Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees’ perceived organizational caring

Family businesses under COVID-19: Inspiring models – Sometimes

“…1 It also designed flexible workplaces and work schedules, and tried to fit the person to the job, in the process promoting especially broad job definitions and flatter hierarchies (see also Miller, Tang, Xu, & Le Breton-Miller, 2021 ; Pittino, Visintin, Lenger, & Sternad, 2016 ). In a recent study, Christensen-Salem, Mesquita, Hashimoto, Hom, and Gomez-Mejia (2021) found that employees of Brazilian family firms tended to feel that their employers cared more about their well-being in family versus non-family businesses.…”

A safe haven in times of crisis: The appeal of family companies as employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Family firms are said to offer greater job security than non-family firms ( Block et al, 2019 ). Research has shown that owing to socioemotional wealth intentions ( Gomez-Mejia et al, 2011 ), family firms strive to build trusting relationships with their employees ( Christensen-Salem et al, 2021 ) and typically show greater reluctance to downsize their workforces compared to non-family firms ( Block, 2010 ).…”

A Systematic Literature Review on Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Firms

“…Many scholars have found a positive relationship between ownership, especially family firm ownership, and CSR activities [74][75][76], including responsibility for investors, employees [77,78], and consumers [77]; community-related CSR [19]; environmental responsibility [17,20,77,[79][80][81]; legal and ethical responsibility [77]; corporate charitable donations [12,[82][83][84]; and the disclosure of CSR [66,85].…”