Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry64
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict60
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach52
Counterfactual Indeterminacy Bias in Family Firm Research48
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work36
Family Business Goal Formation: Exploring Individual Motivation and the Interaction with Family, Business, and Context34
Differences in New Venture Creation Activities Among Next-Generation Business Family Members: A Social Identity Perspective34
WITHDRAWN – Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification29
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective28
Publicly Listed Family-Controlled Firms and Corporate Venture Capital26
A Bird’s-Eye View on Family Business Succession: Ownership Transfer Regimes and How They Change24
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth23
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda21
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses21
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms20
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession19
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective19
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families18
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares18
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms18
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms17
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises17
Looking Backward and Looking Forward: A Tribute to Don Neubaum—The Outgoing Editor of the Family Business Review16
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience13
When Does Financial Slack Matter? Family Ownership, CEO Family Status, and SME Performance13
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”12
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage12
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms11
Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective11
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States10
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations9
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds9
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective8
Examining Heterogeneous Configurations of Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms Through the Formalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy8
External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights From the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic8
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