Ivan Miroshnychenko, Rui Torres de Oliveira, Alfredo De Massis, Ruth Überbacher
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Abstract
Prior literature establishes a link between family involvement and the firm financial performance. However, the mechanisms through which family involvement in a firm affects its financial performance in different institutional settings are largely unknown. Using an unbalanced panel of 3,322 listed firms from 32 countries over a 9-year period, we find that family involvement in ownership and management on average has negative effects on financial performance. Moreover, the negative effect of family ownership is less profound in countries with good institutional quality. We further find that R&D intensity partially mediates the negative relationship between family involvement and the firm financial performance, but the mediation effect is conditional on the degree of institutional quality in a country. These findings advance the family business, innovation, and institutional literature, and offer important implications for theory and practice.
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Family Business Review (FBR) has been a refereed journal since 1988, serving as the premier scholarly publication dedicated to the study of family-controlled enterprises. It delves into the dynamics of these businesses, encompassing a range of sizes from small to very large. FBR concentrates not only on the entrepreneurial founding generation but also on family enterprises in subsequent generations, including some of the world's oldest companies. The journal also publishes interdisciplinary research covering families of wealth, family foundations, and offices.
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