Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 8. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry64
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict60
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach52
Counterfactual Indeterminacy Bias in Family Firm Research48
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work36
Family Business Goal Formation: Exploring Individual Motivation and the Interaction with Family, Business, and Context34
Differences in New Venture Creation Activities Among Next-Generation Business Family Members: A Social Identity Perspective34
WITHDRAWN – Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification29
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective28
Publicly Listed Family-Controlled Firms and Corporate Venture Capital26
A Bird’s-Eye View on Family Business Succession: Ownership Transfer Regimes and How They Change24
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth23
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses21
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda21
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms20
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective19
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession19
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares18
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms18
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families18
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms17
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises17
Looking Backward and Looking Forward: A Tribute to Don Neubaum—The Outgoing Editor of the Family Business Review16
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience13
When Does Financial Slack Matter? Family Ownership, CEO Family Status, and SME Performance13
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage12
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”12
Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective11
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms11
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States10
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations9
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds9
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective8
Examining Heterogeneous Configurations of Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms Through the Formalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy8
External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights From the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic8
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