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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Executing and interpreting applications of PLS-SEM: Updates for family business researchers	143
Thirty years of research in family business journals: Status quo and future directions	80
Business families in times of crises: The backbone of family firm resilience and continuity	53
Family firms are indeed better places to work than non-family firms! Socioemotional wealth and employees’ perceived organizational caring	49
Leadership Styles and Leadership Behaviors in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review	49
Back to square one: The measurement of Socioemotional Wealth (SEW)	44
Practicing resilience in family firms: An investigation through phenomenography	43
Advancing family business science through context theorizing: The case of the Arab world	41
Family businesses in the Arab Middle East: What do we know and where should we go?	38
Surviving the coronavirus pandemic and beyond: Unlocking family firms’ innovation potential across crises	38
Embedded but not asleep: Entrepreneurship and family business research in the 21st century	36
Advancing family business research through modeling nonlinear relationships: Comparing PLS-SEM and multiple regression	35
From family successors to successful business leaders: A qualitative study of how high-quality relationships develop in family businesses	33
Family management and family guardianship: Governance effects on family firm innovation strategy	31
Family businesses under COVID-19: Inspiring models – Sometimes	28
Daughters’ careers in family business: Motivation types and family-specific barriers	24
Drivers of selectivity in family firms: Understanding the impact of age and ownership on CSR	23
Successor selection in family business—A signaling game	22
The influence of transgenerational succession intentions on the succession planning process: The moderating role of high-quality relationships	22
Diversified acquisitions in family firms: Restricted vs. extended family priorities	21
Innovation in the post-succession phase of family firms: Family CEO successors and leadership constellations as resources	21
Nurturing offspring’s affective commitment through informal family governance mechanisms	20
Experimental studies in family business research	18
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms	18
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?	18

Family business or business family? Organizational identity elasticity and strategic responses to disruptive innovation	17
Starting a family business as a career option: The role of the family household in Mexico	17
Careers in family business: New avenues for careers and family business research in the 21st century	15
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions	15
Reconsidering socioemotional wealth: A Smithian-inspired socio-economic theory of decision-making in the family firm	15
For whom are family-owned firms good employers? An exploratory study of the turnover intentions of blue- and white-collar workers in family-owned and non-family-owned firms	15
Addressing the theory-practice divide in family business research: The case of shareholder agreements	14
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience	14
Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions	13
IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research	13
Socioemotional wealth and family firm performance: A meta-analytic integration	13
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation	12
International entrepreneurship by family firms post Covid	12
Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council	12
How vulnerability enriches family firm relationships: A social exchange perspective	11
How do family businesses grow? Differences in growth patterns between family and non-family firms	11
Indirect nepotism: Network sponsorship, social capital and career performance in show business families	11
Performance of foundation-owned firms in Germany: The role of foundation purpose, stock market listing, and family involvement	10
Lone-founder firms in China: Replicating Miller et al. (2007) in a different context	10
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms	9
The first turnaround response of family firms in a crisis situation	9
When so much is at stake: Understanding organizational brinkmanship in family business	9
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms	9
Family firm succession through the lens of technology intelligence	8
Women’s entrepreneurial stewardship: The contribution of women to family business continuity in rural areas of Honduras	8
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms	8
Family-related goals, entrepreneurial investment behavior, and governance mechanisms of single family offices: An exploratory study	8
Surviving disruptive change: The role of history in aligning strategy and identity in family businesses	8
“The royal award goes to…”: Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures	8
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension	8
Closing the gender gap in top management teams: An examination of diversity and compensation parity in family and non-family firms	8
Effects of Task Conflict on Board Task Performance in Family Firms: The Importance of Board Openness	8
Firing managers: The benefits of family ownership and costs of family management	7
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs	7
Is blood thicker than water? Exploring the impact of family firms’ familial social relations with other firms within their industries	7
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?	7
Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon	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
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review	6
Successful family firm succession: Transferring external social capital to a shared-leadership team of siblings	6
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean	6
An Ethnography of Fairness Perceptions among Non-Family Employees: Does Religion Matter?	6
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms	6
A safe haven in times of crisis: The appeal of family companies as employers amid the COVID-19 pandemic	5
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	5
Family control, ambivalence, and preferential benefits	5
Employee downsizing and sales internationalization strategy in family firms	5
The relationship between family management and performance: A configurational approach in exploring the role of socioemotional wealth and generational stage	4
Editor’s note	4

Listed Family Firm Stakeholder Orientations: The Critical Role of Value-creating Family Factors	4
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies	4
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership	4
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis	4
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments	4
Family business risk-taking and financial performance: Is it easier said than done?	4