A Research Agenda for Family Business

Edited by Andrea Calabrò, Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship, IPAG Chair for Sustainable Family Business and Entrepreneurship Director, Academic Director - STEP Project Global Consortium, IPAG Business School, France

Contents:

Introducing A Research Agenda for Family Business by Andrea Calabrò xv
1 Family trends shaping the family business landscape 1
Joyce Kox and Astrid Kramer
2 Developing a “sociological imagination” of families
in family business research 15
Eric R. Kushins and Elaina Behounek
3 History as a source and method for family business
research 29
Christina Lubinski and William B. Gartner
4 Engaging the next generation of family members
through work: adolescence and beyond 61
Marjan Houshmand, Marc-David L. Seidel and Dennis Ma
5 Entrepreneurial legacy: how narratives of the past,
present and future affect entrepreneurship in
business families 73
Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Vincent Lefebvre, Jean
Clarke and William B. Gartner
6 From turmoil to synergism: how business leaders’
human resource mental models and family control
impact employees 87
Chiung-Wen Tsao and Shyh-Jer Chen
7 Diversity on family firm boards: a research agenda
for 2020–30 103
Mary Barrett and Ken Moores
8 The role of vision in determining family, small
business and minority ethnic business research 121
Claire Seaman and Richard Bent
9 Strategic and organizational choices in family
firms: introducing sense-making 135
Luca Gnan and Giulia Flamini
10 Advancing research on creativity in family firms 157
Julia Vincent Ponroy and Dianne H.B. Welsh
11 Changing landscape of Indian family businesses 169
Kavil Ramachandran, Sougata Ray and
Yashodhara Basuthakur
12 Spatial familiness: a bridge between family
business and economic geography 185
Rodrigo Basco and Lech Suwala
13 Family-owned MNEs and transparency: a focus on
corruption risk in host countries 203
Matteo Caroli, Claudia Pongelli and Alfredo Valentino
14 Financing the growth of the family business:
a research agenda 215
Alessandro Cirillo, Alexandra Dawson, Anneleen
Michiels and Donata Mussolino
15 Innovation in family business groups: going beyond
an R&D perspective 231
Marita Rautiainen, Suvi Konsti-Laakso and Timo Pihkala
16 The digitalization of family firms: a research agenda 247
Catherine E. Batt, Peter Cleary, Martin R.W. Hiebl,
Martin Quinn and Pall M. Rikhardsson
17 Digital business transformation in family firms:
how the owning family sets the scene 261
Ann Sophie Löhde, Giovanna Campopiano and
Daniela Gimenez Jiménez
Conclusion
Andrea Calabrò

Index 279