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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry	77
Counterfactual Indeterminacy Bias in Family Firm Research	66
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict	61
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach	57
Differences in New Venture Creation Activities Among Next-Generation Business Family Members: A Social Identity Perspective	39
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work	35
Family Business Goal Formation: Exploring Individual Motivation and the Interaction with Family, Business, and Context	32
WITHDRAWN – Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification	29
How Single-Family Offices Translate Impact Intentions to Desired Outcomes in Portfolio Companies	27
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective	26
Publicly Listed Family-Controlled Firms and Corporate Venture Capital	25
A Bird’s-Eye View on Family Business Succession: Ownership Transfer Regimes and How They Change	25
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses	24
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth	24
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession	20
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms	20
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares	18
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms	18
Looking Backward and Looking Forward: A Tribute to Don Neubaum—The Outgoing Editor of the Family Business Review	17
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families	17
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises	16
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms	16
When Does Financial Slack Matter? Family Ownership, CEO Family Status, and SME Performance	15
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”	15
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage	13

Do Family Owners Hold Nonfamily CEOs More Accountable Than Family CEOs for Firm Performance? A Dynamic Perspective	12
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations	12
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective	11
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States	11
External Crises and Family Social Capital Reconfiguration: Insights From the European Debt Crisis and the Covid-19 Pandemic	8
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds	8
Examining Heterogeneous Configurations of Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms Through the Formalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy	7
Restructuring of Poorly Performing Family-Owned Portfolio Firms: The Role of Socioemotional Wealth	7
Identity in Family Firms: Toward an Integrative Understanding	7
Social Capital in the Family Business Literature: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda	7