Intellectual Foundations of Current Research in Family Business: An Identification and Review of 25 Influential Articles

Chrisman, James J.; Kellermanns, Franz W.; Chan, Kam C.; Liano, Kartono

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“…Family business research has long emphasised the importance of a long-term orientation and intergenerational succession for family firm survival from generation to generation (Chrisman et al, 2010). In order to accomplish these goals, members of the next generation must be willing to continue the family business and be able to effectively recognise and exploit viable opportunities that ensure that the business continues after they have been given control (Kellermanns et al, 2008).…”

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Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Jiang

Hayward

Morris

2017

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For years, family business researchers have argued that many areas of entrepreneurship research have unnaturally separated the social institutions of family and business, calling for more exploration of the pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship. Recent research has started to explore these effects within a family business context, but scholars still do not know much about how other family environments influence entrepreneurship. Using a family systems theoretical perspective, this conceptual paper addresses how developmental aspects of parenting and family environments, both inside and outside a family business context, contribute to the expression of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours in adulthood. The most theoretically novel aspects of this paper focus on how family business contexts amplify links between entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours.

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Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Jiang

Hayward

Morris

2017

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“…Firm age (FA) was measured as the number of years the firm has been in existence since founding. Additionally, family firms may have competitive advantages in some industries compared to others (Chrisman et al, 2010;Pollak, 1985), which can influence internationalisation (Buckley and Casson, 1976;Sciascia et al, 2012;Zahra, 2003). The firms in our sample have been in business for about 60 years with a large standard deviation of 45 years.…”

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“…The range is between 2 and 211 years. Primary firm industry (FI) was measured by classifying all firms into one of four industrial categories: 1 retail 2 service 3 manufacturing 4 others, following Chrisman et al (2010).…”

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Internationalisation of publicly traded family firms: a transaction cost theory perspective and longitudinal analysis

Memili

Misra

Chrisman

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There has been a prominent stream of research investigating internationalisation of organisations. While the importance of transaction costs in the governance decisions of firms has been well established in the literature, transaction cost theory (TCT) in family firms remains underutilised. We examine the impact of family governance (i.e. family ownership and involvement in management and the board of directors) on internationalisation within the domain of TCT using 386 S&P 500 firms. Our findings indicate an inverted U-shaped relationship between family ownership and internationalisation and a U-shaped relationship between family's involvement in management and the board and internationalisation. This illustrates the interesting differential impact of the components of family involvement on internationalisation. We conclude by discussing future research and implications for practice.Keywords: family firms; family management; family ownership; internationalisation; transaction cost theory.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Memili, E., Misra, K., Chrisman, J.J. and Welsh, D.H.B. (2017) 'Internationalisation of publicly traded family firms: a transaction cost theory perspective and longitudinal analysis', Int.

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“…Scholarly works that study the problems inherent in family businesses are numerous (Chrisman, Kellermanns, Chan & Liano, 2010), mainly trying to explain the high death rate of family businesses (Lansberg & Astrachan, 1994). One of the reasons of the failure of family businesses from the second generation may be due to the lack of ability or willingness of the family involved in the succession process of creating, sharing and transferring knowledge from one generation to another (Chirico, 2008).…”

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Study of factors influencing knowledge transfer in family firms

Martínez

Galván

Palacios

2013

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Purpose: We propose in this paper to analyze what are the factors that influence knowledge transfer both intra and intergenerational in family firms. The main objective is to establish a framework that can be used later in empirical research, although we maintain a completely theoretical approach in this paper Design/methodology/approach: This study, which is a comprehensive framework characterized the knowledge transfer literature in family firms in terms of the factors influencing them, was developed by an extensive literature review. Findings:Based on an extensive literature review, we conclude that knowledge is best transferred when family members value the following factors: trust between family members, commitment to the family business, intergenerational relationships, intragenerational relationships, psychological ownership of the family business, successor's aspects and training, predecessor involvement in the successor training, organizational culture and relationships with Family Business Associations. Research limitations/implications:The study demonstrates the extensiveness and variety of knowledge transfer research. However there is not the same situation in family firms' field. For academics, these different factors can be used as a map for future empirical studies. Originality/value:There is a notable lack of research into knowledge practices in -1216-Intangible Capital -http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/ic.405 small and medium-sized enterprises and especially in family firms. Besides, there is a gap in the understanding of an effective way to transfer these resources across generations; actually, existing studies on knowledge management in family businesses are scarce. The main value of our paper is to fill out partially this gap.

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Intellectual Foundations of Current Research in Family Business: An Identification and Review of 25 Influential Articles

Cited by 283 publications

References 110 publications

Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Internationalisation of publicly traded family firms: a transaction cost theory perspective and longitudinal analysis

Study of factors influencing knowledge transfer in family firms

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