...Fabio Quarato; Claudia Pongelli; Andrea Calabrò; Donatella Depperu; Guido Giuseppe Maria Corbetta Purpose This study investigates the relationship between ownership concentration in family firms and their propensity to establish foreign direct investments (FDI) in locations with significant...

... it explain why some incumbents tend to get stuck or even reverse their retirement decisions. These emotional responses – such as anxiety, ambivalence and resistance – reflect a growing recognition in the literature that emotion is integral to strategic behavior and succession dynamics in family firms...

...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...

...-family outsider CEOs offering behavioral-based theoretical explanations of performance consequences of CEO successions. Family firms Family CEO Non-family outsider CEO Performance aspiration Organizational slack Performance To test our hypotheses, a panel of 430 CEO successions...

...Mumin Dayan; Poh Yen Ng; Dirk De Clercq To extend 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...

...Andrea Calabrò; Ulrike Mayrhofer; Alfredo Valentino This paper aims at extending the debate on family firm internationalization by identifying cycles and waves of their internationalization processes with a specific focus on de-internationalization and re-internationalization...

... are included in the model as control covariates. Despite the fact that next-generation engagement is essential to family business continuity, next-generation members have been overlooked in the family firm research (De Massis et al., 2016). In this study, next-generation engagement refers...

... 21 12 2022 21 12 2022 The results portray five leading clusters, 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...

... children's entrepreneurship directly and positively influence their intention to support their children's entrepreneurial behavior. Institutional theory Entrepreneurial intention Family firms Entrepreneurship Institutions The influence of a person's close surroundings when trying to embark...

..., 1989). Despite their economic impact globally (Gòmez-Mejìa et al., 2011), research has been ambiguous as to whether family firms, or firms under the control of founding families, experience higher or lower levels of labor productivity [1] relative to nonfamily firms (see Firfiray...

...' 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...

...Yuping Yin; Frank Crowley; Justin Doran; Jun Du; Mari O'Connor Family firms are more likely to make R&D investments, acquire external knowledge, engage in product innovation (including innovations that are new to the market) and process innovation, relative to non-family firms. However...

...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...

... author and can be contacted at: dhwelsh@uncg.edu 26 05 2021 18 01 2022 04 04 2022 28 05 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Technology Entrepreneurs Female entrepreneurs Family firms During...

... 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...