Family Firm - A Distinctive Form of Organization

This Element reinvigorates calls to explore avenues to further integrate the research fields of Organization Theory (OT) and Family Business (FB). It presents the family business literature in management journals and categorizes these papers based on four types of theoretical contribution: Embedded, Integrative, Challenger and Generalized. It discusses opportunities for dialogue between FB and OT for each type in three research domains: (i) managing hybridity, (ii) mastering tensions, dualities, and paradoxes, and (iii) modelling time and temporality.

List of contents

1. Family business research and organization studies; 2. A brief history of research in the family business domain; 3. Family business contributions in management journals; 4. Suggestions for advancing FB research through organization theories and advancing OT through family business research; 5. Concluding thoughts.

Summary

This Element reinvigorates calls to explore avenues to research on Organization Theory (OT) and Family Business (FB) in three areas: hybridity, paradoxes, and temporality.

Foreword

This Element explores avenues to integrate research on organization theory and family business.

Product details

• Authors: Carlotta Benedetti, Evelyn Micelotta, Evelyn (University of Ottawa) Benedetti Micelotta, Paola Rovelli
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781009087612
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0908761-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Organization Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, business strategy, Organizational theory and behaviour, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises