TY - JOUR

T1 - Family firm research: sketching a research field

AU - Kraus, Sascha

AU - Harms, Rainer

AU - Fink, Matthias

PY - 2011/2

Y1 - 2011/2

N2 - Due to the importance of family firms for the economy, researchers have begun to embrace family firms as a research object. This article seeks to summarise and to structure family firm research based on an extensive survey of the literature. Important research foundations such as the definition of family firms, a theoretical foundation in the resource based view and in entrepreneurship and research topics such as performance differences of family firms, their goal structure, psychological ownership and business succession are outlined and discussed.

AB - Due to the importance of family firms for the economy, researchers have begun to embrace family firms as a research object. This article seeks to summarise and to structure family firm research based on an extensive survey of the literature. Important research foundations such as the definition of family firms, a theoretical foundation in the resource based view and in entrepreneurship and research topics such as performance differences of family firms, their goal structure, psychological ownership and business succession are outlined and discussed.

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Familiness

KW - Family firms

KW - Ownership

KW - RBV

KW - Resource-based view

KW - SME

KW - Succession

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79751470411&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1504/IJEIM.2011.038446

DO - 10.1504/IJEIM.2011.038446

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 13

SP - 32

EP - 47

JO - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

SN - 1368-275X

IS - 1

ER -