| The impact of the family and the business on family business sustainability PD Olson, VS Zuiker, SM Danes, K Stafford, RKZ Heck, KA Duncan Journal of business venturing 18 (5), 639-666, 2003 | 960 | 2003 |
| Evolving research in entrepreneurship and family business: Recognizing family as the oxygen that feeds the fire of entrepreneurship EG Rogoff, RKZ Heck Journal of business venturing 18 (5), 559-566, 2003 | 589 | 2003 |
| The effects of ethnicity, families and culture on entrepreneurial experience: An extension of sustainable family business theory SM Danes, J Lee, K Stafford, RKZ Heck Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13 (03), 229-268, 2008 | 459 | 2008 |
| The prevalence of family business from a household sample RKZ Heck, ES Trent Family Business Review 12 (3), 209-219, 1999 | 346 | 1999 |
| Revisiting the study of family businesses: Methodological challenges, dilemmas, and alternative approaches M Winter, MA Fitzgerald, RKZ Heck, GW Haynes, SM Danes Family business review 11 (3), 239-252, 1998 | 297 | 1998 |
| Emerging paths of family entrepreneurship research RKZ Heck, F Hoy, PZ Poutziouris, LP Steier Journal of Small Business Management 46 (3), 317-330, 2008 | 285 | 2008 |
| The importance of the family system in family business RK Zachary Journal of Family Business Management 1 (1), 26-36, 2011 | 257 | 2011 |
| The theory of entrepreneurship CS Mishra, RK Zachary Entrepreneurship research journal 5 (4), 251-268, 2015 | 231 | 2015 |
| Toward the cluster model: The family firm’s entrepreneurial behavior over generations N Michael-Tsabari, R Labaki, RK Zachary Family Business Review 27 (2), 161-185, 2014 | 198 | 2014 |
| The vital institution of family business: Economic benefits hidden in plain sight RKZ Heck, K Stafford Destroying myths and creating value in family business, 9-17, 2001 | 148 | 2001 |
| Strategy, ownership, governance, and socio-psychological perspectives on family businesses from around the world S Goel, P Mazzola, PH Phan, TM Pieper, RK Zachary Journal of Family Business Strategy 3 (2), 54-65, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| The family business dimension of entrepreneurship NB Upton, RKZ Heck Entrepreneurship, 243-266, 2000 | 137 | 2000 |
| Exploring the emotional nexus in cogent family business archetypes R Labaki, N Michael-Tsabari, RK Zachary Entrepreneurship Research Journal 3 (3), 301-330, 2013 | 103 | 2013 |
| A Commentary on “Entrepreneurship in Family vs. Non–Family Firms: A Resource–Based Analysis of the Effect of Organizational Culture” RKZ Heck Entrepreneurship theory and practice 28 (4), 383-389, 2004 | 103 | 2004 |
| 31 Emotional dimensions within the family business: towards a conceptualization R Labaki, N Michael-Tsabari, RK Zachary Handbook of research on family business, 734-63, 2013 | 97 | 2013 |
| Sampling minority business owners and their families: The understudied entrepreneurial experience AN Puryear, EG Rogoff, M Lee, RKZ Heck, EB Grossman, GW Haynes, ... Journal of Small Business Management 46 (3), 422-455, 2008 | 86 | 2008 |
| Home-based employment and family life RZ Heck, AJ Owen, BR Rowe Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 1995 | 80 | 1995 |
| The family's dynamic role within family business entrepreneurship RKZ Heck, SM Danes, MA Fitzgerald, GW Haynes, CR Jasper, ... Handbook of research on family business, 80-105, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| The future of entrepreneurship research: Calling all researchers RK Zachary, CS Mishra Entrepreneurship Research Journal 1 (1), 2011 | 62 | 2011 |
| Family entrepreneurship RKZ Heck, CS Mishra Journal of Small Business Management 46 (3), 313-316, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
