Stewardship theory is a popular alternative to agency theory for studying family firm
governance. Despite its contributions to management and family business studies …

This new edition of the successful textbook Organization Theories discusses various
approaches to theory formation in organization research, offers a critical presentation of the …

Prior research on factors influencing the financial performance of tourism and hospitality
family firms concentrated mainly on family-level traits, thus limiting our comprehension of the …

Based on stewardship theory and social role theory, we examine the bounded nature of
nonfamily employees' individual stewardship behaviors (ie, organizational citizenship …

These articles also serve as the foundation for this editorial, which seeks to (1) introduce this
issue of FBR,(2) stimulate discussions regarding our domain, and (3) highlight some ways to …

Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we theorize that spiritual leadership serves
as both a resource to enhance employees' organizational commitment and a passageway to …

We use transaction cost economics to explain the individual-level entrepreneurial behavior
of family and nonfamily managers in family firms. We argue that nonfamily managers exhibit …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR)
activities in Canadian family firms. Design/methodology/approach This paper is an empirical …

We extend relational demography theory by introducing kinship as a new demographic
characteristic of categorization. We theorize that family firm employees' kinship similarity …

Extending past research, this paper proposes that the quadratic inverse-U relationship
between family ownership and the performance of entrepreneurial firms when moderated by …