Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 9. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry71
Endogeneity Issues in Family Business Research: Current Status and Future Recommendations56
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach44
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict44
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work32
Willing and Able? The Screening and Adoption of Habitual Family Venture Opportunities31
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective27
The Effect of Ownership Structure on Disclosure Quality and Credit Ratings in Family Firms: The Moderating Role of Auditor Choice26
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda25
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms24
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth24
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses21
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession21
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares20
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 Families17
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective16
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises15
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms15
Family Firms and Environmental Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review14
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience14
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”13
Celebrity Couples as Business Families: A Social Network Perspective13
Out of the Comfort Zone! Family Leaders’ Subsidiary Ownership Choices and the Role of Vulnerabilities13
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage12
Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue12
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
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations10
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
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds9
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