25 Years of Family Business Review

Environmental Performance Focus in Private Family Firms: The Role of Social Embeddedness

“…The significance of family businesses has been well established in academic research over the last decades (Sharma et al 2012). There has been a key interest in ascertaining whether family businesses outperform their nonfamily counterparts on multiple areas (Mazzi 2011).…”

“…There has been a key interest in ascertaining whether family businesses outperform their nonfamily counterparts on multiple areas (Mazzi 2011). Yet, the majority of this focus is directed toward publicly listed firms, thereby leaving certain issues indefinite in the private firm context (Sharma et al 2012). Across the world, family businesses are largely concentrated in the size group of SMEs, in which listed companies represent only a small portion.…”

Family Relations and Family Businesses: A Note From the Guest Editors

“…For the past three decades, research in this arena has been published in diverse academic journals (e.g., primarily management, entrepreneurship, psychology, economics, and, to a lesser degree, and family sciences; for recent reviews, see Debicki, Matherne, Kellermanns, & Chrisman, 2009;Gedajlovic, Carney, Chrisman, & Kellermanns, 2012;Sharma, Chrisman, & Gersick, 2012;Wright & Kellermanns, 2011;Yu, Lumpkin, Brigham, & Sorenson, 2012). Most of this research has broadly focused on the exploration and investigation of areas primarily related to the business side of the family business equation, involving topics such as goals and objectives (e.g., economic goals, goal formulation), strategy formulation and content (e.g., strategic planning, competitive advantage, business strategy, entrepreneurship), and management (e.g., leadership, professionalism, succession planning), with limited attention to the family relations and dynamics that undergird these family business issues (e.g., family functioning, stress, well-being, communication, family structure, value systems; Debicki et al, 2009).…”

Impact of Factors of Family Business on the Performance: A PLS-SEM Study

“…Due to the importance of their presence into the economy many researchers [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], still consider FBs as an increasing topic into the…”