Journal of Family Business Strategy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Business Strategy 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ecological succession as a model for family business transitions: Integrating organizational ecology with succession-based governance in multigenerational enterprises199
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms125
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business113
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses79
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study51
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research39
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity38
Editorial Board36
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience34
The influence of board social activity on firm performance32
Editorial Board28
Business family identity in single family offices – A configurational approach28
Editorial Board27
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance22
Editorial Board22
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review21
Editorial Board21
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India20
Editorial Board20
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean19
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?19
Editorial Board19
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond18
The anatomy of family business conflict18
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity18
Family firm perceptions and investment decisions: An experimental conjoint analysis of private equity investors17
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms17
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons17
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting16
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions15
Resolution of financial distress in SMEs: How do family ownership and involvement affect second chance?14
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption14
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members14
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership14
Editorial Board13
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms13
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension13
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202513
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study12
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies12
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses11
Advancing diversity research in family business11
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders11
Founding family firms and exploration orientation: Analysis of S&P 500 firms11
Bridging generations: Managing cognitive conflicts during technology adoption in multigenerational family firms11
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses10
The impact of family commitment on firm innovativeness: The mediating role of resource stocks9
Reasons for internationalisation of family business9
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers9
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support9
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business9
An update on family firm succession: A systematic literature review and future research directions8
Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns8
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?8
Corporate venturing in family firms: A systematic literature review and future research agenda8
Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”8
Creating psychological contracts in family firms: The role of family membership at organisational entry7
Family firm employment behavior during a financial crisis: Does generational stage matter?7
Editorial Board7
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) across borders: Integrating national context into SEW research7
Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps7
Thirty years of research in family business journals: Status quo and future directions7
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