...Ana Carvalho; Loaloa Riad Purpose Using a social capital lens, we explore the complex role of familiness in how Family Businesses (FBs) manage resistance to strategic change. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a qualitative approach based on 16 semi-structured interviews (analysed...

...Omer Yazici; Metin Saygılı; Mehmet Bağış Purpose Family firms with comparable resources often diverge sharply in performance, yet the reasons remain unclear. This study examines how three components of perceived familiness – organizational decision-making, family culture and family image...

...Nadiah Mahmad Nasir; Nuraini Abdullah; Syafiqah Md Nayan; Nur Sa'adah Muhamad; Sharifah Anis Zarith Syed Dziauddin Purpose This study aims to develop an integrative, mechanism-based framework explaining how familiness is enacted as a dynamic relational capability during family firm succession...

...Anna Maria Moisello Purpose Family wineries are important drivers of economic development and cultural conservation, but despite the academic interest in them, a comprehensive literature review is missing. This paper aims to contribute to this gap and examine the current knowledge of family...

...Myriam Cano-Rubio; Ascension Barroso; Ramón Sanguino; Alfredo Valentino; Andrea Calabrò; Rodrigo Basco Purpose By investigating the reactions of family businesses to COVID-19 pandemic this article aims to explaining how family firms are capable to preserve employment during hardship. Design...

...Chamila H. Dasanayaka; Nuwan Gunarathne; David F. Murphy Purpose This perspective paper explores ongoing research into stimuli that promote environmental responsibility in family business contexts. It also delineates emerging patterns and possible directions for future research within this domain...

...Catherine Komugisha Tindiwensi; Ernest Abaho; John C. Munene; Moses Muhwezi; Isaac N. Nkote Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how entrepreneurial bricolage empowers smallholder commercial farming, from a family business perspective. Design/methodology/approach The study employed...

...Michelle O'Shea; Abel Duarte Alonso Purpose Interviews were conducted with eight family businesses involved in several industries in Western Australia. Design/methodology/approach The purpose of this study is to draw on the experiences of family-owned firms and explore how contemporary human...

...Ismael Luiz dos Santos; Sidnei Vieira Marinho; Ruan Carlos dos Santos Purpose Family businesses gain notoriety in academic research because they have peculiarities found only in this type of organization, and it is because of these attributes that this work aims to analyze, through...

...Susanne Royer; Lisa Bradley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose advances for developing our understandings of valuable resources in small family firms. The focus is on group support behavior within firms. It is proposed that this behavior is unique and valuable within small family...

...Claudia Binz Astrachan; Isabel C. Botero Purpose Evidence suggests that some stakeholders perceive family firms as more trustworthy, responsible, and customer-oriented than public companies. To capitalize on these positive perceptions, owning families can use references about their family nature...

...Felix K. Thiele; Martin Wendt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to grasp the effect of familiness on capital structure decisions in family firms, as family firm identity may be an important source of competitive advantage due to its potential to moderate relationships with stakeholders...

...Jim Andersén Purpose – Absorptive capacity (AC) is a key competitive advantage and is defined as the capacity to absorb knowledge from the environment. Although some studies have examined how various antecedents to AC differ between family firms and non-family firms, no studies have set out...