Riding the waves of family firm internationalization: A systematic literature review, integrative framework, and research agenda

Autor(en)

Francesco Debellis, Emanuela Rondi, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Alfredo De Massis

Abstrakt

Despite the proliferation in research efforts, family firm (FF) internationalization scholarship suffers from fragmentation, theoretical limitations, and empirical indeterminacy, leaving important facets unexplored. This article's purpose is to unpack how this body of research has evolved over time and interfaces international business (IB) theory. We conduct a systematic literature review of relevant theoretical and empirical studies covering the last 30 years of research and comprising 134 articles. Our study contributes to this corpus of knowledge by identifying and discussing four evolutionary waves of FF internationalization research. We further advance an integrative framework that offers a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-the-art as well as promising avenues for future research at the intersection of IB and FFs.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Marketing und International Business

Externe Organisation(en)

Freie Universität Bozen, Lancaster University, Zhejiang University (ZJU)

Journal

Journal of World Business

Band

56

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

1090-9516

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101144

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

502016 KMU-Forschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Marketing, Business and International Management, Finance

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/riding-the-waves-of-family-firm-internationalization-a-systematic-literature-review-integrative-framework-and-research-agenda(84db4df2-09d3-43ad-af06-a3e373df49f0).html