The Sage Handbook of Family Business

Informationen zum Autor Leif Melin , PhD, is Professor of Strategy and Organisation and the Hamrin Professor of Family Business Strategy at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). He is the founding and past Director of  Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO). He has served as Dean and Managing Director for JIBS. He was a founding researcher of the STEP project ( Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) and has served as member for the Global STEP Project Board. In 2012, he was honored with the International award at the 26th anniversary conference of the Family Firm Institute, and he was also selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar. He is the founder and annual co-chair of the EIASM Family Firm Research Workshop. He has published in international journals and book volumes, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning and Family Business Review.  He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. Mattias Nordqvist , PhD, is Professor of Business Administration and the Hamrin International Professor of Family Business. He is the Director of Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO) and on the faculty of Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization and Leadership (ESOL) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden where he has also served as an Associate Dean. Mattias is a former Co-Director of the Global STEP Project and Visiting Scholar at Babson College, USA, University of Alberta, Canada and Bocconi University, Italy. He was selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar twice; 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 by the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA, and won the Family Firm Institute (FFI) Award for Best Unpublished Research Paper twice; 2005 and 2011. Mattias is a recipient of the Young Entrepreneurship Researcher Award 2006 from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. He is a co-founding Associate Editor of Journal of Family Business Strategy . PramoDITA Sharma is a Professor and the Schlesinger-Grossman Chair of Family Business at the Grossman School of Business (GSB) at the University of Vermont and a visiting scholar at family enterprise centers at the Indian School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Dita teaches entrepreneurial family business courses in-person and on-line at all levels of education. Her research focused on trans-generational entrepreneurship and continuity, sustainability and governance of family enterprises, has appeared in over fifty scholarly articles and eleven books including the  SAGE Handbook of Family Business , Entrepreneurs in Every Generation , Patient Capital: The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business , and the 2021 release Pioneering Family Firms’ Sustainable Development Strategies<...

List of contents

1. Introduction: Scope, evolution, and future of family business studies - Pramodita Sharma, Leif Melin and Mattias Nordqvist
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives in Family Business Studies
2. Theories from family science: A review and roadmap for family business research - Jennifer E. Jennings, Rhonda S. Breitkreuz and Albert E. James
3. Theories from family psychology and family therapy - Arist von Schlippe and Klaus A. Schneewind
4. The anthropology of family business: An imagined ideal - Alex Stewart
5. Sociological theories applied to family business - Martha Martinez and Howard Aldrich
6. Economic theories of family firms - Prashant Shukla, Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic
7. Evolutionary theory: A new synthesis for family business thought and research - Nigel Nicholson
8. Family business inquiry as a critical social science - Denise Fletcher
Part II: Major Issues in Family Business Studies
9. Financial performance of family firms - Raphael Amit and Belen Villalonga
10. Family-controlled firms and stakeholder management: A socioemotional wealth preservation perspective - Pascual Berrone, Cristina Cruz and Luis R. Gomez-Mejia
11. Governing the family enterprise: Practices, performance and research - Kelin E. Gersick and Neus Feliu
12. Governance in family firms: A review and research agenda - Sanjay Goel, Iiro Jussila and Tuuli Ikäheimonen
13. Management succession in family business - Rebecca G. Long and James J. Chrisman
14. Business history and family firms - Andrea Colli and Paloma Fernández Pérez
Part III: Entrepreneurial and Managerial Aspects in Family Business Studies
15. Strategic content and process in family business - Carlo Salvato and Guido Corbetta
16. Resource based view of family firms - Sabine B. Rau
17. Corporate entrepreneurship in family business: Past contribution and future opportunities - Alexander McKelvie, Aaron McKenny, G.T. Lumpkin and Jeremy C. Short
18. Habitual and portfolio entrepreneurship in the family context: longitudinal perspectives - Peter Rosa, Carole Howorth and Allan Discua Cruz
19. Stewardship and accountability: Accounting and the family business - Keith Duncan and Ken Moores
20. Internationalization of family firms - Zulima Fernández and Maria Jesús Nieto
21. Marketing from a family business perspective - Anna Blombäck and Justin Craig
22. Family firms and social innovation: Cultivating organizational embeddedness - Shaker A. Zahra, Rania Labaki, Sondos G. Abdel Gawad and Salvatore Sciascia
Part IV: Behavioral and Organizational Aspects in Family Business Studies
23. Values in family businesses - Ritch L. Sorenson
24. Organizational identity and family business - David Whetten, Peter Foreman and Gibb W. Dyer
25. Trust and family businesses - Lloyd Steier and Miriam Muethel
26. Conflicts in family firms: The good and the bad - D'Lisa McKee, Timothy M. Madden, Franz W. Kellermanns and Kimberly A. Eddleston
27. Emotions in family firms - Ethel Brundin and Charmine Härtel
Part V: Methods in Use in Family Business Studies
28. Scales in family business studies - Allison W. Pearson, Daniel T. Holt and Jon C. Carr
29. Qualitative methods in family business research - Trish Reay and Zhen Zhang
30. Multilevel analysis in family business studies - Aaron F. McKenny, G. Tyge Payne, Miles A. Zachary and Jeremy C. Short
Part VI - The Future of the Field of Family Business Studies
31. The future of family business research through the family scientist's lens - Sharon M. Danes
32. Entrepreneurial venturing for family business research - Frank Hoy
33. Practice what we preach? Developing the next generation of family business scholars - Alexandra Dawson
34. Developing the field of family business research: Legitimization, theory, and distinctiveness - David G. Sirmon
35. Toward a paradox perspective of family firms: The moderating role of collective mindfulness of controlling families - Thomas Zellweger

Report

The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is must-reading for anyone interested in the field of family business - scholars, consultants, and practitioners alike.  The volume represents the best in theoretical grounding, critical research findings, and managerial information required to better understand, study and operate family firms.  It also outlines promising paths for future research.  Bravo to the authors and editors. Danny Miller 20130617

Product details

• Authors: Leif Melin, Leif (EDT)/ Nordqvist Melin, Mattias Nordqvist, Pramodita Sharma, Pramodita Nordqvist Sharma
• Assisted by: Leif Melin (Editor), Melin Leif (Editor), Mattias Nordqvist (Editor), Nordqvist Mattias (Editor), Pramodita Sharma (Editor), Sharma Pramodita (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780857023636
• ISBN: 978-0-85702-363-6
• No. of pages: 696
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 255 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises