Organizational Behavior

Year of Grant	Title of Research	Grant Recipient	Title of Publication	Journal	Abstract
2019	The Role of Organizational and individual Identities in Succession Planning in Family Businesses		Not Yet Published
2014	Organizational Crises in Family Firms: The Effects on Intergenerational Innovation	Francesco, Barbera - Stetson University Stamm, Isabell - University of California, Berkeley DeWitt,Rocki-Lee - University of Vermont	The Development of an Entrepreneurial Legacy: Exploring the Role of Anticipated Futures in Transgenerational Entrepreneurship	Family Business Review June 14, 2018	Entrepreneurial legacies play an important role in transgenerational entrepreneurship, yet little is known about their nature and development. Through a multilayered analysis of narratives drawn from three generations of a single business family, we document that entrepreneurial legacies feature both stable and fluid elements, and that forward-looking components in family storytelling—which we refer to as “anticipated futures”—affect this dynamic character. We further show how such narratives can prompt, sustain, and disrupt entrepreneurship across multiple generations. Our findings offer insights that refine our understanding of entrepreneurial legacies beyond mere projections of the past through secondhand imprinting. Organizational Crises in Family Firms: The Effects on Intergenerational Innovation
2014	Bridging the Gap in Family Firm Innovation Research: Understanding Differences by Integrating Absorptive Capacity	Daspit, Joshua J. - Mississippi State University Long, Rebecca G. - Mississippi State University	How familiness affects innovation outcomes via absorptive capacity: A dynamic capability perspective of the family firm	Journal of Family Business Strategy December 2018	Familiness, the unique bundle of resources associated with the family’s involvement in the firm, affects firm outcomes; yet, how familiness affects the internal dynamics of the family firm to yield outcomes, such as innovation, remains unclear. To this end, we use a dynamic capability perspective to propose that familiness affects absorptive capacity, a knowledge-specific dynamic capability, through which the firm’s innovation outcomes are influenced. Further, we acknowledge how these relationships are altered by the involvement of nonfamily members in the family firm. The conceptual model offered highlights the role of absorptive capacity in understanding how familiness affects innovation outcomes and elucidates the heterogeneity across family firms that results from nonfamily member involvement. Bridging the Gap in Family Firm Innovation Research: Understanding the Differences by Integrating Absorptive Capacity
2013	The Buck Stops Here…and Here: A Study of Co-CEOs in Family Business	Annette, Rahael - George Washington University	Not Yet Published
2013	Investigative Long-Term orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Multi-generational Family Firms	Craig, Justin - Northeastern University Clinton, Eric - Dublin City University Diaz, Vanessa - Dublin City University		Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice September 27, 2018	Drawing on the transgenerational entrepreneurship perspective, we employ a multiple case study approach to investigate why multigenerational family firms innovate. The data collection process drew upon five in-depth cases comprising 42 semi-structured interviews, 25 participant observations, and several thousand pages of historical data dating from 1916 to 2017. We find patterns on how the firms’ long-term view—embracing both the past and the future—influences the innovation motives of these firms. Specifically, we identify three innovation patterns: conserving, persisting and legacy-building. We introduce a set of propositions and a framework linking long-term orientation dimensions to innovation motives and innovation outcomes. Our research thus contributes to a more fine-grained understanding of innovation behavior in family firms. Investigative Long-Term Orientation and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Mult-generational Family Firms
2012	Exploring the Role of Spiritual Leadership within Family Firms	Day, Kristen - University of Tennessee Kellermann, Franz - University of Tennessee	Is the Spiritual Bond Bound by Blood? An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Leadership in Family Firms	Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion January 2013	Our research is one of the first to examine spiritual leadership, which lies at the crossroads of workplace spirituality and transcendental leadership, within the context of family firms. We describe how the unique characteristics of family firms allow for and encompass spiritual leadership. First, we adapt the construct of spiritual leadership to the firm level. Then, analyzing dyadic data, we provide empirical support for the emerging theory of spiritual leadership by linking the spiritual bond between leader and follower to organizational citizenship behavior, a new dependent variable in the nomological net of spiritual leadership. We further explore the relationship in subsets of our data, finding that the relationship holds for family members but does not hold for non-family employees of the family business. Implications and avenues for future research are discussed. Exploring the Role of Spiritual Leadership within Family Firms
2011	Family Business Identity and Information Exploration	Joshi, Mahendra - Grand Valley State University	Small business owners’ external information-seeking behaviors: The role of perceived uncertainty and organizational identity complexity	Journal of Small Business Strategy January 2018	This study examines how small business owners' perceived uncertainty about their environment interacts with the complexity of their organization's identity to explain their information seeking from external sources. We hypothesize that perceived uncertainty is positively related to external information seeking, and, organizational complexity, in the form of different organizational identities, complicates this relationship and reduces the information seeking in certain conditions while increases in others. The results extend evidence to prior established relationships between perceived uncertainty and information seeking and also suggest that organizational complexity plays an equally important role as a critical moderator. Additionally, we propose a different classification scheme for the external sources and use this to test our hypotheses. Family Business Identity and Information Exploration
2011	Family Offices and the Future	Welsh, Dianne - University of North Carolina Rosplock, Kirby - Gen Spring Family Offices Segurado Luis, Juan - Spain	Not Yet Published
2011	Firm Ownership & Productivity	Francesco Barbera, PhD - The University of Adelaide Ken Moores	Firm Ownership and Productivity: A Study of Family and Non-Family SMEs	Small Business Economics October 2011	Motivated by a lack of consensus in the current literature, the objective of this paper is to reveal whether family firms are more or less productive than non-family firms. As a first step, this paper links family business research to the theoretical notion that family involvement has an effect on the factors of production from a productivity standpoint. Second, by using a Cobb–Douglas framework, we provide empirical evidence that family labour and capital indeed yield diverse output contributions compared with their non-family counterparts. In particular, family labour output contributions are significantly higher, and family capital output contributions significantly lower. Interestingly, differences in total factor productivity between family and non-family firms disappear when we allow for heterogeneous output contributions of family production inputs. These findings imply that the assumption of homogeneous labour and capital between family and non-family firms is inappropriate when estimating the production function. Firm Ownership & Productivity
2010	Toward a Theory of Accountability in Family Businesses	Pieper, Torsten M. - Kennesaw State University Guidice, Rebecca - University of Nevada Mero, Neil - Kennesaw State University	Perceptions of accountability in family business: Using accountability theory to understand differences between family and nonfamily executives	Journal of Family Business Strategy December 2013	Family business success rests on implementing a governance system that recognizes a complex nexus of social relationships. While scholars have used existing frameworks such as agency theory to explore the effect of financial incentives on agent behavior and performance, they have not integrated perspectives from psychology and sociology in a way that fully addresses the challenges of effective family business governance. Our research advances current knowledge of governance in family business by examining the implications of accountability theory to explore differences in the perceptions of accountability between family and nonfamily executives as a result of family firm monitoring. We examine the elements and linkages that form the basis of accountability in the context of firm characteristics uniquely common to family business and that are influential in the development of perceptions between executives of contrasting family status. Potential contingencies to the family status–accountability relationship is also considered, as are the implications of effective monitoring for family firm performance. Toward a Theory of Accountability in Family Businesses
2010	Human Capital Impacts on Innovation in Entrepreneurial Family Firms	Gottschall, Richard - Concordia University Dawson, Alexandra - Concordia University Sharma, Pramodita - Concordia University	Family human capital and the championing of innovation in small firms	Journal of Small Business Strategy November 2020	This study of 94 small family firms focuses on complex interactions between individual family members and firm-level activities and outcomes. We develop and test a model of relationships between family championing of innovation, family human capital characteristics, and the firms’ adoption of innovation. Family members championed many more adoptions of innovation than non-family members did, demonstrating strong family influence in smaller firms. An important point is that this strong family influence would appear insignificant without accounting for the significant moderating influence of variance in family human capital levels. This study contributes to our understanding of family influence’s heterogeneous nature by modeling interaction between mediating family behaviors and moderating family characteristics Human Capital Impacts on Innovation in Entrepreneurial Family Firms
2009	Does Work-Family Integration or Segmentation Work Better: Evidence from Family Businesses	Perry, John - Wichita State University	Not Yet Published
2008	Family Ties: For Love or Money?	Pieper, Torsten M. - Kennesaw State University Gillette, Ann B. - Kennesaw State University Ackert, Lucy F. - Kennesaw State University	Not Yet Published
2008	Stakeholder Management, Ethical Behavior, and Performance of Family Businesses: A Systems View	Goel, Sanjay - University of Minnesota	Not Yet Published
2007	The Impact of Family Influence Level and Family Influence Type on the Performance of Family Businesses in Germany and France	Jaskiewicz, Peter - University of Alberta – Canada	Not Yet Published
2007	Stakeholder Salience in the Family Firm	Chrisman, James J. - Mississippi State University Ring, John Kirk - Mississippi State University	Stakeholder Salience In The Family Firm	ProQuest Dissertations and Theses May 2009	Family firms are replete with problems concerning family and business issues but they remain the most dominant form of business worldwide. Decisions about strategy, structure, and goals of the firm play an integral part in the distinction of family firms from non-family firms (Chrisman, Chua & Sharma, 2005) and these decisions are further complicated in the family firm by the interaction of the family and business systems (Stafford, Duncan, Danes & Winter, 1999). Sharma (2000) and Chrisman and colleagues (2005) call for research of this interaction through the utilization of stakeholder theory because family firms involve a specific array of stakeholders with different stakes and different levels of salience. This dissertation further investigates the interaction of the family and the business in a new and interesting way. This will be the first attempt to investigate the way stakeholders and their salience affects the goals and performance of family firms. The dissertation developed below focuses on the differences that exist among the salience of stakeholders in the family firm. I first develop theory-based hypotheses on a variety of relationships within the family and family firm that will contribute to a better understanding of the behavior of family firms. Second, I describe the research methodology and sample design to be utilized to test the developed hypotheses. I expect my results to not only empirically validate my research questions but to also provide practical and useful information for future research in this area. The aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge by empirically testing a framework for stakeholder salience in the family firm as well as assessing how the salience of particular groups affect the performance of family firms. Stakeholder Salience in the Family Firm
2006	Toward a Theory of Intergenerational Creativity with Help from the Marsalis Family	Litz, Reg A. - University of Manitoba	Not Yet Published
2006	Toward a Stewardship Theory of Family Firms	Kellermanns, Franz W. - Mississippi State University Eddleston, Kimberly A. - Northeastern University	Exploring the Entrepreneurial Behavior of Family Firms: Does the Stewardship Perspective Explain Differences?	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice March 2012	Drawing from stewardship theory, we investigated corporate entrepreneurship in family firms. We argued that stewardship culture determinants––comprehensive strategic decision making, participative governance, long–term orientation, and human capital––differentiate the most entrepreneurial family firms. Based on a study of 179 family firms, we showed that comprehensive strategic decision making and long–term orientation contribute to corporate entrepreneurship. Additionally, family–to–firm unity enhanced the positive effects participative governance and long–term orientation have on corporate entrepreneurship. While we found that family–to–firm unity can compensate for low human capital, unexpectedly, we also found that family–to–firm unity can dampen the positive relationship between human capital and corporate entrepreneurship. Toward a Stewardship Theory of Family Firms
2005	Family Ownership and Worker Compensation	Cronqvist, Henrik - Claremont McKenna College Nilsson, Mattias - Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More?	The Journal of Finance February 2009	Analyzing a panel that matches public firms with worker-level data, we find that managerial entrenchment affects workers' pay. CEOs with more control pay their workers more, but financial incentives through cash flow rights ownership mitigate such behavior. Entrenched CEOs pay more to employees closer to them in the corporate hierarchy, geographically closer to the headquarters, and associated with conflict-inclined unions. The evidence is consistent with entrenched CEOs paying more to enjoy private benefits such as lower effort wage bargaining and improved social relations with employees. Our results show that managerial ownership and corporate governance can play an important role for employee compensation. Family Ownership and Worker Compensation
2005	The Impact of Organizational Culture onto the Board Size of Family Businesses	Klein, Sabine B. - WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management	Not Yet Published
2004	Calling of the Farm: Case Studies of Successors and their Children in New Zealand	Frishkoff, Patricia and Paul - Leadership in Family Enterprise	Not Yet Published
2004	The Impact of Spousal Support and Involvement on Family Business Start-Ups	Danes, Sharon M. - University of Minnesota	Spousal Support and Work—Family Balance in Launching a Family Business	Journal of Family Issues August 1, 2009	This study examines whether emotional spousal support contributes to business owners' perceived work—family balance while launching a family business. Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory of stress is applied to 109 family business owners and their spouses. Results from structural equation models support several hypotheses. First, reports of spousal support given are strongly related to reports of support received, suggesting genuine interpersonal transactions of support. Second, the effects of spousal support are confounded until a satisfaction-with-business-communication variable is introduced, revealing competing direct and indirect effects on work—family balance. Finally, business owner work hours have an additive negative effect on work—family balance, suggesting multiple means for maintaining work—family balance. The Impact of Spousal Support and Involvement on Family Business Start-Ups
2003	Governance in Family Business: Managing Identities and Boundaries	Barton, Sid- University of Cincinnati Kreiner, Glen - Pennsylvania State University Sundaramurthy, Chamu - San Diego State University	Governing by Managing Identity Boundaries: The Case of Family Businesses	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice May 1, 2008	In this paper we illustrate how boundary theory can be a useful perspective to understand the dynamics of family businesses. We integrate insights from the family business literature with the work–family and identity boundary literatures to describe degrees of integration between the family and business identities in family firms and outline contingencies that influence this integration. We also develop the notion of “differential permeability” as a state of being both integrated and segmented on various aspects of identity and articulate costs and benefits to this state, as well as to high integration and high segmentation. Finally, we invoke the research on “boundary work” as a means of managing family business boundaries and conclude by outlining additional avenues of research that stem from using such a boundary theory lens. Governance in Family Business: Managing Identities and Boundaries
2002	Investigation of Differences in Management of Founding Family Controlled Firms between Founders and their Descendants Based Upon Performance, Risk, and Value	Bhaqwat, Yatin - Grand Valley State University	Not Yet Published

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