Family Business Review
Journal of the Family Firm Institute
Other Titles in:
Business & Academic Skills | Organizational Behaviour (General) | Small Business/Entrepreneurship
Business & Academic Skills | Organizational Behaviour (General) | Small Business/Entrepreneurship
eISSN:
17416248 | ISSN:
08944865 | Current volume: 39 | Current issue: 1
Frequency: Quarterly
Published as a refereed journal since 1988, Family Business Review (FBR) is the leading scholarly publication devoted exclusively to exploration of the dynamics of family-controlled enterprise, including firms ranging in size from the very large to the relatively small. FBR is focused not only the entrepreneurial founding generation, but also on family enterprises in the 2nd and 3rd generation and beyond, including some of the oldest companies in the world. In addition, the journal publishes interdisciplinary research on families of wealth, family foundations and offices. The journal covers areas such as but not limited to the following:
- Succession planning
- Impact of family dynamics on managerial behaviors
- Estate and tax planning
- Liquidity issues
- Financial management
- Generation and gender issues
- Internationalization and Globalization of family enterprises
- Organizational structures
- Strategic planning and organizational changes in family firms
In order to continually expand the topical reach of the field and FBR, the editorial team is particularly interested in and encourages submissions using different theoretical and empirical lenses to examine the following topics that deeply impact family enterprises around the world:
- Advising and advocacy of family firms
- Heterogeneity and differences between family enterprises – public vs. private firms, large vs. small etc.
- Behavioral issues related to family enterprises such as trust, loyalty, conflict, identity, goals, values, motivation, commitment, leadership, emotions
- Addiction in family firms
- Family dynamics influencing family enterprises
- Family roles and relationships
- Law & family business
- Non-economic and economic outcomes
- Philanthropy and the family enterprise
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
All issues of FBR are available to browse online.
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Family Business Review (FBR) provides a scholarly forum to publish conceptual, theoretical and empirical research aimed to advance the understanding of family enterprise around the world. FBR publishes insightful articles that address issues at the interface of family and business systems. It is not tied to any particular discipline, methods, or topics.
Published since 1988, Family Business Review is an SSCI listed refereed journal devoted exclusively to exploration of the dynamics of family enterprise. Its interdisciplinary forum captures the insights of professions from diverse fields such as accounting, behavioral sciences, entrepreneurship, finance, management, family business and family wealth consulting, law and public policy.
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Editor
| Evelyn Micelotta | University of Vermont, USA |
Associate Editors
| Eric Clinton | Dublin City University, Ireland |
| Alfredo De Massis | IMD Business School, Switzerland and D’Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara, Italy |
| Hanqing "Chevy" Fang | Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA |
| Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh | Jönköping International Business School, Sweden |
| Josip Kotlar | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Benjamin D. McLarty | Louisiana Tech, USA |
| Emanuela Rondi | Politecnico Milano, Italy |
| Philipp Sieger | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Matthias Waldkirch | EBS Universitat fur Wirtschaft und Recht gGmbH, Germany |
Advisory Editorial Board
| Michael Carney | Concordia University, Canada |
| James J. Chrisman | Mississippi State University, USA |
| W. Gibb Dyer Jr. | Brigham Young University, USA |
| Eileen Fischer | York University, Canada |
| Luis Gomez-Mejia | Arizona State University, USA |
| R. Duane Ireland | Texas A & M University, USA |
| G. T. Lumpkin | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Leif Melin | Jönköping International Business School, Sweden |
| Danny Miller | HEC Montréal, Canada |
| Becky Reuber | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Pramodita Sharma | University of Vermont, USA |
| Lloyd Steier | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Shaker Zahra | University of Minnesota, USA |
Past Editors
| Ivan Lansberg, 1988-1993 | |
| Kelin E. Gersick, 1990-1993 | |
| Max S. Wortman Jr., 1993-1995 | |
| Joseph H. Astrachan, 1995-2008 | |
| Pramodita Sharma, 2008-2017 | University of Vermont, USA |
| Tyge Payne, 2018-2020 | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Don Neubaum, 2021-2025 | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
Review Board
| Jan-Philipp Ahrens | University of Mannheim, Germany |
| Matt Allen | Northwestern University, USA |
| Thomas H. Allison | Texas Christian University, USA |
| Mateja Andric | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Victoria Antin Yates | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Unai Arzubiaga | University of the Basque Country, Spain |
| Kevin Au | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Yannick Bammens | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Frank Barbera | Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada |
| Massimo Bau | Jönköping University, Sweden |
| Carlotta Benedetti | University of Venice, Italy |
| Fabian Bernhard | EDHEC Business School, France |
| Alexandra Bertschi-Michel | Freiburg University, Germany |
| Cristina Bettinelli | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Joern Block | Universität Trier, Germany |
| Tim Blumentritt | Kennesaw State University, USA |
| Isabel C. Botero | University of Louisville, USA |
| Maria Bracamonte Larios | University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA |
| Jasper Brinkerink | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Chris Broberg | Wichita State University, USA |
| Mara Brumana | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Sofia Brunelli | Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC, Italy |
| Sarah Burrows | Queen's University in Kingston, Canada |
| M. Katiuska Cabrera-Suarez | Universidad de Las palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain |
| Andrea Calabrò | IPAG Business School, France |
| Giovanna Campopiano | University of Bergamo, Italy |
| Paolo Capolupo | Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy |
| Donella Caspersz | The University of Western Australia, Australia |
| Erick Chang | Arkansas State University, USA |
| Hsiang-Lan Chen | National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan |
| Francesco Chirico | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Hsi-Mei Chung | I-Shou University, Taiwan |
| Alessandro Cirillo | University of Naples, Italy |
| Andrea Colli | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Christina Constantinidis | ESG UQAM, Canada |
| Rafel Crespí-Cladera | Universidad des les Illes Balears, Spain |
| James H. Davis | Utah State University, USA |
| Alexandra Dawson | Concordia University, Canada |
| Julia de Groote | Wuppertal University, Germany |
| Francesco Debellis | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Bart Debicki | University of Baltimore, USA |
| Julia DeGroote | University of Wuppertal, Germany |
| Cinzia Dessi | University of Cagliari, Italy |
| Rocki-Lee DeWitt | University of Vermont, USA |
| Vanessa Diaz-Moriana | University Pablo de Olavide, Spain |
| Clay Dibrell | University of Mississippi, USA |
| Marleen Dieleman | International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland |
| Kimberly A. Eddleston | Northeastern University, USA |
| Paula Englis | Berry College, USA |
| Robert Evert | US Air Force Academy, USA |
| Catherine Faherty | University City Dublin, Ireland |
| Patrick Raymund James Garcia | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Bingbing Ge | Lancaster University, UK |
| Elena Giovannoni | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Ana Gonzalez | Grand Valley State University, USA |
| Chris Graves | The University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Kajsa Haag | Jönköping International Business School , Sweden |
| David Jiang | Elon University, USA |
| Franz W. Kellermanns | University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA |
| Alexander Kessler | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria |
| Roland E. Kidwell | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Taewoo Kim | University of Louisiana, USA |
| Rania Labaki | EDHEC Business School, France |
| Isabelle Le Breton-Miller | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Yan Ling | Oakland University, USA |
| Kristen Madison | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Vittoria Magrelli | University of Pescara-Chieti, Italy |
| Luca Manelli | Milan Polytechnic, Italy |
| Alexander McKelvie | Syracuse University, USA |
| Michele Medina-Craven | Mississippi State University, USA |
| Esra Memili | University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA |
| Nava Michael-Tsabari | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Anneleen Michiels | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Alessandro Minichilli | Bocconi University, Italy |
| Ivan Miroshnychenko | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies - Pisa, Italy |
| Marco Mismetti | Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
| Curt Moore | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Fernando Munoz-Bullon | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain |
| Donata Mussolino | University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| Pankaj Patel | Villanova University, USA |
| John Perry | Wichita State University, USA |
| Duygu Phillips | University of Delaware, USA |
| Torsten M. Pieper | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Shameen Prashantham | China Europe International Business School, China |
| Miruna Radu-Lefebvre | Audencia Business School,France |
| Mia Raynard | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Melanie Richards | TUM School of Management, Germany |
| J. Kirk Ring | Louisiana Tech University, USA |
| Matt Rutherford | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Carlo Salvato | Bocconi University, Italy |
| María José Sánchez Bueno | University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain |
| William Schulze | University of Utah, USA |
| Salvatore Sciascia | LIUC Università Cattaneo, Italy |
| Kristen Shanine | Middle Tennessee State University, USA |
| Chelsea Sherlock | Mississippi State University, USA |
| Jeremy S. Short | University of North Texas, USA |
| Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy | University of Louisville, USA |
| Sohrab Soleimanof | Louisiana State University, USA |
| Tensie Steijvers | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Lori Tribble Trudell | Clemson University, USA |
| Marc van Essen | University of South Carolina, US |
| James Vardaman | The University of Memphis, USA |
| Elmarie Venter | Nelson Mandela University, South Africa |
| Wim Voordeckers | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Justin W. Webb | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Zhenyu Wu | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Torsten Wulf Philipps | University of Marburg, Germany |
| Kai Xu | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Andy Yu | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA |
| Thomas Zellweger | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |