Delineating the Path of Family Firm Innovation: Mapping the Scientific Structure

Capobianco-Uriarte, María de las Mercedes; Martínez-Alonso, Rubén; Martínez‐Romero, María J.

doi:10.1007/s11846-021-00442-3

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“…Today, bibliometrics is a widely used instrument to measure the state of science [74]. As a specific bibliometric analysis, science mapping techniques structure the body of literature in a field based on quantitative measures that describe the connections between publications [74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85].…”

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Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research in Business and Management Literature: Results from a Co-Citation Analysis

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Tiberius

Brem

2021

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In coherence with the progressive digitalization of all areas of life, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a flourishing concept in both research and practice. Due to the increasing scholarly attention, the literature landscape has become scattered and fragmented. With a focus on the commercial application of the IoT and corresponding research, we employ a co-citation analysis and literature review to structure the field. We find and describe 19 research themes. To consolidate the extant research, we propose a research framework, which is based on a theoretical implementation process of IoT as a concept, specific IoT applications, or architectures integrated in an adapted input–process–output model. The main variables of the model are an initial definition and conceptualization of an IoT concept (input), which goes through an evaluation process (process), before it is implemented and can have an impact in practice (output). The paper contributes to interdisciplinary research relating to a business and management perspective on IoT by providing a holistic overview of predominant research themes and an integrative research framework.

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Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research in Business and Management Literature: Results from a Co-Citation Analysis

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2021

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“…Third, as we focus on a sample composed exclusively of family firms, we contribute to the rising research stream of family firm heterogeneity [101,102]. Family firm research has evolved from comparing the "average" family firm and the "average" nonfamily firm, toward the focus on how and why these firms are distinctive [103] and on the variations within this type of firm [1,101]. In this regard, our findings reveal differences in family firms' indebtedness depending on the level of female presence in corporate governance structures.…”

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“…In recent decades the activity of family firms has attracted the interest of academics, professionals, and managers worldwide, among other reasons, due to family firms' great contribution to GDP and employment in most economies around the world [1][2][3], which explains the significant increase in research on this type of business.…”

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Does the Female Presence in Corporate Governance Influence the Level of Indebtedness in Agri-Food Family Firms?

2021

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Family firms form the backbone of most of the world’s economies. While the issues surrounding family firms are diverse, gender diversity and its impact on the strategic and financial decisions of such firms is a topic that has generated significant debate in recent years. In particular, one of the most crucial unresolved questions is whether or not increasing the female presence in the family firms’ corporate governance bodies would be beneficial for improving their internal functioning. To shed new light on these issues, our study aims to examine the influence of gender diversity on the level of indebtedness of Spanish agri-food family firms. Specifically, and applying a risk-aversion perspective, the research goal is to analyse whether the female presence in corporate governance structures (board of directors, top management team and general shareholders’ meeting) influences the level of firm indebtedness. To test the suggested relationships, ordinary least square regression models were applied to a sample of 137 firms. The final sample was obtained by combining quantitative data from the SABI database and qualitative data from a survey conducted by the Spanish Institute of Family Firms and the Spanish Network of Family Business Chairs. This study reveals an inverse relationship of female presence in the board of directors, in the top management team, and in the general shareholders’ meeting on the level of indebtedness of Spanish agri-food family firms. In other words, the findings show that female presence in corporate governance structures contributes to enhanced business management behaviour and, thus, to a better utilisation of firms’ financing strategies. The obtained results have very important practical and social implications, insofar as they contribute to the building of a more inclusive and sustainable business world, aimed at reducing gender inequality at top positions in firms.

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“…Recently, scholars have started to devote considerable attention to the role of family firms in (product) innovation efficiency (e.g. Casado-Belmonte et al, 2021), given the prevalence of these businesses as the backbone of most industrialized and developed countries worldwide (Family Firm Institute, 2018). The central tenet of this research stream is that the idiosyncrasies of family firms render the transformation of innovation inputs into innovation outputs substantially more efficient, suggesting that family firms "do more with less" in their (product) innovation processes (Bendig et al, 2020;Duran et al, 2016;Matzler et al, 2015).…”

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Unleashing family firms' potential to do more with less: product innovation efficiency, family involvement in TMTs and technological collaborations

Martínez-Alonso

Martínez‐Romero

Ramirez

2022

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence of family involvement in TMTs on product innovation efficiency and the contingent role of technological collaborations, combining insights from the resource-based view and the behavioral agency model.Design/methodology/approachThis study empirically develops and tests the hypotheses using a longitudinal sample of 3,852 firm-year observations from Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2006–2016.FindingsThe results reveal that family involvement in TMTs positively influences product innovation efficiency. The results also show that such positive effect is weakened as technological collaborations increase, and varies according to the partner type with whom the cooperation agreement is established. Specifically, the findings indicate that collaboration with suppliers appear to be the least detrimental for product innovation efficiency in family firms, followed by collaborations with customers and research organizations.Practical implicationsFamily firms should consider appointing family members to their TMT to improve product innovation efficiency. Moreover, to enhance the effect of family management on product innovation efficiency, family managers should carefully select their technological partners.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first studies to theoretically explain and empirically demonstrate that family involvement in TMTs is a critical antecedent of product innovation efficiency and that technological collaborations moderate such link. Moreover, this study goes further in revealing that distinct types of partners have a differential moderating influence on the family involvement in TMTs-product innovation efficiency relationship. The results can be used to help managers and practitioners to boost innovation performance as well as to assist policymakers to design firm-level innovation policies to improve family firms' competitiveness.

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Delineating the Path of Family Firm Innovation: Mapping the Scientific Structure

Cited by 40 publications

References 163 publications

Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research in Business and Management Literature: Results from a Co-Citation Analysis

Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research in Business and Management Literature: Results from a Co-Citation Analysis

Does the Female Presence in Corporate Governance Influence the Level of Indebtedness in Agri-Food Family Firms?

Unleashing family firms' potential to do more with less: product innovation efficiency, family involvement in TMTs and technological collaborations

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