OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Family Business Strategy is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers	205
Thirty years of research in family business journals: Status quo and future directions	97
Leadership Styles and Leadership Behaviors in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review	67
Business families in times of crises: The backbone of family firm resilience and continuity	66
Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees’ perceived organizational caring	63
Back to square one: The measurement of Socioemotional Wealth (SEW)	55
Advancing family business research through modeling nonlinear relationships: Comparing PLS-SEM and multiple regression	48
Family businesses in the Arab Middle East: What do we know and where should we go?	47
Advancing family business science through context theorizing: The case of the Arab world	46
From family successors to successful business leaders: A qualitative study of how high-quality relationships develop in family businesses	42
Embedded but not asleep: Entrepreneurship and family business research in the 21st century	41
Surviving the coronavirus pandemic and beyond: Unlocking family firms’ innovation potential across crises	41
Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy	38
Family businesses under COVID-19: Inspiring models – Sometimes	33
Innovation in the post-succession phase of family firms: Family CEO successors and leadership constellations as resources	31
The influence of transgenerational succession intentions on the succession planning process: The moderating role of high-quality relationships	28
Family business and business family questions in the 21st century: Who develops SEW, how do family members create value, and who belongs to the family?	26
Experimental studies in family business research	21
Socioemotional wealth and family firm performance: A meta-analytic integration	21
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation	21
Nurturing offspring’s affective commitment through informal family governance mechanisms	21
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms	20
Reconsidering socioemotional wealth: A Smithian-inspired socio-economic theory of decision-making in the family firm	18
Family business or business family? Organizational identity elasticity and strategic responses to disruptive innovation	18
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions	16

IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research	16
Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements	16
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience	15
Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions	15
How vulnerability enriches family firm relationships: A social exchange perspective	14
How do family businesses grow? Differences in growth patterns between family and non-family firms	14
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms	14
Performance of foundation-owned firms in Germany: The role of foundation purpose, stock market listing, and family involvement	13
Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council	13
International entrepreneurship by family firms post Covid	13
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms	13
Family firm succession through the lens of technology intelligence	12
Lone-founder firms in China: Replicating Miller et al. (2007) in a different context	11
Firing managers: The benefits of family ownership and costs of family management	11
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review	11
Family-related goals, entrepreneurial investment behavior, and governance mechanisms of single family offices: An exploratory study	11
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms	11
The first turnaround response of family firms in a crisis situation	11
Is blood thicker than water? Exploring the impact of family firms’ familial social relations with other firms within their industries	11
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean	10
When so much is at stake: Understanding organizational brinkmanship in family business	10
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension	9
“The royal award goes to…”: Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures	9
Surviving disruptive change: The role of history in aligning strategy and identity in family businesses	9
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?	9
Women’s entrepreneurial stewardship: The contribution of women to family business continuity in rural areas of Honduras	9
An Ethnography of Fairness Perceptions among Non-Family Employees: Does Religion Matter?	8
Successful family firm succession: Transferring external social capital to a shared-leadership team of siblings	8
Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon	8
Closing the gender gap in top management teams: An examination of diversity and compensation parity in family and non-family firms	8
A safe haven in times of crisis: The appeal of family companies as employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs	8
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms	7
Employee downsizing and sales internationalization strategy in family firms	7
Replication and validation in family business research	6
Family control, ambivalence, and preferential benefits	6
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership	6
Brief reflections on family firm research and some suggested paths forward	6
Aspirations of Chinese families-in-business: Development of a reliable measurement instrument	6
Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps	5
The enterpriseness of business families: Conceptualization, scale development and validation	5
CEO risk preferences in family firms: Combining socioemotional wealth and gender identity perspectives	5
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies	5
The relationship between family management and performance: A configurational approach in exploring the role of socioemotional wealth and generational stage	5
Family business risk-taking and financial performance: Is it easier said than done?	5
Entrepreneurship in family firms: What’s next? Multilevel embeddedness and individuals’ cognition	4
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance	4
Are family owners and managers good stewards in global crises? Evidence from stock market reactions to Covid-19	4
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study	4
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity	4

The role of the family and the institutional context for ambidexterity in Latin American family firms	4
Strategy disclosure and cost of capital: The key role of women directors for family firms	4
Advancing diversity research in family business	4
Listed Family Firm Stakeholder Orientations: The Critical Role of Value-creating Family Factors	4
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study	4
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments	4
One finding is no finding: Toward a replication culture in family business research	4
Innovation and internationalisation during times of economic growth, crisis, and recovery prior to Covid-19: A configurational approach comparing Spanish manufacturing family and non-family firms	4
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis	4