“…On one hand, the integrative framework that we developed to organize the literature, based on the different locus and focus of generations, and intra-, inter-, and transgenerational relationships, serves as a springboard for family business scholars to clarify their conceptual understanding of generations as a social category empirically related to, but conceptually distinct from, family firms. On the other hand, our research aims to reach a bidirectional exchange across fields (Jaskiewicz et al, 2020; Neubaum & Micelotta, 2021) and gives back to major theories in other social science fields by extending the conceptualization of generations beyond its demographic nature. Family firms indeed provide us with a unique setting to unveil specific dynamics and complexities that characterize the notion of generations as communities that preserve and transfer resources over time (Ge et al, 2021; Sasaki et al, 2020), contributing a new perspective on generations that enriches social science fields and their boundary conditions.…”