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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Coupling family business research with organization studies: interpretations, issues and insights
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Carlo Salvato
  • Francesco Chirico
  • Leif Melin
  • David Seidl
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Organization Studies
Publisher Sage Publications
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0170-8406
Volume 40
Number 6
Page Range 775 - 791
Date 2019
Abstract Text 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.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1177/0170840619841402
Other Identification Number merlin-id:18104
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