Corporate Social Performance of Family Firms: A Place-Based Perspective in the Context of Layoffs

Kim, Kihun; Haider, Zulfiquer Ali; Wu, Zhenyu; Dou, Junsheng

doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04152-5

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“…Our EU-27 data based study offers an interregional view of family firm concentrations and supplements the small number of pioneering studies on these issues at the national level (Chang et al, 2008 in the USA;Bird and Wennberg, 2014;Karlsson, 2018 in Sweden;Block and Spiegel, 2013 in Germany). We therefore move the debate beyond the employment growth advantages of family SMEs (as opposed to non-family ones) in less densely populated areas (Backman and Palmberg, 2015;Karlsson, 2018;Kim et al, 2019). We suggest that it is the firm type prevalence rather than the uniqueness of the family firm type that matters the most and influences how family firms interact with their environment.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Regional economic performance and the differential prevalence of corporate and family business

Bika

Rosa

2020

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Purpose Previous studies have largely examined interregional variations of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) rather than family firm concentrations. This paper aims to address this gap through an analysis of firm type indicators across Europe from the Eurostat database, using social, economic and demographic statistics at the NUTS 2 regional level to ascertain the nature, prevalence and regional contexts of family firm concentrations. Design/methodology/approach Hierarchical clustering is performed to map the regional distribution of the European family business. Findings Results show that the co-existence of family SMEs with large firms is negatively related to regional economic performance, and this variation has implications for the understanding of the survival and strategic behaviour of family firms. Originality/value The study promotes a new family business “in context” than “by context” point of view and paves the way for further empirical work with interregional family business data at various spatial levels.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Regional economic performance and the differential prevalence of corporate and family business

Bika

Rosa

2020

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“…Regarding the meso-context, employment in less sensitive to unanticipated sales and value-added shocks from industry in the Swedish (Bjuggren 2015) and French contexts (Sraer and Thesmar 2007). With regard to the macro-context, Kim et al (2020) study in the United States reveals that family firms are less likely to downsize, particularly when located in less populated areas, where the negative externalities resulting from massive layoffs would be higher. Finally, in a multi-country study, van Essen et al (2015) find that family firms are more resilient (i.e., less likely to downsize) than non-family firms both before and during crisis periods.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, it is in local communities characterized by close, reciprocal, and trust-based relationships that family firms are particularly likely to behave differently from their non-family counterparts. Family firms' strong territorial identity and deep emotional connection with their home locality (Kim et al 2020) may unveil further aspects in terms of employment practices. Additionally, future research could analyse social-spatial context alongside the temporal one.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contextualizing employment outcomes in family business research: current findings and future research avenues

2021

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The empirical evidence of family business phenomenon in terms of employment outcomes is contradictory highlighting the micro–macro gap in the existing research. To address this contradiction, our study disentangles the role of context in family firms’ employment outcomes. To do so, we conduct a systematic literature review of 67 articles focusing on three employment-related outcomes—namely, growth, downsizing, and quality of labour—published in peer-reviewed journals from 1980 to 2020. Based on a two-by-two framework to classify this extant research, we unpack what we know about family firms and employment outcomes and where we can go from here. We highlight three main findings. First, current research is context-less since has mainly focused on the firm level in one context (i.e., region or country) and there is a lack of studies comparing family firms’ employment outcomes in different contexts and explicitly measuring the effects of contextual dimensions on family firms’ employment outcomes. This context-less approach could explain the conflicting results and lack of theoretical predictability about the family effect on employment across contexts. Second, the lack of understanding of the context in which family firms dwell highlights the need for future research to focus on context by theorizing about employment outcomes—that is, measuring context and its interactions with family- and job-related variables. Third, there is a need to further explore, analyse, and theorize on the aggregate effect of family firms on employment outcomes at different level of analysis (e.g., local, regional, and national).

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“…Many scholars have found a positive relationship between ownership, especially family firm ownership, and CSR activities [74][75][76], including responsibility for investors, employees [77,78], and consumers [77]; community-related CSR [19]; environmental responsibility [17,20,77,[79][80][81]; legal and ethical responsibility [77]; corporate charitable donations [12,[82][83][84]; and the disclosure of CSR [66,85].…”

Section: Main Effect Of Ownership On Csr 41 Ownership Promoting Csrmentioning

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A Systematic Literature Review on Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Firms

Zhu

Zhou

2022

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has developed rapidly in recent years, and scholars have called for a more comprehensive picture of CSR research in family firms. In response to the call, this study conducts a systematic literature review of CSR activities in family firms from an important but understudied perspective: ownership. In addition to showing the divergent effects of ownership on family firm CSR, this research also reveals multiple mediating mechanisms and moderators for the above relationship and family ownership as a boundary condition for the relationships between family firm CSR and outcomes. Theories and methodological issues in past research are analyzed, and limitations and future research directions are also proposed.

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Corporate Social Performance of Family Firms: A Place-Based Perspective in the Context of Layoffs

Cited by 26 publications

References 93 publications

Regional economic performance and the differential prevalence of corporate and family business

Regional economic performance and the differential prevalence of corporate and family business

Contextualizing employment outcomes in family business research: current findings and future research avenues

A Systematic Literature Review on Ownership and Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Firms

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