Coupling Family Business Research with Organization Studies: Interpretations, Issues and Insights

Salvato, Carlo; Chirico, Francesco; Мелин, Лейф; Seidl, David

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“…Other studies differentiate between family-controlled firms (those over which families have unilateral control due to their level of ownership and managerial oversight) and familyinfluenced firms (over which family owners and managers have much less control) (Chua et al, 1999;Sirmon, Arregle, Hitt, & Webb, 2008). Finally, some researchers contend that emotions, social relationships, and intergenerational successionthat is, the family's intent to pass ownership of the business to the next generation -are the defining attributes of the family firm that should be integrated into family firm definitions (Salvato, Chirico, Melin, & Seidl, 2019).…”

Section: Family Firm Definitionsmentioning

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Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future

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Although the study of family firm internationalization has generated considerable scholarly attention, existing research has offered varied and at times incompatible findings on how family ownership and management shape internationalization. To improve our understanding of family firm internationalization, we systematically review 220 conceptual and empirical studies published over the past three decades, structuring our comprehensive overview of this field according to seven core international business (IB) themes. We assess the literature and propose directions for future research by developing an integrative framework of family firm internationalization that links IB theory with conceptual perspectives used in the reviewed body of work. We propose a research agenda that advocates a cross-disciplinary, multi-theoretic, and cross-level approach to studying family firm internationalization. We conclude that family firm internationalization research has the potential to contribute valuable insights to IB scholarship by increasing attention to conceptual and methodological issues, including micro-level affective motivations, background social institutions, temporal perspectives, and multi-level analyses.

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“…Herewith, we would like to contribute to ongoing discussions emphasizing the importance of organizations as a central object of research (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2016, p. 99; Apelt et al, 2017, p. 13). In addition, we follow the argumentation by Salvato, Chirico, Melin, and Seidl (2019) that the coupling of family business research with organization studies is a highly promising research topic for the future. As a starting point, we draw on Niklas Luhmann's understanding of organizations as decision‐making social orders (Luhmann, 2000; Nassehi, 2005).…”

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The business family 3.0: Dynastic business families as families, organizations and networks—Outline of a theory extension

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This paper's point of departure is that business families are permanently confronted with a dual function: They engage in typical family relations yet also have formal decision‐making processes for business and family strategy. However, large business families—which may consist of several hundred shareholders who own one or more family businesses—are confronted with an additional challenge. Alongside being simultaneously a family and an organization, they also have to establish and maintain notions of membership and modes of communication between distantly related shareholders. This we have called family network or family 3.0. The challenges involved in initiating, shaping and maintaining such networks require new strategic reconsideration in the family itself and an extension of the existing theoretical observations regarding family businesses, thereby establishing the basis for a better understanding of large‐scale business families. For this, we try to combine family business research, organization studies and systems theory.

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“…Therefore, by delving deeply into the context of family firms, we shed light on the underinvestigated temporal foundation of intergenerational tensions in organizations, which is particularly relevant for succession. Past research has acknowledged the importance of examining the temporal foundations of intergenerational phenomena in family firms (Salvato et al, 2019) to stimulate learning tools that allow different generations to communicate, coordinate, and understand each other (Nason et al, 2019). In this regard, the notion of temporal work (Kaplan and Orlikowski, 2013) proves particularly useful in seeking to understand the process of mediating divergent temporal orientations and addressing the related intergenerational tensions.…”

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Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession

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Interactions between family members of different generations often unleash powerful tensions in family firms. Intergenerational tensions can be particularly prominent during intra-family succession as a result of the different temporal orientations of senior and junior generation family members. However, scant systematic attention has thus far been paid to understanding the temporality of intergenerational tensions in family firms. Through an embedded case study, we explore the mediation process that helps family firms manage intergenerational tensions by way of temporal work. Our investigation of an advisory firm and its clients led us to identify generational brokerage as the intersubjective process through which temporal work enables generations toward the joint understanding of temporal orientations. Our theoretical insights have significant implications for developing a temporal view of succession and add novel important knowledge to research on mediation and time. Indeed, we show that generational brokerage is a dialectic construct with organizing properties able to blend disparate research streams by going beyond a unidirectional forward-flowing logic of time in examining organizational processes.

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Coupling Family Business Research with Organization Studies: Interpretations, Issues and Insights

Cited by 40 publications

References 109 publications

Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future

Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future

The business family 3.0: Dynastic business families as families, organizations and networks—Outline of a theory extension

Generational brokerage: An intersubjective perspective on managing temporal orientations in family firm succession

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