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 study systematizes and classifies the state-of-the-art of knowledge about innovation
and succession in family businesses. Our systematic literature review details the existing …

In this article, we provide guidelines that are useful to family business researchers when
deciding whether and how to use case studies as well as to reviewers and editors when …

This study explores family business succession. In this study, succession is compared to the
concept of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship. The motivations of successors …

Based on a review of 217 refereed articles on family business studies, the literature is
organized according to its focus on individual, interpersonal or group, organizational, and …

Given that less than 10% of family owned businesses (FOBs) survive into the third
generation, the issue of top executive succession has received a good deal of attention …

In spite of various calls for a wider application of qualitative research in the family business
field, it is our contention that the full potential of qualitative inquiry is not being fully realized …

Although research on management succession is a dominant topic in the family business
literature, little systematic attention has been given to the factors that prevent intra-family …

This paper uses the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize the influence of the
incumbent's desire to keep the business in the family, the family's commitment to 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 …