Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry77
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict61
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach48
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 Context35
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective31
Willing and Able? The Screening and Adoption of Habitual Family Venture Opportunities28
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms27
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth26
Publicly Listed Family-Controlled Firms and Corporate Venture Capital23
The Effect of Ownership Structure on Disclosure Quality and Credit Ratings in Family Firms: The Moderating Role of Auditor Choice23
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda18
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses17
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective17
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession17
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares17
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms16
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms14
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families14
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises14
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience13
Family Firms and Environmental Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review13
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”13
Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective12
Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue12
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage11
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms10
International Expansion and Firm Growth in Domestic Markets: Family Versus Non-Family Firms10
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States9
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations8
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective7
0.34143495559692