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Charting the Future of Family Business Research: Perspectives From the Field Research Question: What is the current state of research in family business studies and where might the field be headed? Reginald A. Litz, Allison W. Pearson, and Shanan Litchfield
The Landscape of Family Business Outcomes: A Summary and Numerical Taxonomy of Dependent Variables Research Question: What are the boundaries of family business studies? What dependent variables have been used in the literature? What are the relationships between these variables? Are there missing variables that deserve more attention in family business studies? Andy Yu, G. T. Lumpkin, Ritch L. Sorenson, and Keith H. Brigham
Why Can’t a Family Business Be More Like a Nonfamily Business? Modes of Professionalization in Family Firms Research Question: Why, despite repeated encouragement from outsiders, many family firms do not ‘professionalize? Are there performance differences between publicly held and private family vs. non-family firms? Alex Stewart and Michael A. Hitt
Worlds Apart? Rebridging the Distance Between Family Science and Family Business Research Research Question: What are the trends in usage of business vs. family science theories in family business studies? How can the theoretical approaches from family science inform family business studies, and conversely, those rooted in business inform family science studies? Albert E. James, Jennifer E. Jennings, and Rhonda S. Breitkreuz
The Distinctiveness, Design, and Direction of Family Business Research: Insights From Management Luminaries Research Question: What is distinctive about family business research? What research design implications emanate from this distinctiveness? What direction is the field heading into? Justin B. Craig and Carlo Salvato
Keeping the Family Business Healthy: How to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage From Great Family Businesses Reviewed by Frank Hoy
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