Journal of Family Business Strategy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Family Business Strategy 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ecological succession as a model for family business transitions: Integrating organizational ecology with succession-based governance in multigenerational enterprises192
Trapped in a “golden cage”! The legitimation of women leadership in family business117
The role of emotional labor and display latitude in preserving socioemotional wealth in family businesses107
Strings attached: Socioemotional wealth mixed gambles in the cash management choices of family firms69
Exploring different configurations of entrepreneurial orientation in small artisan family firms: A multi-case study56
Contradiction and disaggregation for family firm research51
Family businesses and debt maturity structure: Focusing on family involvement in governance to explain heterogeneity48
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Playing the wild cards: Antecedents of family firm resilience37
Benefitting from benefits—A comparison of employee satisfaction in family and non-family firms35
Business family identity in single family offices – A configurational approach33
The influence of board social activity on firm performance32
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Board diversity in family firms across cultures: A contingency analysis on the effects of gender and tenure diversity on firm performance26
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Human resources and mutual gains in family firms: New developments and possibilities on the horizon25
The role of trust in family business stakeholder relationships: A systematic literature review24
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The anatomy of family business conflict19
Socioemotional wealth in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous contexts: The case of family firms in Latin America and the Caribbean19
Why is diversification not dead? Evidence from family business groups during economic reforms in India19
Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?19
Through her eyes: How daughter successors perceive their fathers in shaping their entrepreneurial identity19
Legacy: The meaning of lasting impact for family, business, and beyond19
Family leadership, family involvement and mutuality HRM practices in family SMEs19
Theoretical and empirical differences between the interlocked boards of family and non-family firms18
Family firm perceptions and investment decisions: An experimental conjoint analysis of private equity investors17
Validating the FIBER scale to measure family firm heterogeneity – A replication study with extensions17
A multi-level model of family enterprise corruption17
Resolution of financial distress in SMEs: How do family ownership and involvement affect second chance?17
What makes Latin American family firms different? Moving beyond cross-cultural comparisons17
Untangling the yarn: A contextualization of human resource management to the family firm setting17
Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership16
Bringing context to the foreground: Explaining the early-stage career development of next-generation family business members15
Family Ownership Dispersion and Dividend Payout in Family Firms14
Acknowledgement to ad-hoc reviewers 202514
One for all, all for one: A mutual gains perspective on HRM and innovation management practices in family firms14
In family firms we trust – Experimental evidence on the credibility of sustainability reporting: A replication study with extension13
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Bridging generations: Managing cognitive conflicts during technology adoption in multigenerational family firms12
The family innovator’s dilemma revisited: Examining the association between family influence and incumbents’ adoption of discontinuous technologies12
Identity leadership in family businesses: The important role of nonfamily leaders11
Founding family firms and exploration orientation: Analysis of S&P 500 firms11
Modeling the effect of continuity and change as paradoxical forces in the inter-generational transition process of family businesses11
Family involvement, family essence, and family-centered non-economic and economic goals in Chinese family firms: A replication study11
Family business, community embeddedness, and civic wealth creation11
Differences and similarities in executive hiring decisions of family and non-family firms10
Event-sampling method with experimental design: A promising method for investigating microfoundational phenomena within family businesses10
Exploring the future of family enterprise research through a social science lens10
The influence of familiness on decision-making quality in top management teams: The role of emotional dissonance and perceived team support10
Advancing diversity research in family business10
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Reasons for internationalisation of family business10
The impact of family commitment on firm innovativeness: The mediating role of resource stocks9
Fulfillment or status: Job seekers’ reward expectations towards family and non-family employers8
An update on family firm succession: A systematic literature review and future research directions8
Time for a group hug? Toward a theory of shared emotional leadership in and of family business8
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?8
Are family firms’ export relationships more persistent?8
Socioemotional wealth (SEW) across borders: Integrating national context into SEW research7
Family businesses under COVID-19: Inspiring models – Sometimes7
Family ownership and M&A propensity in emerging market firms: Playing along the “rules of the game”7
Corporate venturing in family firms: A systematic literature review and future research agenda7
Family firms, founders, and the cross-section of stock returns7
Family firms and the labor productivity controversy: A distributional analysis of varying labor productivity gaps7
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