Journal of Family Business Strategy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Business Strategy is 6. 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
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses178
Ecological succession as a model for family business transitions: Integrating organizational ecology with succession-based governance in multigenerational enterprises97
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms87
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business64
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity60
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research50
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study43
Editorial Board42
Business family identity in single family offices – A configurational approach33
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms31
The influence of board social activity on firm performance29
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience29
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Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202124
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments23
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies23
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance23
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review21
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Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon19
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Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India17
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity17
The anatomy of family business conflict17
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond16
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?16
Family firm perceptions and investment decisions: An experimental conjoint analysis of private equity investors15
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean15
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting15
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs15
Resolution of financial distress in SMEs: How do family ownership and involvement affect second chance?14
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions14
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms14
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption14
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership14
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons14
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202513
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members13
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms13
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms11
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In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension11
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study10
IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research10
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders10
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies10
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation9
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses9
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis9
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Bridging generations: Managing cognitive conflicts during technology adoption in multigenerational family firms9
Exploring the future of family enterprise research through a social science lens8
Special issue on: Professionalizing the family business and business-owning family: Challenging our beliefs and moving theneedle8
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms8
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?7
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses7
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers7
Advancing diversity research in family business7
An update on family firm succession: A systematic literature review and future research directions7
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support7
Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”6
The impact of family commitment on firm innovativeness: The mediating role of resource stocks6
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business6
Reasons for internationalisation of family business6
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