OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry	61
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict	57
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach	48
Differences in New Venture Creation Activities Among Next-Generation Business Family Members: A Social Identity Perspective	48
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	34
Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification	33
Engaging With the Category: Exploring Family Business Longevity From a Historical Perspective	28
Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms	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	22
Structure of Local Political Power and Family Firms’ Concentration of Wealth	21
When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	21
Families and Their Firms Behaving Badly: A Review of Dysfunctional Behavior in Family Businesses	21
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession	20
Agent-Agent Conflict: Outside Directors and Co-CEOs in Family Firms	19
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective	19
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises	18
Family Lives in Motion: Toward a Life Course Process Theory of Ownership Transfer in Business-Owning Families	18
The Effect of Work History on Family Firm Owners’ Preference for Introducing External Shares	18
Looking Backward and Looking Forward: A Tribute to Don Neubaum—The Outgoing Editor of the Family Business Review	17
Innovation Through Tradition: The Role of Past Knowledge for Successful Innovations in Family and Non-family Firms	16
Looking at the Sky: An Ethnographic Study of How Religiosity Influences Business Family Resilience	14
Family Control and Sustainable Competitive Advantage	13
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 Perspective	11
Country Differences in Family Firm Reputation: An Exploration in Germany, India, and the United States	11
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms	11
Advancing Family Firm Research: The Importance of Multilevel Considerations	10
International Expansion and Firm Growth in Domestic Markets: Family Versus Non-Family Firms	10
The Effect of Second-Generation Involvement on Environmental Performance in Family Firms: A SEW Resources Perspective	9
Ownership Heterogeneity and Corporate Innovation Output: A Study on Family Blockholders and Activist Hedge Funds	9