Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/08944865211032503
Donald O. Neubaum, E. Micelotta
Every management scholar is keenly aware of the need for contemporary research to make a theoretical contribution to the literature. As editors and reviewers, we wear the hat of “gatekeepers of the quality of the journal” (Chrisman et al., 2017, p. 214) and our assessment of the theoretical contributions of the manuscripts we appraise significantly color our editorial recommendations and decisions. As authors, we recognize the magnitude of this threshold and invest (or should invest) considerable effort in developing, expressing, and highlighting the theoretical contribution(s) of our own work. Despite this effort, more than 90% of the manuscripts submitted to journals like Family Business Review (FBR) are rejected, and the majority of those ill-fated submissions suffer from unclear or underdeveloped theoretical contributions. Over our respective careers, we have read, reviewed, and written decision letters for hundreds of family businesses manuscripts. In every case, we have commented on the extent to which the manuscript makes a theoretical contribution, and we have recommended rejection, revision, or acceptance based, significantly, on our assessment of the accomplishment of this threshold. Even for those papers we have evaluated positively, we have often pushed authors to clarify, deepen, or extend their contributions to theory and/or to the literature in general. Clearly, the need to contribute theoretically is imperative, and each paper’s ultimate ability to make a theoretical contribution varies. While the potential contribution of each manuscript varies, we have noticed persistent patterns in the types of family business papers we have reviewed. In our reviews and decision letters, we often find ourselves expressing a common set of criticisms and concerns that plague many of the papers we evaluate. In essence, we find that many authors, and consequently many family business papers, are repeatedly falling into the same few “theoretical pitfalls.” Based on our collective experience, we have identified four categories that capture many of these potential pitfalls. While research from each of these (and other) categories may indeed present a strong theoretical contribution, we observe that the relative ability (and manner) of each category to contribute to the literature can vary significantly. Furthermore, we find that the types of theoretical pitfalls associated with each category are generally consistent. This is troubling as many submissions are being rejected (oftentimes without even being sent out for full review) for largely the same few overarching reasons. In this editorial, we provide some guidance to authors by explaining what it means to make a theoretical contribution. We then identify and discuss four categories of family business papers, each of which presents different avenues or likelihood of making a theoretical contribution. For each type, we highlight common shortcomings found in manuscripts and offer authors ideas to furt
每一位管理学者都敏锐地意识到,当代研究需要对文献做出理论贡献。作为编辑和审稿人,我们戴着“期刊质量守门人”的帽子(克里斯曼等人,2017年,第214页),我们对所评估手稿的理论贡献的评估显着影响了我们的编辑建议和决策。作为作者,我们认识到这个门槛的重要性,并投入(或应该投入)相当大的努力来发展、表达和突出我们自己工作的理论贡献。尽管如此,提交给《家族企业评论》(Family Business Review, FBR)等期刊的90%以上的手稿都被拒绝了,而且这些不幸的投稿大多是因为理论贡献不明确或不发达。在我们各自的职业生涯中,我们已经阅读、审阅和撰写了数百份家族企业手稿的决定函。在每种情况下,我们都对稿件的理论贡献程度进行了评论,并根据我们对该阈值的完成情况的评估,建议拒绝、修改或接受。即使是那些我们给予积极评价的论文,我们也经常要求作者澄清、深化或扩展他们对理论和/或一般文献的贡献。显然,理论上的贡献是必要的,而每篇论文做出理论贡献的最终能力各不相同。虽然每个手稿的潜在贡献各不相同,但我们注意到,在我们所审查的家族企业论文类型中,存在持续的模式。在我们的评论和决定信中,我们经常发现自己表达了一组共同的批评和关注,这些批评和关注困扰着我们评估的许多论文。从本质上讲,我们发现许多作者,以及许多家族企业论文,都在反复陷入同样的几个“理论陷阱”。根据我们的集体经验,我们已经确定了捕捉这些潜在陷阱的四个类别。虽然这些(和其他)类别的研究可能确实有很强的理论贡献,但我们观察到,每个类别对文献的贡献的相对能力(和方式)可能会有很大差异。此外,我们发现与每个类别相关的理论陷阱类型通常是一致的。这是一个令人困扰的问题,因为许多提交内容都因为相同的几个主要原因而被拒绝(通常甚至没有被发送出去进行全面审查)。在这篇社论中,我们通过解释什么是做出理论贡献来为作者提供一些指导。然后,我们确定并讨论了四类家族企业论文,每一类都提出了不同的途径或做出理论贡献的可能性。对于每种类型,我们都强调了手稿中发现的常见缺点,并为作者提供了进一步提高理论工作的想法。在此基础上,本文提供了一个实用的指导,以帮助家族企业学者理解、澄清和深化他们的工作贡献。具体来说,我们鼓励研究人员决定他们的论文打算贡献什么对话,并讨论作者可以采取的各种途径,以最大限度地提高他们对家族企业文献的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2021-06-23DOI: 10.1177/08944865211026175
Mohammad Fuad, Vinod Thakur, A. Sinha
We draw upon the mixed gamble perspective to investigate the entry timing decisions made by family firms in the context of cross-border acquisition (CBA) waves. We argue that family-controlled firms trade-off short-term SEW and financial losses in favor of long-term SEW and financial gains, while moving early in CBA waves. Findings suggest that family-controlled firms have a higher preference for early movement compared with nonfamily-controlled firms. Further, we show that founder’s presence on the board and acquirer’s superior performance amplifies the mixed gamble trade-offs, thereby strengthening the relationship between family control and early movement within CBA waves.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/08944865211012139
R. Humphrey, A. Massis, P. Picone, Yi Tang, Ronald F. Piccolo
Exploring the psychological foundations of management in family firms is necessary to understand why they formulate and implement strategies differently from nonfamily firms, and why and how family firm behavior varies across different family firms. Picone et al. (2021. The psychological foundations of management in family firms: Values, biases, and heuristics. Family Business Review, 34(1), 12-32) have proposed a conceptual framework for the psychological foundations of management in family business, examining how the values, biases, and heuristics of family firm members affect strategic decision-making and family firm outcomes. Drawing on this framework, we examine emotions, memories, and experiences in family firms, disentangling “what we know” from “what we should know”, and offering some relevant questions to advance the field.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-26DOI: 10.1177/08944865211008350
J. Daspit, James J. Chrisman, Triss Ashton, Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos
While progress has been made in recent years to understand the differences among family firms, insights remain fragmented due, in part, to an incomplete understanding of heterogeneity and the scope of differences that exist among family firms. Given this, we offer a definition of and review the literature on family firm heterogeneity. A latent semantic analysis of 781 articles from 33 journals identified nine common themes of family firm heterogeneity. For each theme, we review scholarly progress made and highlight differences among family firms. Additionally, we offer directions for advancing the study of family firm heterogeneity.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-17DOI: 10.1177/08944865211008062
K. Madison, K. Eddleston, F. Kellermanns, G. Powell
We extend relational demography theory by introducing kinship as a new demographic characteristic of categorization. We theorize that family firm employees’ kinship similarity (family vs. nonfamily), kinship tie (child vs. other familial relationship), and gender (female vs. male) uniquely affect their organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Data collected from 209 family CEO–employee dyads indicate that male family employees, especially sons of the CEO, display the highest OCB when altruistic leadership behavior is high, whereas daughters and other female family employees display consistently high OCB, confirming that employees’ experiences in family firms are simultaneously shaped by their kinship characteristics and gender.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0894486520985630
P. Picone, Alfredo De Massis, Yi Tang, Ronald F. Piccolo
Considering the heterogeneity of family firm behaviors as reflecting the values, biases, and heuristics of individuals, we discuss the implications of the psychological foundations of management in family firms. We develop a conceptual framework for investigating how the values, biases, and heuristics of family and nonfamily members affect strategic decision-making and the outcomes of family firms. To advance the field, we put forward some relevant questions and offer a future research agenda at the intersection of the psychological foundations of management and family business.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1177/0894486521995268
Donald O. Neubaum, G. Tyge Payne
In March of 2020, the opening editorial in Family Business Review (FBR) acknowledged the importance of family in our lives and highlighted—that how, among all the relationships we have with others, both personal and professional, familial relationships represent the most relevant and central of all (Payne, 2020). The family psychology literature notes that the symbolic and metaphorical representations of the maternal and paternal pillars of the family deeply influence our perceptions of the world around us (Tognazzo & Neubaum, 2020). Since the release of that issue, the entire world (along with our way of life) has been disrupted by the pandemic, ushering in many unforeseen challenges and changes that have left no relationship or part of our society undisturbed. The way we interact with others has been undeniably altered. Among the many trials emerging over the past year, the most difficult are arguably those that involve the inextricable balance between family and work. Of our many roles—as parents, children, spouses, partners, managers, teachers, employees, business owners, and caretakers, and so on—there persists a demand to continually monitor and assess situations to ensure the shortand long-term well-being of the many people around us. Priorities and routines change. Although great strides have been made to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 infections and help society navigate the hardships stemming from social distancing (e.g., the evolution of virtual meeting platforms, more extensive work-from-home structures, touch-free retailing, and remote schooling), many of these efforts tend to remind us of the importance of close relationships, and especially, close familial relationships. As these changes have reminded us of the value of such relationships, which can occasionally be taken for granted, we are also reminded of the strength and impact of familial relationships in the context of a firm. Given the integral role of the family in many firms, these changes in our society have underscored, by association and necessity, the tight-knit and mutual dependence between families and business. One clear lesson learned these past months is how the well-being of the economy, and society at large, is simultaneously dependent on the interwoven wellbeing of our family and business systems. If nothing else, 2020 has perhaps ushered in a new era of relevance for family businesses, making our field all the more obvious and imperative to the world. It is with this realization that we suggest family business scholars move forward with confidence, recognizing that our work has a unique and important role to play; we can make a difference in how businesses and society respond to the many challenges and associated opportunities that have emerged or will soon emerge. We believe the current crisis may be particularly impactful on family businesses, and as such, the way scholars view the underlying assumption to family business research may require significant ret
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Pub Date : 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1177/0894486520961645
Nadine H. Kammerlander, H. Patzelt, Judy Behrens, Christian W. Röhm
Organizational ambidexterity is vital for family firms’ long-term success, yet we still lack sufficient insights into the role of family involvement in top management in this context. Building on research on family firm innovation and diversity, we argue there are curvilinear relationships between family involvement in top management and exploration, exploitation, and organizational ambidexterity. We further propose that these (inverse) U-shaped relationships are affected by family CEOs’ family-centered noneconomic goals. Multisource data on 109 family-managed firms support most of our hypotheses and provide a nuanced understanding of how diversity within top management affects family firms’ innovative behavior.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-30DOI: 10.1177/0894486520968826
K. Bormann, Sabrina Backs, Christina Hoon
Based on stewardship theory and social role theory, we examine the bounded nature of nonfamily employees’ individual stewardship behaviors (i.e., organizational citizenship behavior, OCB) in family firms. We expect stewardship culture to make male (female) employees’ OCB more (less) affect-driven. In Study 1, we used data from family and nonfamily firms’ employees to establish the unique manifestation of stewardship in family firms. Study 2 was a diary study of nonfamily employees. As expected, for women, we found stewardship culture to attenuate the relationships between affect and OCB. For men, stewardship culture strengthened the relationship between affect and OCB.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-26DOI: 10.1177/0894486520967832
Feifei Lu, H. Kwan, Zhu Zhu
Drawing on upper echelons theory, this study examines how the traditionality of family chief executive officers (CEOs) influences the selection of their successors, and how this relationship is moderated by two dimensions of socioemotional wealth. Recognizing the central role of CEOs in determining successors, we show that a family CEO’s cultural values regarding traditionality have a significant positive effect on the probability that a family member is chosen as successor. We find that this relationship is strengthened by the family members’ identification with the firm and weakened by the family members’ sense of dynasty. Our contributions to theory and practice are discussed.
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