Publications

Selected publications (from 2016)

In bold are indicated CeFEO members: 

In press

• Almlöf, H., Sjögren, H. (in press). Owner-manager when death do us part - roles of a widow in sudden succession in family firms. Journal of Family Business Management.
  
• Arregle, J., Chirico, F., Kano, L., Kundu, S., Majocchi, A., Schulze, W. (2021). Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of International Business Studies.
• Banerjee, A., Nordqvist, M., Hellerstedt, K. (in press). The role of the board chair—A literature review and suggestions for future research. Corporate Governance: An International Review.
  
• Baù, M., Block, J., Discua Cruz, A., Naldi, L. (in press). Bridging locality and internationalization – A research agenda on the sustainable development of family firms. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development.
  
• Bauweraerts, J., Pongelli, C., Sciascia, S.(*), Mazzola, P., & Minichilli, A. (in press). Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?. Journal of Small Business Management, 1-32.
  
• Criaco, G.(*), Naldi, L., & Zahra, S. A. (in press). Founders’ Prior Shared International Experience, Time to First Foreign Market Entry, and New Venture Performance. Journal of Management.
• Eze, N., Nordqvist, M., Samara, G., Parada, M. (in press). Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Roles of Religion and Tradition for Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.
• Gillmore, E., Andersson, U., Ekman, P. (in press). The enduring effects of relational attributes on subsidiary evolution after mandate loss. Global Strategy Journal.
  
• Hashim, S., Naldi, L., Markowska, M. (in press). “The royal award goes to…”: Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures. The Journal of Family Business Strategy.
• Kimjeon, J., & Davidsson, P. (in press). External enablers of entrepreneurship: A review and agenda for accumulation of strategically actionable knowledge. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
  
• Maine, J., Florin-Samuelsson, E., Uman, T (forthcoming). Ambidextrous sustainability, organisational structure and performance in hybrid organisations. Accounting, Accountability and Auditing Journal.
  
• Malki, B., Uman, T., Pittino, D. (in press). The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: a literature review. Small Business Economics.
• Naldi, L., Baù, M., Ahl, H., Markowska, M. (in press). Gender (in)equality within the household and business start-up among mothers. Small Business Economics.
• Naldi, L., Nilsson, P., Westlund, H., Wixe, S. (in press). Amenities and new firm formation in rural areas. Rural Studies
• Patel, P., Lenka, S., Parida, V. (in press). Caste-Based Discrimination, Microfinance Credit Scores, and Microfinance Loan Approvals Among Females in India. Business & Society.
  
• Pittino, D., Visintin, F., Minichilli, A., & Compagno, C. (2021). Family involvement in governance and firm performance in industrial districts. The moderating role of the industry’s technological paradigm. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1-18.
  
• Quigley, T., Chirico, F., Baù, M. (in press). Does the CEO effect on performance differ in private versus public firms? Strategic Organization.
  
• Shen, W., Ponomareva, Y., Uman, T. (forthcoming). Can you catch two birds with one stone? The impacts of nominating committee composition on board monitoring and resource provision. Long Range Planning.
• Smith, C., Nordqvist, M., De Massis, A., & Miller, D. (in press). When so much is at stake: Understanding organizational brinkmanship in family business. Journal of Family Business Strategy.
• Symeonidou, N., DeTienne, D. R., & Chirico, F. (in press). The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?. Small Business Economics.
  
• Waldkirch, M.(*), Bucher, E., Schou, P. K., & Grünwald, E. (in press). Controlled by the algorithm, coached by the crowd–how HRM activities take shape on digital work platforms in the gig economy. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1-36.
  

2021

• Chirico, F., Welsh, D., Ireland, R., Sieger, P. (2021). Family versus non-family firm franchisors: Behavioral and performance differences. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 165-200.
  
• Ghosh, C., He, F., & Zhou, H. (2021). On the role of foreign directors: Evidence from cross-listed firms. Journal of Empirical Finance, 63, 177-202.
• Ramirez-Pasillas, M., Lundberg, H., Nordqvist, M. (2021). Next generation external venturing practices in family owned businesses. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 63-103.
  
• Waldkirch, M.(*), Kammerlander, N., & Wiedeler, C. (2021). Configurations for corporate venture innovation: Investigating the role of the dominant coalition. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(5), 106137.

2020

• Astrachan J., Binz-Astrachan C., Campopiano G., Baù, M. (2020). Values, Spirituality and Religion: Family Business and the Roots of Sustainable Ethical Behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 163, 637–645.
• Barbera, F., Shi, H. X., Agarwal, A., & Edwards, M. (2020). The Family That Prays Together Stays Together: Toward a Process Model of Religious Value Transmission in Family Firms. Journal of Business Ethics, 163, 661–673.
• Baù, M., Pittino, D., Sieger, P., Eddleston, K.A. (2020). Careers in family business: New avenues for careers and family business research in the 21st century. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 11(3), 100379.
• Chirico, F., Criaco, G., Baù, M., Naldi, L., Gomez-Mejia, L., Kotlar, J. (2020). To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 44(2), 339-367.
• Chirico, F., Gómez-Mejia, L., Hellerstedt, K., Withers, M., Nordqvist, M. (2020). To merge, sell or liquidate? Socioemotional wealth, family control, and the choice of business exit. Journal of Management 46(8), 1342-1379.
• Lauto, G., Pittino, D., Visintin, F. (2020). Satisfaction of entrepreneurs: A comparison between founders and family business successors. Journal of Small Business Management 58(3), 474-510.
• Li, H., Terjesen, S., Uman, T. (2020). Corporate Governance in Entrepreneurial Firms: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda. Small Business Economics, 54, 43-74.
  
• Markowska, M., Wiklund, J. (2020). Entrepreneurial learning under uncertainty: exploring the role of self-efficacy and perceived complexity. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 32(7-8), 606-628.
• Muñoz-Bullón, F., Sanchez-Bueno, M., Nordqvist, M. (2020). Growth intentions in family-based new venture teams: The role of the nascent entrepreneur’s R&D behavior. Management Decision 58(6), 1190-1209.
• Naldi, L., Criaco, G., Patel, P. (2020). Related and unrelated industry variety and the internationalization of start-ups. Research Policy 49(10).
• Naldi, L., Larsson, J., Westlund, H. (2020). Policy entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation in vulnerable Swedish municipalities. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 32(7-8), 473-491.
• Netz, J., Svensson, M., Brundin, E. (2020). Business disruptions and affective reactions: A strategy-as-practice perspective on fast strategic decision making. Long range planning 53(5).
• Nordqvist, M., & Gartner, W. B. (2020). Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business. Family Business Review.33(2).
• Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Baù, M., Villasana, M., Naranjo-Priego, E., Barron, E. (2020). Starting a family business as a career option: The role of the family household in Mexico. Journal of Family Business Strategy 11(2).
• Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Henssen, B., Broekaert, W. (2020). Does increased generational involvement foster business growth? The moderating roles of family involvement in ownership and management. European Management Review 17(3), 785-801.
• Uman, T., Smith, E., Andersson, W., Planken, W. (2020). Top management teams’ shared leadership and ambidexterity: the role of management control systems. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 86(3): 444-462.
  
• van Helvert-Beugels, J., Nordqvist, M., Flören, R. (2020). Managing tensions as paradox in CEO succession: The case of nonfamily CEO in a family firm. International Small Business Journal 38(3), 211-242.
• Zawadzki, M., Jałocha, B., Mazurkiewicz, G., Pluszyńska, A., Prawelska-Skrzypek, G. (2020). Unrooting management education and entrepreneurial self from neoliberal demands: An action research approach. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy 3(3), 265-290.
  

2019

• Balachandran, C., Wennberg, K., Uman, T. (2019). National culture diversity in new venture boards: The role of founders' relational demography. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 13(3), 410-434.
• Bauweraerts, J., Sciascia, S., Mazzola, P., Naldi, L. (2019). Family CEO and board service: Turning the tide for export scope in family SMEs. International Business Review 28(5).
• Baù, M., Chirico, F., Pittino, D., Backman, M., Klaesson, J. (2019). Roots to grow: Family firms and local embeddedness in rural and urban contexts. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice 43(2), 360-385.
• Brunninge, O., Hartmann, B. (2019). Inventing a past: Corporate heritage as dialectical relationships of past and present. Marketing Theory 19(2), 229-234
• Dąbrowska, J., Lopez-Vega, H., Ritala, P. (2019). Waking the sleeping beauty: Swarovski’s open innovation journey. R&D Management 49(5), 775-788.
• Evansluong, Q., Ramirez-Pasillas, M. (2019). The role of family social capital in immigrants’ entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 36(1-2), 164-188.
• Evansluong, Q., Ramirez-Pasillas, M., Nguyen Bergström, H. (2019). From breaking-ice to breaking-out: Integration as an opportunity creation process. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research25(5), 880-899.
• Iyer, D., Baù, M., Chirico, F., Patel, P., Brush, T. (2019). The triggers of local and distant search: Relative magnitude and persistence in explaining acquisition relatedness. Long Range Planning 52(5).
• Markowska, M., Grichnik, D., Brinckmann, J., Kapsa, D. (2019). Strategic orientations of nascent entrepreneurs: antecedents of prediction and risk orientation. Small Business Economics 53(4), 859-878.
• Patel, P. C., Criaco, G., & Naldi, L. (2018). Geographic diversification and the survival of born-globals. Journal of Management, 44(5), 2008-2036.
• 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.
• Sanchez-Famoso, V., Pittino, D., Chirico, F., Maseda, A., Iturralde, T. (2019). Social capital and innovation in family firms: The moderating roles of family control and generational involvement. Scandinavian Journal of Management 35(3).
• Wielsma, A., Brunninge, O. (2019). “Who am I? Who are we?”: Understanding the impact of family business identity on the development of individual and family identity in business families. Journal of Family Business Strategy 10(1), 38-48.
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2018

• Bjuggren, P., Nordström, L., Palmberg, J. (2018). Are female leaders more efficient in family firms than in non-family firms?. Corporate Governance. 18(2), 185-205
• Chirico, F., Salvato, C., Byrne, B., Akhter, N., & Arriaga Múzquiz, J. (2018). Commitment escalation to a failing family business. Journal of Small Business Management, 56(3), 494-512.
• Fitz-Koch, S., Nordqvist, M., Carter, S., & Hunter, E. (2018). Entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector: A literature review and future research opportunities. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 129-166.
• Patel, P., Criaco, G., Naldi, L. (2018). Geographic diversification and the survival of born-globals. Journal of Management 44(5), 2008-2036
• Pittino, D., Visintin, F., & Lauto, G. (2018). Fly away from the nest? A configurational analysis of family embeddedness and individual attributes in the entrepreneurial entry decision by next-generation members. Family Business Review, 31(3), 271-294.
• Pittino, D., Martínez, A. B., Chirico, F., & Galván, R. S. (2018). Psychological ownership, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: The moderating role of governance heterogeneity. Journal of Business Research, 84, 312-326.
• Waldkirch, M., Nordqvist, M., & Melin, L. (2018). CEO turnover in family firms: How social exchange relationships influence whether a non-family CEO stays or leaves. Human Resource Management Review, 28(1), 56-67.

2017

• Achtenhagen, L., Brunninge, O., Melin, L. (2017). Patterns of dynamic growth in medium-sized companies: beyond the dichotomy of organic versus acquired growth.  Long range planning, 50(4), 457-471.
• Baù, M., Sieger, P., Eddleston, K., Chirico, F. (2017). Fail but try again? The effects of age, gender, and multiple-owner experience on failed entrepreneurs’ reentry. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(6), 909-941.
• Boers, B., Ljungkvist, T., Brining, O., Nordqvist, M. (2017). Going private: A socioemotional wealth perspective on why family controlled companies decide to leave the stock-exchange.  Journal of Family Business Strategy, 8(2), 74-86.
• Criaco, G., Sieger, P., Wennberg, K., Chirico, F., Minola, T. (2017). Parents' performance in entrepreneurship as a "double-edged sword" for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 49(4), 841-864
• Fitz-Koch, S., Nordqvist, M. (2017). The Reciprocal Relationship of Innovation Capabilities and Socioemotional Wealth in a Family Firm. Journal of small business management, 55(4), 547-570
• Hoskisson, R., Chirico, F., Zyung, J., Gambeta, E. (2017). Managerial risk taking: A multi-theoretical review and future research agenda. Journal of Management, 43(1), 137-169.
• Visintin, F., Pittino, D., Minichilli, A. (2017). Financial performance and non‐family CEO turnover in private family firms under different conditions of ownership and governance. Corporate governance: An International Review, 25(5), 312-337
  

2016

• Akhter, N., Sieger, P., Chirico, F. (2016). If we can't have it, then no one should: Shutting down versus selling in family business portfolios. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 10(4), 371-394.
• Blombäck, A., Brunninge, O. (2016). Identifying the Role of Heritage Communication: A Stakeholder-Function Framework. International Studies of Management and Organization, 46(4), 256-268.
• Brunninge, O., Melander, A. (2016). The dynamics of path dependence on the individual, organizational and the field levels: MoDo, the Kempe family and the Swedish pulp and paper industry 1873–1990. Management & Organizational History, 11(2), 189-210.
• Carnes, C., Chirico, F., Hitt, M., Huh, D., Pisano, V. (2016). Resource Orchestration for Innovation: Structuring and Bundling Resources in Growth- and Maturity-Stage Firms.  Long Range Planning, 50(4), 472-486.
• Chirico, F., Salvato, C. (2016). Knowledge internalization and product development in family firms: When relational and affective factors matter. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40(1), 201-229.
• De Massis, A., Kotlar, J., Frattini, F., Chrisman, J., Nordqvist, M. (2016). Family governance at work: Organizing for new product development in family SMEs. Family Business Review, 29(2), 189-213.
• Fletcher, D., Massis, A., Nordqvist, M. (2016). Qualitative research practices and family business scholarship: A review and future research agenda. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 7(1), 8-25.
• Haag, K., Sund, L. (2016). Divorce in the family business: unfolding the legal problems by learning from practice. Journal of Family Business Management, 6(1), 81-96.
• Minola, T., Criaco, G., Obschonka, M. (2016). Age, culture, and self-employment motivation. Small Business Economics, 46(2), 187-213.
• Nordqvist, M. (2016). Socio-symbolic ownership: extending the socio-emotional wealth perspective. Management Research, 14(3), 244-257.
• Pittino, D., Visintin, F., Lenger, T., Sternad, D. (2016). Are high performance work practices really necessary in family SMEs?: An analysis of the impact on employee retention. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 7(2), 75-89.
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(*) CeFEO Affiliated Professor/Researcher indicating CeFEO as affiliation in their publication.

All publications

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