Mixed methodology in family business research: Past accomplishments and perspectives for the future

Communicating the family firm brand: Antecedents and performance effects

“…We follow an exploratory sequential mixed methods multistudy design (Reilly & Jones, 2017; for an overview of the studies see Figure 1). We first conduct a qualitative study (i.e., expert interviews with family firm executives) to deepen the understanding for reasons and barriers of this particular branding decision (Hausman, 2005).…”

The F-PEC Revisited: From the Family Business Definition Dilemma to Foundation of Theory

“…Originating, developing, and extending theories of the family business have been the underlying rationale of many articles published since the first F-PEC article (e.g., Chrisman, Chua, & Litz, 2003). Owing to the heterogeneity of family firms, both across and within countries and contexts (Chua et al, 2012; Reilly & Jones, 2017; Rondi, De Massis, & Kotlar, in press), a single family business theory has not emerged thus far. What we see are theories addressing phenomena from within the family business realm, to our knowledge the concept of socioemotional wealth (Gómez-Mejía, Haynes, Núñez-Nickel, Jacobson, & Moyano-Fuentes, 2007) and its cousins such as emotional value (Astrachan & Jaskiewicz, 2008; Zellweger & Astrachan, 2008) are a step toward a theory of family businesses.…”

Supplementing Q-method with narratives: Contextualizing CEOs’ values for family firms

“…In this way, a better understanding of how the family influences the firm is promoted (Simon et al, 2012;Sorenson, 2014). This study also addresses recent calls for more in-depth qualitative studies and a combined use of qualitative methodological approaches (Reay & Zhang, 2014;Fletcher, De Massis, & Nordqvist, 2016;Reilly & Jones, 2017).…”