Advancing family business science through context theorizing: The case of the Arab world

Contextualizing employment outcomes in family business research: current findings and future research avenues

“…Following Bamberger's thesis (2008), we argue that the aforementioned micro-macro gap is due to the failure of research efforts to move from a simple contextualization approach to context theory approach (Krueger et al 2021). That is, the positive or negative influence of family involvement in firms in terms of employment could depend on the context in which family firms' dwell.…”

“…While family business scholars have focused on describing the distinctive behaviour and performance between family and non-family firms and among different types of family firms, current research has been mainly disconnected from macro- (Krueger et al 2021) and micro (De Massis and Foss 2018) foundations to explain such distinctive behaviour and performance. Following the debate about micro-macro gap in management (Aguinis et al 2011), and specifically in family business research (Gomez-Mejia et al 2020), we propose a two-by-two framework with the purpose of delimitating the boundaries of our study enabling us to further explore the content of current research.…”

“…Second, the meaning of context represents the extent to which context is implicitly or explicitly incorporated into research to understand how it affects or is affected by the family firm phenomenon (Bamberger 2008;Gomez-Mejia et al 2020;Krueger et al 2021). There are two different meanings of context.…”

Culture, Islamic capital and the entrepreneurial behaviour of family firms in Saudi Arabia

“…This is surprising given that the critical influence of “context” on new venture creation and entrepreneuring practices is well recognised (Welter, 2011; Welter and Gartner, 2016; Baker and Welter, 2018). In addition, family business research to date has been dominated by a focus on American and European family businesses (Luo, 2019; Sharma and Chua, 2013, Krueger et al , 2021), where the traditional family is becoming less prevalent with weakening social bonds between family members (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003; Harrison and Leitch, 2018). Such changes in family structure and relationships, which are not evident to the same extent in all cultures, influence venture creation and outcomes, thus motivating family business researchers to identify family and firm characteristics associated with the entrepreneurial behaviour of family firms (Eddleston et al , 2012; Zahra et al , 2004).…”

“…Accordingly, there have been calls within the family business domain for research which appropriately reflects the unique cultural context in which family businesses operate (Samara, 2020; Basco, 2017; Krueger et al , 2021). Specifically, “as much as they may have in common, family business practices are not identical from one country to another … we have much to confirm in and add to the literature” (Hoy, 2014, p. 626).…”