OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business	307
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses	135
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms	86
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research	77
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study	66
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity	60
Editorial Board	58
Editor’s Note	54
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience	48
Editorial Board	46
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms	45
The influence of board social activity on firm performance	43
Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council	40
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 2021	32
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	28
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments	26
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance	24
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies	23
Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon	22
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review	22
Editorial Board	21
Editor’s note	20
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India	20
Editorial Board	20

Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs	20
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity	19
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean	19
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?	19
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond	18
The anatomy of family business conflict	18
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption	17
Editorial Board	14
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions	14
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership	14
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms	14
From family successors to successful business leaders: A qualitative study of how high-quality relationships develop in family businesses	14
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members	14
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons	14
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting	14
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms	13
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension	13
Editorial Board	13
IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research	12
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses	11
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders	11
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies	11
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study	11
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms	11
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation	10
Aspirations of Chinese families-in-business: Development of a reliable measurement instrument	10
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis	10
Editorial Board	9
Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions	9
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms	8
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support	8
Exploring the future of family enterprise research through a social science lens	8
Innovation in the post-succession phase of family firms: Family CEO successors and leadership constellations as resources	8
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers	7
Special issue on: Professionalizing the family business and business-owning family: Challenging our beliefs and moving theneedle	7
Advancing diversity research in family business	7
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business	7
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses	7
Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns	6
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 stocks	6
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?	6
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?	6
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) across borders: Integrating national context into SEW research	6
Reasons for internationalisation of family business	6