Diversification Decisions in Family-Controlled Firms

By Luis R. Gómez-Mejía, Marianna Makri, Martín Larraza Kintana. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Financial Wealth, Socioemotional Wealth, and IPO Underpricing in Family Firms: A Two-stage Gamble Model (2017, methodology): “Similarly, future research could examine how the initial SEW losses that family firms experience as they internationalize (Gómez-Mejía et al., 2010), or acquire other businesses (Gómez-Mejía et al.”
Sustaining the Family Business With Minimal Financial Rewards (2015, background): “As suggested by Gómez-Mejia et al. (2007, 2010), we found that owners of these small, privately held businesses were clearly driven to protect their socioeconomic wealth (SEW).”
Family firm internationalization: heritage assets and the impact of bifurcation bias (2018, neutral): “For example, several scholars (e.g., Fernandes and Nieto, 2006; Graves and Thomas, 2006; Gomez-Mejia et al. , 2010) have shown that the family firms in their samples were less internationalized than non-family ones.”
International Opportunity Recognition among Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms* (2011, neutral): “It has been argued that this is due to the strong internal ties of family firms, based on trustful relationships between family members (Gomez-Mejia, Makri, and Kintana 2010; Salvato and Melin 2008).”
Are Family Firms Really More Socially Responsible? (2014, methodology): “Based on previous studies (GomezMejia et al., 2003), we classified the company as a family firm if two criteria were met: a) an individual or a family group owned at least 20% of the shares during the whole period 20012010. In line with Villalonga & Amit (2006), we took members with the highest perc”
A Socioemotional Wealth Perspective on how Collaboration Intensity, Trust, and International Market Knowledge affect Family Firms' Multinationality (2016, background): “…a different pattern of internationalization because of heightened knowledge needs to protect family control, influence, perpetuation of the family identity, and prevent access to the family firms’ assets by external parties (i.e., protect its SEW) (Berrone et al., 2010; Gómez-Mejía et al., 2010).”
Value Is in the Eye of the Owner (2012, methodology): “Within the family firm context, it seems interesting to examine whether the AIM variables introduced in Table 1 are able to elucidate family firm behavior that has been attributed to SEW considerations (up to this date measured mainly through family ownership), such as the reluctance of family firms”
In the Horns of the Dilemma: Socioemotional Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Acquisitions in Family Firms (2018, methodology): “…business and SEW studies (Allen & Sharon, 1982; Anderson & Reeb, 2003; Berrone, Cruz, Gomez-Mejia, & Larraza-Kintana, 2010; Chrisman & Patel, 2012; Gomez-Mejia et al., 2010; Villalonga & Amit, 2006), we define family control as a family that owns a minimum of 5% of firm shares with at least one…”
Resource-Based Theory and Corporate Diversification (2011, background): “Family firms may pursue a diversification strategy that seeks to maintain family members’ socioemotional wealth (Gomez-Mejia et al., 2010).”