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Research Scholar's Abstracts 2006 - Jaideep Motwan

Benchmarking Family Business Research with Other Disciplines: Implications from a Statistical Meta Analysis of Papers Published in Flagship Journals
Jaideep Motwan
2006

At various stages of a discipline's development there is a need for some introspection, based on Meta research, to appraise the discipline's status in as objective and all encompassing way as possible. This paper, though not original in the methodologies used, is a Meta research piece which will provide a rigorous and structured content analysis of life-cycle family business literature.

The main objective of this study is to investigate the family business field over the entire lifespan to obtain a succinct, quantitative, yet operationally meaningful summary and to benchmark the results of this study with other relevant disciplines and/or sub-disciplines. This study seeks to conduct a Meta review of family business research published in flagship business journals and to shed further and more precise light on the direction that the field is taking, and the role its journal should play in pursuing or modifying this direction.