Stewardship or Agency? A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses

By Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Danny Miller, Richard H. Lester. Organ. Sci., 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Are Family Firms Good Employers (2017, methodology): “In addition, and contrary to Le Breton-Miller et al. (2011), we find that financial stewardship does not change while organizational stewardship worsens as family firms age, and that high levels of family involvement or identification with the firm do little to offset these outcomes.”
Firm Philanthropy in Small- and Medium-Sized Family Firms (2014, unknown): “Some may be inactive owners while others may also be active managers or employees in the business (Gersick, Davis, McCollom Hampton, & Lansberg, 1997; Le Breton-Miller et al., 2011).”
Ability and Willingness as Sufficiency Conditions for Family‐Oriented Particularistic Behavior: Implications for Theory and Empirical Studies (2014, background): “…in family firms can be more precisely predicted when accounting for the susceptibility of executives to family influence (i.e., ability) (Le Breton-Miller, Miller, and Lester 2011); and variations of the perceived acceptable selling price by family CEOs can be explained by their different…”
Family Business Growth Around the World (2020, background): “In addition, in view of the relative stability and authority of family governance, family firms can form enduring relationships with other family businesses to promote joint commercial interests (Le Breton- Miller et al., 2011; Miller & Breton- Miller, 2005; Salvato & Melin, 2008).”
Innovation and Family Ownership: Empirical Evidence from India (2014, background): “In addition, Le Breton-Miller, Miller, and Lester (2011) observe contradictory evidence of investment for innovation by family firms.”