The SAGE Handbook of Family Business captures the conceptual map and state-of-the-art thinking on family business – an area experiencing rapid global growth in research and education since the last three decades.
Edited by the leading figures in family business studies, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook reflects on the development and current status of family enterprise research in terms of applied theories, methods, topics investigated, and perspectives on the field′s future.
The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is divided into following six sections, allowing for ease of navigation while gaining a multi-dimensional perspective and understanding of the field.
Part I: Theoretical perspectives in family business studies
Part II: Major issues in family business studies
Part III: Entrepreneurial and managerial aspects in family business studies
Part IV: Behavioral and organizational aspects in family business studies
Part V: Methods in use in family business studies
Part VI: The future of the field of family business studies
By including critical reflections and presenting possible alternative perspectives and theories, this Handbook contributes to the framing of future research on family enterprises around the world. It is an invaluable resource for current and future scholars interested in understanding the unique dynamics of family enterprises under the rubric of entrepreneurship, strategic management, organization theory, accounting, marketing or other related areas.
Table of Content
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 Mc Kelvie, Aaron Mc Kenny, 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 Mc Kee, 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. Mc Kenny, 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
About the author
Pramo DITA 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. Her teaching cases have appeared in the Case Research Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Sharma is the past editor of SAGE published top ranked Family Business Review and a frequent speaker at gatherings of family business leaders. She serves as a trusted advisor to multi-generational family enterprises around the world.
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