help to respond to dynamic business environments. Presently, few studies have examined how DCs of family firms could achieve SDGs, especially in the context of economic...

..., it is foreseen that informal family meetings are most effective when family businesses implement formal family governance practices. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses are tested on a sample of 490 family firms using robust ordinary least square estimations. Findings The main findings suggest...

...Torbjörn Ljungkvist; Börje Boers; Christoffer Axell Purpose This study explores how retail family firm managers’ cognitive capabilities are used to enable firm strategy in a context of economic uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a case study using 31 interviews...

...Lucía Garcés-Galdeano; Josip Kotlar; Ana Lucía Caicedo-Leitón; Martín Larraza-Kintana; Federico Frattini Purpose Absorptive capacity (AC), the ability to leverage external knowledge for innovation, helps explain the mixed findings on family firms' (FFs) innovation performance. Our research focuses...

...Nupur Pavan Bang; Andrea Calabrò; Alfredo Valentino Purpose The complexity of succession in family firms is multifaceted and can sometimes lead to turbulence. While structured succession strategies offer a roadmap for smoother transitions, intergenerational differences in family small and medium...

...Dianne H.B. Welsh; Orlando Llanos-Contreras; Melany Rebeca Hebles Purpose This article explains the causal mechanism supporting sustainable longevity by analysing the last three generations of one of the oldest family firms in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach An explanatory single...

..., in order to realign aspirations and results (Holmes et al., 2011). With respect to CEO succession this perspective leads to the arguments that family firms' decision-makers set targets or aspiration levels for desirable performance, and judge whether and how non-family outsider CEO succession...

... family business research, this article proposes and tests a curvilinear relationship between social ties and family firm innovation, with the firm's market orientation and transgenerational intent as moderators. Representatives from a sample of 150 family firms in the United Arab Emirates...

...Andrea Calabrò; Ulrike Mayrhofer; Alfredo Valentino © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only This paper aims at extending the debate on family firm internationalization by identifying cycles and waves of their internationalization...

... business leaders' concerns about succession, very little research has been devoted to understanding the antecedents of next-generation engagement (Garcia et al., 2019). Some research has found that the cultural context can play an important role in family firms' continuity (Stamm and Lubinski...

..., specifically, (1) SEW and family firm performance; (2) SEW and the focus on leadership as a precursor to succession; (3) family firms, SEW and corporate social governance; (4) family firm innovation and performance; and (5) family ownership and management. The authors then put forward a conceptual model...

... Licensed re-use rights only Institutional theory Entrepreneurial intention Family firms Entrepreneurship Institutions The influence of a person's close surroundings when trying to embark on an entrepreneurial project is an issue of growing interest in the entrepreneurial research agenda...

... more in family firms compared to nonfamily firms in the short term; however, BBEO does enable family firms to experience greater labor productivity relative to nonfamily firms beyond the short term. Moreover, when BBEO is combined with CPS, labor productivity improves more for family firms than...

...' results show that Brittelstand firms are less willing than non-Brittelstand firms to collaborate with customers and universities, contrasting prior research on family firms, and distinguishing the innovation model of the Brittelstand from a family business model. The Brittelstand firms who are able...

... governance and the influence of external stimuli (competition) on innovation are also considered. The data of 20,995 family and non-family firms across 38 countries are derived from the World Bank Enterprise Survey during the period 2019–2020. Probit models are used to examine the impact of family...

...Nader Seyed Kalali Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the relationship between long-term orientation (LTO) and the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in family firms while adopting a stewardship perspective. Design/methodology/approach A survey of the top managers of family...

... Licensed re-use rights only Technology Entrepreneurs Female entrepreneurs Family firms During the past decade, studies on female entrepreneurs have gained popularity from the vital role they play in their countries' well-being by contributing to job creation, wealth and innovation (Alene...

... their actions in digital environments. In this context, this study aims to identify major online marketing strategies, business models and technology applications developed to date by family firms. Methodology: Upon a systematic literature review, we develop a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) under...

... encourage scholars to collect more time series data to increase confidence in the empirical results in future studies. On the other hand, the selection of proxy indicators concerning family firm behavior is mainly focused on financial and employment facets. A multidimensional selection of indicators could...