The SAGE Handbook of Family Business

Leif Melin, PhD, is Professor of Strategy and Organisation and the Hamrin Professor of Family Business Strategy at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). He is the founding and past Director of  Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO). He has served as Dean and Managing Director for JIBS. He was a founding researcher of the STEP project ( Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) and has served as member for the Global STEP Project Board. In 2012, he was honored with the International award at the 26th anniversary conference of the Family Firm Institute, and he was also selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar. He is the founder and annual co-chair of the EIASM Family Firm Research Workshop. He has published in international journals and book volumes, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Long Range Planning and Family Business Review.  He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. Mattias Nordqvist, PhD, is Professor of Business Administration and the Hamrin International Professor of Family Business. He is the Director of Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership (CeFEO) and on the faculty of Department of Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization and Leadership (ESOL) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden where he has also served as an Associate Dean. Mattias is a former Co-Director of the Global STEP Project and Visiting Scholar at Babson College, USA, University of Alberta, Canada and Bocconi University, Italy. He was selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar twice; 2007-2008 and 2011-2012 by the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA, and won the Family Firm Institute (FFI) Award for Best Unpublished Research Paper twice; 2005 and 2011. Mattias is a recipient of the Young Entrepreneurship Researcher Award 2006 from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. He is a co-founding Associate Editor of Journal of Family Business Strategy. PramoDITA Sharma is a Professor and the Schlesinger-Grossman Chair of Family Business at the Grossman School of Business (GSB) at the University of Vermont and a visiting scholar at family enterprise centers at the Indian School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Dita teaches entrepreneurial family business courses in-person and on-line at all levels of education. Her research focused on trans-generational entrepreneurship and continuity, sustainability and governance of family enterprises, has appeared in over fifty scholarly articles and eleven books including the SAGE Handbook of Family Business, Entrepreneurs in Every Generation, Patient Capital: The Role of Family Firms in Sustainable Business, and the 2021 release Pioneering Family Firms’ Sustainable Development Strategies. Her teaching cases have appeared in the Case Research Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Sharma is the past editor of SAGE published top ranked Family Business Review and a frequent speaker at gatherings of family business leaders. She serves as a trusted advisor to multi-generational family enterprises around the world.

The SAGE Handbook of Family Business is must-reading for anyone interested in the field of family business - scholars, consultants, and practitioners alike.  The volume represents the best in theoretical grounding, critical research findings, and managerial information required to better understand, study and operate family firms.  It also outlines promising paths for future research.  Bravo to the authors and editors.

• 1. Introduction: Scope, evolution, and future of family business studies - Pramodita Sharma, Leif Melin and Mattias Nordqvist Part I: Theoretical Perspectives in Family Business Studies2. Theories from family science: A review and roadmap for family business research - Jennifer E. Jennings, Rhonda S. Breitkreuz and Albert E. James 3. Theories from family psychology and family therapy - Arist von Schlippe and Klaus A. Schneewind4. The anthropology of family business: An imagined ideal - Alex Stewart5. Sociological theories applied to family business - Martha Martinez and Howard Aldrich 6. Economic theories of family firms - Prashant Shukla, Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic 7. Evolutionary theory: A new synthesis for family business thought and research - Nigel Nicholson8. Family business inquiry as a critical social science - Denise FletcherPart II: Major Issues in Family Business Studies9. Financial performance of family firms - Raphael Amit and Belen Villalonga10. Family-controlled firms and stakeholder management: A socioemotional wealth preservation perspective - Pascual Berrone, Cristina Cruz and Luis R. Gomez-Mejia11. Governing the family enterprise: Practices, performance and research - Kelin E. Gersick and Neus Feliu12. Governance in family firms: A review and research agenda - Sanjay Goel, Iiro Jussila and Tuuli Ikäheimonen 13. Management succession in family business - Rebecca G. Long and James J. Chrisman14. Business history and family firms - Andrea Colli and Paloma Fernández PérezPart III: Entrepreneurial and Managerial Aspects in Family Business Studies15. Strategic content and process in family business - Carlo Salvato and Guido Corbetta 16. Resource based view of family firms - Sabine B. Rau17. Corporate entrepreneurship in family business: Past contribution and future opportunities - Alexander McKelvie, Aaron McKenny, G.T. Lumpkin and Jeremy C. Short18. Habitual and portfolio entrepreneurship in the family context: longitudinal perspectives - Peter Rosa, Carole Howorth and Allan Discua Cruz19. Stewardship and accountability: Accounting and the family business - Keith Duncan and Ken Moores 20. Internationalization of family firms - Zulima Fernández and Maria Jesús Nieto21. Marketing from a family business perspective - Anna Blombäck and Justin Craig 22. Family firms and social innovation: Cultivating organizational embeddedness - Shaker A. Zahra, Rania Labaki, Sondos G. Abdel Gawad and Salvatore SciasciaPart IV: Behavioral and Organizational Aspects in Family Business Studies23. Values in family businesses - Ritch L. Sorenson24. Organizational identity and family business - David Whetten, Peter Foreman and Gibb W. Dyer25. Trust and family businesses - Lloyd Steier and Miriam Muethel26. Conflicts in family firms: The good and the bad - D’Lisa McKee, Timothy M. Madden, Franz W. Kellermanns and Kimberly A. Eddleston 27. Emotions in family firms - Ethel Brundin and Charmine HärtelPart V: Methods in Use in Family Business Studies28. Scales in family business studies - Allison W. Pearson, Daniel T. Holt and Jon C. Carr29. Qualitative methods in family business research - Trish Reay and Zhen Zhang30. Multilevel analysis in family business studies - Aaron F. McKenny, G. Tyge Payne, Miles A. Zachary and Jeremy C. ShortPart VI – The Future of the Field of Family Business Studies31. The future of family business research through the family scientist’s lens - Sharon M. Danes32. Entrepreneurial venturing for family business research - Frank Hoy 33. Practice what we preach? Developing the next generation of family business scholars - Alexandra Dawson34. Developing the field of family business research: Legitimization, theory, and distinctiveness - David G. Sirmon35. Toward a paradox perspective of family firms: The moderating role of collective mindfulness of controlling families - Thomas Zellweger