We use a social exchange perspective to review family firm succession literature owing to its
fit with the multiphase, multistakeholder nature of the process. We searched the history of 34 …

This article focuses on how family business succession research has engaged and may be
further enriched by application of a gender lens as socially constructed. We analyze the …

Although successor commitment toward family business has been identified as a key
desirable attribute, commitment has been treated as a unidimensional construct in family …

A growing number of articles emphasise the importance of establishing an effective system
of family governance, and a synthesis of the existing literature on family governance …

This White Paper, commissioned by the Coleman Foundation and US Association of Small
Business and Entrepreneurship, has three specific objectives. The first is to provide a review …

“The Next Generations” in family firms are the key to the survival of the sector, yet gaps
remain in the knowledge about their relationship with the firm. This research focuses on the …

This article offers a socio-historical view of how families make a living and contribute to
business formation. We review the history of family changes that occurred over the last …

In this study, we identified and analyzed 75 articles in the family business (FB) literature
between 2000 and 2014 as to the case study design they adopted. We found that the …

We examine the practice of nepotism in the Arab World and analyze how a rational-legal
model of bureaucracy was never able to take hold. We draw upon ideas from institutional …

Based on stewardship theory and social role theory, we examine the bounded nature of
nonfamily employees' individual stewardship behaviors (ie, organizational citizenship …