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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business348
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses147
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms83
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study72
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity62
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research55
Editorial Board53
Editor’s Note48
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms45
Editorial Board35
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience33
Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council30
The influence of board social activity on firm performance26
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202125
Editorial Board24
Editorial Board24
Editorial Board24
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance22
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies22
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments22
Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon21
Editorial Board20
Editorial Board20
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review20
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond19
Editor’s note19
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India18
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity18
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean16
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs16
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?15
The anatomy of family business conflict15
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions14
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting14
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption14
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons14
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms14
Editorial Board14
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership13
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms13
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members13
Editorial Board12
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension12
IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research12
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms11
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies11
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders10
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses10
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study10
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms9
Editorial Board9
Exploring the future of family enterprise research through a social science lens9
Aspirations of Chinese families-in-business: Development of a reliable measurement instrument9
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis9
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation9
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses8
Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions8
Special issue on: Professionalizing the family business and business-owning family: Challenging our beliefs and moving theneedle8
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support8
The impact of family commitment on firm innovativeness: The mediating role of resource stocks7
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business7
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?7
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers7
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?7
Advancing diversity research in family business7
Reasons for internationalisation of family business6
Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns6
Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”6
Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps6
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