Family Business Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Family Business Review is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Capital in the Family Business Literature: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda193
Microfoundations in Family Firm Research: A Review and Agenda for Theoretically Driven Future Inquiry57
Resilience in Family Businesses: A Systematic Literature Review49
“Over My Dead Body”: Wives’ Influence in Family Business Succession41
Talking About (My) Generation: The Use of Generation as Rhetorical History in Family Business35
Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage: A Rhetorical History Perspective33
Narrative Memory Work of Employees in Family Businesses: How Founding Stories Shape Organizational Identification28
Building an Outward-Oriented Social Family Legacy: Rhetorical History in Family Business Foundations25
Uncertainty around Transgenerational Control: Implications for Innovation Prior to Succession23
Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda20
Examining Heterogeneous Configurations of Socioemotional Wealth in Family Firms Through the Formalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy19
Strategic Change in Family Firms: A Review From an Institutional Environment and Firm Size Perspective18
Generations in Family Business: A Multifield Review and Future Research Agenda18
Enhancing Enterprise Family Social Capital Through Family Governance: An Identity Perspective17
Celebrity Couples as Business Families: A Social Network Perspective16
The Psychological Foundations of Management in Family Firms: Emotions, Memories, and Experiences15
Endogeneity Issues in Family Business Research: Current Status and Future Recommendations14
Socioemotional Wealth and Tax Aggressiveness in Private Family Firms: The Role of the CEO’s Characteristics14
Kinship and Gender in Family Firms: New Insights Into Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior12
Consumer Responses to CSR News of Family Business Brands: An Experimental Approach11
Legal Advisors and Family Business Owners: A Transaction Cost Understanding of “the Ownership Contract”11
Social Exchanges in Family Businesses: A Review and Future Research Agenda10
Family Firm Leader’s Socioemotional Wealth Importance Perceptions: The Influence of Negative Forms of Conflict9
Family Firm Heterogeneity: A Definition, Common Themes, Scholarly Progress, and Directions Forward9
Rural and Urban Family Business Portfolio Growth: The Role of Entrepreneurial Legacy9
A Family Imprinting Approach to Nurturing Willing Successors: Evidence From Centennial Family Firms8
Implications of Mental Health for Business Families and Family Businesses: Toward a Holistic Research Agenda8
Toward a Family Science Perspective on Executive Compensation in Family Firms: A Review and Research Agenda7
Accumulating Knowledge Over Time: Introduction to the Fourth FBR Review Issue6
Crisis Reveals Character: Founder and Founding Family Involvement During Firm Crises6
Why and How Do Family Firms Go Public? A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective of IPO6
History-Informed Family Business Research: An Editorial on the Promise of History and Memory Work6
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