Field Guide to Family Business Research

Edited by Keith H. Brigham, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director, Tom Love Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma and G. Tyge Payne, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems, Louisiana State University, US

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Field Guide to Family Business Research 1
Keith H. Brigham and G. Tyge Payne

PART I GENERAL CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
2 Planning your contribution and paths to publication in
family business research 7
Evelyn Micelotta
3 Unlocking the power of the three-circles paradigm 20
Justin B. Craig and G. T. Lumpkin
4 The important role of family business practice and its
influence on family business research 33
J. Kirk Ring, Jon C. Carr, and Nadine Kammerlander
5 Researching family-firm heterogeneity: a guide to
identifying firm-level categorical and variational differences 46
Joshua J. Daspit, James J. Chrisman, Vitaliy
Skorodziyevskiy, Sara Davis, and Triss Ashton
6 A methodological guide to advance family business
innovation research 61
Alfredo De Massis, Emanuela Rondi, and Paola Rovelli
7 What does the literature say? Performing a systematic
literature review in family business research 79
Chelsea Sherlock and Clay Dibrell

PART II QUALITATIVE CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
8 Making the case for single-case research on family business 95
Lori Tribble Trudell, Theodore Waldron, and James Wetherbe
9 The multicase study approach in family businesses:
opportunities and challenges 108
Nadine Kammerlander and Vanessa Diaz-Moriana
10 Qualitative research interviewing in family firms 125
Carlo Salvato and Guido Corbetta
11 Computer-aided text analysis in family business research:
guidelines and considerations 144
Danuse Bement and Jeremy C. Short

PART III QUANTITATIVE CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
12 Advancing the study of family firms through the use of
experimental designs 160
Isabel C. Botero and Tomasz A. Fediuk
13 Enhancing the validity of socio-emotional wealth:
a context-focused approach 173
Cristina Cruz, Mohamed Mazen M. Batterjee, and
Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso
14 Nonresponse bias in family business research 188
Matthew Rutherford and Duygu Phillips
15 Latent profile analysis: a focus on applications for family firms 200
Xin Gao (Joy), Laura Stanley and Franz W. Kellermanns
16 An introduction to the use of social network analysis in
family business research 214
Curt B. Moore and Karen Nicholas
17 Endogeneity and the family involvement–firm
performance relationship: on the daunting search for
instrumental variables 229
Wim Voordeckers, Alana Vandebeek and Ludo Peeters

Index