Ability and Willingness as Sufficiency Conditions for Family‐Oriented Particularistic Behavior: Implications for Theory and Empirical Studies

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Incumbents’ Attitude Toward Intrafamily Succession (2016, background): “It is consistent with the argument by De Massis et al. (2014) that family involvement in ownership, management, and governance is a necessary but insufficient condition for a firm to exhibit family-oriented particularistic behavior.”
Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research (2018, background): “For instance, how do the willingness and ability of family owners (De Massis et al. 2014b) change over time?”
Family firms in the global economy: Toward a deeper understanding of internationalization determinants, processes, and outcomes (2018, methodology): “…in a distinctive way, meaning that such involvement is insufficient to directly determine distinctive family firm processes unless taking into account the behavioral propensities of the involved family, i.e., willingness and ability (De Massis et al., 2014; De Massis, Di Minin, and Frattini, 2015).”