Journal of Family Business Strategy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Business Strategy 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business365
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses151
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms83
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity76
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study62
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research57
Editorial Board56
Editor’s Note53
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms45
Editorial Board36
The influence of board social activity on firm performance34
Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience33
Dancing with giants: Contextualizing state and family ownership effects on firm performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council27
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202126
Editorial Board25
Editorial Board25
Editorial Board25
Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance23
Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments23
Getting family firm diversification right: A configurational perspective on product and international diversification strategies22
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review22
Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon22
Editorial Board20
Editorial Board20
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?19
Editor’s note19
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs18
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India18
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity16
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean16
The anatomy of family business conflict16
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms15
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond15
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons14
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting14
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption14
Family firm perceptions and investment decisions: An experimental conjoint analysis of private equity investors14
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions14
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms13
Resolution of financial distress in SMEs: How do family ownership and involvement affect second chance?13
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members13
Editorial Board13
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership13
Editorial Board12
IPO in family business: A systematic review and directions for future research12
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension11
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses10
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study10
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies10
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders10
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms10
Editorial Board9
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms9
Aspirations of Chinese families-in-business: Development of a reliable measurement instrument9
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation9
Say-on-Pay voting dispersion in listed family and non-family firms: A panel data analysis9
Exploring the future of family enterprise research through a social science lens9
Nonfamily employees’ perceptions of treatment in family businesses: Implications for organizational attraction, job pursuit intentions, work attitudes, and turnover intentions8
Advancing diversity research in family business8
Special issue on: Professionalizing the family business and business-owning family: Challenging our beliefs and moving theneedle8
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support7
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business7
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers7
Reasons for internationalisation of family business7
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses7
The impact of family commitment on firm innovativeness: The mediating role of resource stocks7
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?7
Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”6
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) across borders: Integrating national context into SEW research6
An update on family firm succession: A systematic literature review and future research directions6
Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns6
An Ethnography of Fairness Perceptions among Non-Family Employees: Does Religion Matter?6
Family business and business family questions in the 21st century: Who develops SEW, how do family members create value, and who belongs to the family?6
Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps6
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