Advancing Organization Studies in Family Business Research

Chirico F., Melin L., Salvato C., Seidl D.
Organization Studies, 40(6), 2019

Guest Editors

Carlo Salvato, Bocconi University, Italy

Francesco Chirico, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

Leif Melin, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden

David Seidl, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

Family-controlled firms are the most widespread form of business organization, but they have so far attracted limited attention from organizational scholars. The present work suggests that coupling research on family business organizations with organization studies will substantially benefit both areas of scholarly research. We explore how the five core defining features of family firms – ownership, management and governance, transgenerational intention, generational involvement and perceived identity – may be illuminated by extant research in organization studies, and how, in turn, organizational studies may be extended by investigating its key themes in the empirical context of family firms.

Editorial

• Salvato, C., Chirico, F., Melin, L., & Seidl, D. (2019). Coupling family business research with organization studies: Interpretations, issues and insights. Organization Studies, 40(6), 775-791.

Articles in this Special Issue

• Sasaki, I., Ravasi, D., & Micelotta, E. (2019). Family firms as institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multi-centenary shinise in Kyoto. Organization Studies, 40(6), 793-831.
• Ge, J., & Micelotta, E. (2019). When does the family matter? Institutional pressures and corporate philanthropy in China. Organization Studies, 40(6), 833-857.
• Vincent Ponroy, J., Lê, P., & Pradies, C. (2019). In a family way? A model of family firm identity maintenance by non-family members. Organization Studies, 40(6), 859-886.
• Lingo, E. L., & Elmes, M. B. (2019). Institutional preservation work at a family business in crisis: Micro-processes, emotions, and nonfamily members. Organization Studies, 40(6), 887-916.
• Kim, H., Hoskisson, R. E., & Zyung, J. D. (2019). Socioemotional favoritism: Evidence from foreign divestitures in family multinationals. Organization Studies, 40(6), 917-940.

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