The promise of the strategy as practice perspective for family business strategy research

Qualitative research practices and family business scholarship: A review and future research agenda

“…In addition, we also updated the search to include other articles published in 2010 with more than 10 total citations. This criterion yielded four additional articles (Fletcher, 2010;Irava & Moores, 2010;Nordqvist & Melin, 2010;Parada, Nordqvist, & Gimeno, 2010) creating a subsample of 24 qualitative family business articles for the period 1996 to 2010. Finally, two further qualitative articles were added that were published in 2013 and which received at least 10 citations in Google Scholar by November 2013 (De Massis, Frattini, Pizzurno, & Cassia, 2013;Kotlar & De Massis, 2013).…”

“…In some of the reviewed studies, scholars pay attention to contextual factors and the situatedness of social actors (i.e. a local and situationalized understanding of the processes and roles of strategic planning, Nordqvist & Melin, 2010). Another approach is to include and analyze the role of time and industrial context.…”

“…These are often aggregated into case studies or vignettes (i.e. Howorth, Westhead, & Wright, 2004;Irava & Moore, 2010;Karra et al, 2006;Lambrecht, 2005;Miller, Steier, & Le Breton-Miller, 2003;Chirico & Nordqvist, 2010;Salvato, Chirico, & Sharma, 2010;Steier, 2001a), although some case studies are drawn from grounded theory (Steier & Miller, 2010;Tsang, 2002) or are process oriented (Nordqvist & Melin, 2010). Aggregating the findings from the level of individuals to the firm or organizational level is understandable to the extent that it is necessary to capture 'apt illustrations' (Gluckman, 1961) at a particularized level in order to generalize analytically to the firm level.…”

“…Chirico & Nordqvist, 2010;De Massis, Frattini, & Pizzurno et al, 2013;Graves & Thomas, 2008;Hall & Nordqvist, 2008;Howorth et al, 2004;Irava & Moore, 2010;Karra et al, 2006;Kotlar and De Massis, 2013;Lambrecht, 2005;Murray, 2003;Nordqvist and Melin, 2010;Parada et al, (2010); Salvato et al, 2010;Steier, 2001b;Steier & Miller, 2010). This means that they include multiple perspectives in the analysis of the phenomenon they study.…”

“…In the few papers where the philosophical underpinning is explicitly specified, they are rooted in the interpretivist tradition (Hall, Melin, & Nordqvist, 2001;Hall & Nordqvist, 2008;Nordqvist & Melin, 2010;Parada et al, 2008) or in the constructivist tradition (Cole, 1997). This suggests a general lack of reflexivity about the assumptions underlying research choices.…”