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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry79
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach68
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict50
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work43
Family Business Goal Formation: Exploring Individual Motivation and the Interaction with Family, Business, and Context42
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective41
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms32
Publicly Listed Family-Controlled Firms and Corporate Venture Capital29
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth29
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses24
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda24
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession19
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares18
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective18
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families18
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms18
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises17
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience16
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms16
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”15
Family Firms and Environmental Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review15
Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective14
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage13
Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue13
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms12
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States11
International Expansion and Firm Growth in Domestic Markets: Family Versus Non-Family Firms11
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations10
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective9
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds8
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