First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Family Firms: A Comparison

By Matthew C. Sonfield, Robert Lussier. 2004

322 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Accounting

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. J. Kotlar
3. James J. Chrisman
4. Jess H. Chua
5. G. Tyge Payne
6. Heather R. Haberman
7. John A. Martin
8. Michael S. McLeod

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. J. Kotlar
3. James J. Chrisman
4. Jess H. Chua
5. Heather R. Haberman
6. S. Danes
7. John A. Martin
8. Michael S. McLeod

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Alfredo De Massis
2. J. Kotlar
3. James J. Chrisman
4. Jess H. Chua
5. G. Tyge Payne
6. Heather R. Haberman
7. S. Danes
8. John A. Martin

Citations in the corpus

• Father-Daughter and Father-Son Family Business Management Transfer Comparison: Family FIRO Model Application (2007, background): “As a result, Family B did much less transfer planning and business training of the junior generation than did Family A (Sonfield & Lussier, 2004).”
• A Study of the Relationships Between Generation, Market Orientation, and Innovation in Family Firms (2011, background): “Both Tokarczyk et al. (2007) and Zachary et al.”
• Empirics in Family Business Research (2016, methodology): “…the interactions and involvement among family members, such as conflict and disagreement, that occur in the course of running a family business (Sonfield & Lussier, 2004), Of these, nearly half were published in the last 9-year period of our sampling timeframe (2006-2014), which demonstrates a…”
• The Effects of Family Firm Specific Sources of Tmt Diversity: The Moderating Role of Information Exchange Frequency (2010, unknown): “Prior studies have examined differences between first-, second-, and later-generation firms (i.e. Aronoff, 1998; Dyer, 1988; Gersick et al., 1997; McConaughy and Phillips, 1999; Sonfield and Lussier, 2004).”
• Planning for Growth: Life Stage Differences in Family Firms (2013, unknown): “…to strategic planning and growth, a generational perspective highlights the differences among first-, second-, and third-and-beyond-generation family firms (e.g., Bammens, Voordeckers, & Van Gils, 2008; Cruz & Nordqvist, 2012; Gersick et al., 1997; Lubatkin et al., 2005; Sonfield & Lussier, 2004).”
• Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups (2014, unknown): “In the family business literature, there is no accepteddefinition ofwhat constitutes a “family business” (Chua et al., 1999; Sonfield and Lussier, 2004).”
• Ability and Willingness as Sufficiency Conditions for Family‐Oriented Particularistic Behavior: Implications for Theory and Empirical Studies (2014, background): “2007; Romano, Tanewski, and Smyrnios 2001; Schulze, Lubatkin, and Dino 2003b); whether the CEO has a family successor in mind (Sharma, Chrisman, and Chua 2003; Westhead, Cowling, and Howorth 2001); desire to go public (Sonfield and Lussier 2004); the family’s commitment to the business (Chrisman et ”