Affiliate Directors and Perceived Risk Bearing in Publicly Traded, Family–Controlled Firms: The Case of Diversification

By Carla D. Jones, Marianna Makri, Luis R. Gómez-Mejía. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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An Integrated Agency-Resource Dependence View of the Influence of Directors' Human and Relational Capital on Firms' R&D Spending (2011, methodology): “We controlled for affiliate directors in all models ( Jones et al., 2008).”
Entrepreneurial Risk Taking of Private Family Firms (2013, result): “The negative effect of firm size was in line with previous findings (e.g., Gómez-Mejía et al., 2007; Jones et al., 2008) and confirmed the idea that larger firms are more resistant to entrepreneurial risk taking.”
Resource Dependence Theory: A Review (2009, background): “Jones, Makri, and Gomez-Mejia (2008) observe that family firms pursuing diversification similarly benefit from specific types of directors over others.”
Why is Family Firms’ Internationalization Unique? A Meta–Analysis (2017, background): “…ownership and top decision making (i.e., top management or board) presence that allow them to exert significant influence in the firm’s strategic decisions and operations (e.g., Arregle, Naldi, Nordqvist, & Hitt, 2012; G omez-Mej ıa et al., 2010; Jones, Makri, & G omez-Mej ıa, 2008; Zahra, 2003).”
Internationalization of Family–Controlled Firms: A Study of the Effects of External Involvement in Governance (2012, background): “As such, they are also more likely to initiate and drive strategic change (Dalton & Kesner, 1985), including diversifying outside the national borders (Jones et al., 2008).”
More Than Meets the Eye: A Review and Future Directions for the Social Psychology of Socioemotional Wealth (2018, background): “…that although it took over 5 years (2007-2011) for family firm scholars to prominently adopt SEW in their theorizing (see Berrone et al., 2010; Gómez-Mejía et al., 2011; Gómez-Mejía, Makri, & Kintana, 2010; Jones et al., 2008; Stockmans et al., 2010, for notable exceptions), 106 papers (25.18”
Value Is in the Eye of the Owner (2012, background): “Our considerations about the creation of SEW reaches well beyond existing research that has chiefly considered family firm owners as homogeneous in their SEW perceptions (Berrone et al., 2010; Gomez-Mejia et al., 2007; Gomez-Mejia et al., 2010; Jones et al., 2008; Miller et al., 2010).”
Narcissism in organizational contexts (2010, background): “Similarly, Judge et al. (2006) found that narcissism is positively related to self ratings of leadership and OCB.”