Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business

In recent years, scholars have intensified the calls for more interdisciplinary approaches toward understanding the motivations, activities, processes, and behaviors of family businesses. Most family business scholars tend to draw upon insights from the management and economics disciplines for both theoretical and methodological guidance in their research (Neubaum, 2018; Payne, 2018; Sharma, 2004). However, the relevance for family business studies of disciplines such as psychology (e.g., Kammerlander & Breugst, 2019; Pieper, 2010; Strike et al., 2018), family sciences (e.g., Combs et al., 2020; Jaskiewicz et al., 2017), history (Colli, 2012; Hjorth & Dawson, 2016), and anthropology (Stewart, 2003) has also been emphasized: