“…These filters thus can help prevent conflict and paralysis that often occur in organizations exposed to equally important and competing institutional logics. Previous family firm research has distinguished family cultures and firm leadership styles (e.g., Dyer, 1986;Lansberg, 1983;Poza et al, 1997;Ward, 1987), speculating that these factors might be associated with how family firms pursue family and firm goals (Sorenson, 2000). However, until our study, the role these characteristics played in understanding the heterogeneity of family firm behaviors had not been analyzed in depth.…”