Family business or business family? Organizational identity elasticity and strategic responses to disruptive innovation

As long as you talk about me: The importance of family firm brands and the contingent role of family-firm identity

“…Family-firm identity, traditionally conceptualized as the degree to which the family identifies with the firm and sees the firm as an extension of the family (Chrisman et al, 2005;Zellweger et al, 2010), is considered one of the drivers of heterogeneity among family firms, with the potential to influence their goals and behaviors (Brinkerink, Rondi, Benedetti, & Arzubiaga, 2020;De Massis et al, 2018;Sundaramurthy & Kreiner, 2008;Zellweger et al, 2010). For instance, family firms with a particularly strong identity link between the family and the firmthe family is strongly involved in the business, and/or the family and the business share many of the same goals, values, beliefs, norms and interaction stylesare more likely to "acknowledge their family-owned status in their marketing and advertising" (Sundaramurthy & Kreiner, 2008, p. 419).…”

The Psychological Foundations of Management in Family Firms: Values, Biases, and Heuristics

“…Exploring the escalation of commitment in family firms, Chirico et al (2018) draw on emotional ownership and self-justification. Second, family firms frequently use the family surname as their brand name (or, more generally, their family identity in marketing strategies), which leads to a combination of two identities: the family identity and the business identity (Astrachan et al, 2019; Brinkerink et al, 2020; De Massis et al, 2018; Zellweger et al, 2010). Third, the nature of parental influence (especially that of father founders) may explain why sons and daughters employ specific heuristics (Lamb & Tamis-Lemonda, 2004).…”

The influence of family firm image on access to financial resources in family SMEs: a signaling theory perspective

“…In the case of family businesses, the overlap of the family and business systems provide a unique identity by which they can build a distinctive brand (Brinkerink et al 2020). Family firm image is regarded as an inimitable resource, comprising the family's unique history, the family and firm's values, and the identity embodied by family members over time (Blombäck 2011;Binz-Astrachan et al 2018;Zanon et al 2019).…”