Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry61
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict49
Endogeneity Issues in Family Business Research: Current Status and Future Recommendations43
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach40
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work36
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective29
Willing and Able? The Screening and Adoption of Habitual Family Venture Opportunities26
The Effect of Ownership Structure on Disclosure Quality and Credit Ratings in Family Firms: The Moderating Role of Auditor Choice20
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda20
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth20
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses20
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares19
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession19
The Psychological Foundations of Management in Family Firms: Emotions, Memories, and Experiences18
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective17
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms17
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises14
Family Firms and Environmental Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review13
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms13
Out of the Comfort Zone! Family Leaders’ Subsidiary Ownership Choices and the Role of Vulnerabilities12
Entry Timing as a Mixed Gamble in Cross-border Acquisition Waves: A study of Family Firms12
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience12
Celebrity Couples as Business Families: A Social Network Perspective11
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”11
Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue10
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms9
Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective9
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations8
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States8
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage8
International Expansion and Firm Growth in Domestic Markets: Family Versus Non-Family Firms7
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds7
External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights From the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic7
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