Mapping narratives in family business studies: a guideline for researchers

Floris, Michela; Dessi, Cinzia; Dettori, Angela

doi:10.4337/9781788116459.00019

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“…We asked questions about the chronological development of the family businesses, the family members involved, and their places of establishment. For instance, following a narrative style (Floris et al, 2020), the interviewees were asked to describe their firm from its inception (e.g., how the firm was founded and how its historical development unfolded; Appendix B provides an overview of selected interview questions). After reviewing the stated events and business development, we asked the respondents whether we had covered all the key information.…”

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Rural and Urban Family Business Portfolio Growth: The Role of Entrepreneurial Legacy

Sieger,

Akhter,

Chirico

2023

Family Business Review

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Applying an inductive case study approach, we analyze four Pakistani family business portfolios and reveal that rural-based family business portfolios tend to grow internally (organically) and through related diversification. In contrast, urban-based portfolios rather grow externally through acquisitions and partnerships and pursue unrelated diversification. The family’s entrepreneurial legacy and how it is transferred to members of the next generation through grooming and imprinting in rural versus urban contexts emerge as a key underlying mechanism.

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Section: Data Sources and Collectionmentioning

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Rural and Urban Family Business Portfolio Growth: The Role of Entrepreneurial Legacy

Sieger,

Akhter,

Chirico

2023

Family Business Review

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“…The other key approach to study narratives in family business is through more traditional qualitative analysis, where scholars inductively analyze and interpret a narrative to better describe, understand, or develop theoretical frameworks. For family business research, case studies utilizing interviews are the most prevalent form of qualitative study (Floris et al, 2020). Case studies are a very practical way-relative to other qualitative methods such as ethnographies-to inductively generate theory, improve existing theory, or develop constructs about family businesses; this is primarily because the case method allows the researcher to gather data on past events and track developments over time, which is often across generations.…”

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“…Table 1 provides a selective review and summary of key approaches and narratives that have been used to provide insights into family businesses. For a recent and more comprehensive review of the literature, we refer you to the book chapter by Floris et al (2020); this systematic review identified and discussed 28 narrative family business studies published in leading journals.…”

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In Their Own Words: A Call for Increased Use of Organizational Narratives in Family Business Research

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Payne

2020

Family Business Review

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The role words and narratives play in understanding rich relationships critical to family business cannot be overstated. This truth was highlighted by a recent landmark case resulting in the awarding of $572 million dollars to the state of Oklahoma based on opioid marketing in a case against a firm Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter often disparagingly referred to as "a family company." Unfortunately, however, the Attorney General was mistakenly referencing SC Johnson and their famous tagline rather than Johnson & Johnsonthe corporation involved in the case. In response to this misstep CEO and chairman of SC Johnson H. Fisk Johnson threatened litigation until the Attorney General promised to refrain from this incorrect name association in the future (Kopecki, 2019). In addition to the attention to careless use of words surrounding his well-known family firm, H. Fisk Johnson provided an illuminating family business narrative when he released a full-page ad explicitly outlining the issues associated with cavalier use of their name. In part, he notes, So, why do we care so much that our name has been incorrectly associated with the opioid crisis? Because it is about our name. Goodwill takes a lot of hard work to earn but takes very little to lose. Thousands and thousands of SC Johnson people have worked hard for 133 years to earn your goodwill, and it can be lost quickly by a politician propagating incorrect statements. (Johnson, 2019) 967765F BRXXX10.

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“…Family business succession is a long-term process involving three elements: the predecessor, the successor, and the succession process [ 12 , 15 ]. Undoubtedly, the source of evidence for its analysis should mainly be the retrospective interview data of crucial persons [ 3 , 4 , 16 ]. Accordingly, since direct observation is a record of real-time phenomena, conducting it while studying family business succession amid the mutual calibration of data accuracy is this paper’s focus.…”

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How to observe business operations: An empirical study of family business

Chou

2022

PLoS ONE

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The direct observation method is commonly used for data collection in family business case studies. Nevertheless, in research on family business succession that is mainly based on retrospective data, it is difficult to directly observe an event or situation at a given time. This paper thus first explores the application of observation data in the published research results of some family business case studies through a literature review. It then describes our observation methodology, i.e., sampling process, method, observation process, and reevaluation of our interview data, through a case study. Finally, the conclusion offers suggestions for using these observation methods, i.e., employing different types of observation, by considering running time and financial cost, familiarizing observers with various observation occasions, and seeking the assistance of relevant professionals for a research topic.

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Mapping narratives in family business studies: a guideline for researchers

Cited by 6 publications

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Rural and Urban Family Business Portfolio Growth: The Role of Entrepreneurial Legacy

Rural and Urban Family Business Portfolio Growth: The Role of Entrepreneurial Legacy

In Their Own Words: A Call for Increased Use of Organizational Narratives in Family Business Research

How to observe business operations: An empirical study of family business

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