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The Ability and Willingness Paradox in Family Firm Innovation by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., De Massis, Alfredo, Frattini, Federico, Wright, Mike

“…We present a framework of how family involvement influences innovation management based on ability (discretion to act) and willingness (disposition to act),…”
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Family Control and Family Firm Valuation by Family CEOs: The Importance of Intentions for Transgenerational Control by Zellweger, Thomas M., Kellermanns, Franz W., Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H.

“…Family firms are thought to pursue nonfinancial goals that provide socioemotional wealth, but socioemotional wealth is feasible only with family control of the…”
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Sources of Heterogeneity in Family Firms: An Introduction by Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J., Steier, Lloyd P., Rau, Sabine B.

“…Family business researchers have devoted substantial attention to comparing family firms with nonfamily firms. Many of these comparisons rely on dichotomous…”
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Family Enterprise and Context by Wright, Mike, Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Steier, Lloyd P.

“…There has been increasing attention to the heterogeneity of family businesses but recognition of the heterogeneity of the contexts in which family firms…”
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Factors Preventing Intra-Family Succession by De Massis, Alfredo, Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J.

“…Although research on management succession is a dominant topic in the family business literature, little systematic attention has been given to the factors…”
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An Agency Theoretic Analysis of the Professionalized Family Firm by Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J., Bergiel, Erich B.

“…The professionalized firm must evaluate the performance of managers and provide incentives that will motivate them to achieve the firm's goals. Using the…”
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Trends and Directions in the Development of a Strategic Management Theory of the Family Firm by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Sharma, Pramodita

“…This article provides a review of important trends in the strategic management approach to studying family firms: convergence in definitions, accumulating…”
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Comparing the Agency Costs of Family and Non-Family Firms: Conceptual Issues and Exploratory Evidence by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Litz, Reginald A.

“…Family involvement in a business has the potential to both increase and decrease financial performance due to agency costs. In this article we discuss the…”
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Succession Planning as Planned Behavior: Some Empirical Results by Sharma, Pramodita, Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H.

“…This paper uses the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize the influence of the incumbent's desire to keep the business in the family, the family's…”
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Family Involvement, Family Influence, and Family-Centered Non-Economic Goals in Small Firms by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Pearson, Allison W., Barnett, Tim

“…Using behavioral and stakeholder theories, we suggest that family firms may have family–centered non–economic goals and that these goals could influence firm…”
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A Closer Look at Socioemotional Wealth: Its Flows, Stocks, and Prospects for Moving Forward by Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J., De Massis, Alfredo

“…We supplement the recent work by Miller and Le Breton–Miller by evaluating more closely two related theoretical aspects of the socioemotional wealth concept:…”
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Reflections on family firm goals and the assessment of performance by Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J., De Massis, Alfredo, Wang, Hao

“…Assessments of family firm effectiveness depend critically on how goals and performance outputs are measured. Similarly, assessments of family firm efficiency…”
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Management processes and strategy execution in family firms: from "what" to "how" by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., De Massis, Alfredo, Minola, Tommaso, Vismara, Silvio

“…The distinctiveness of family firms' goals, structures, resources, strategies, and performance has been studied in terms of what family firms do or are able to…”
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Social Structures, Social Relationships, and Family Firms by Zellweger, Thomas M., Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Steier, Lloyd P.

“…In this introduction, we observe that the study of social structures and social relationships constitutes a common theme among the articles and commentaries…”
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The Influence of Family Goals, Governance, and Resources on Firm Outcomes by Chrisman, James J., Sharma, Pramodita, Steier, Lloyd P., Chua, Jess H.

“…We briefly reflect on the theoretical contributions of the ongoing series of special issues on theories of family enterprise and discuss the contributions of…”
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Second-Order Gender Effects: The Case of U.S. Small Business Borrowing Cost by Wu, Zhenyu, Chua, Jess H.

“…Gender–based differential treatment of business borrowers has been illegal for decades now. Therefore, any remaining gender effect is likely to be more subtle…”
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Governance Mechanisms and Family Firms by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Miller, Danny, Steier, Lloyd P.

“…Governance, along with goals and resources, is a key determinant of the distinctiveness and heterogeneity of family firms. Our introduction discusses formal…”
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Family Firm Behavior From a Psychological Perspective by Sharma, Pramodita, Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Steier, Lloyd P.

“…The heterogeneity of family firms and their simultaneous pursuit of financial and nonfinancial goals is well established in the literature. However, causal…”
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Family involvement and new venture debt financing by Chua, Jess H., Chrisman, James J., Kellermanns, Franz, Wu, Zhenyu

“…New ventures often require debt financing but face difficulties convincing lenders of their creditworthiness because of agency problems. Researchers have shown…”
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Resilience of Family Firms: An Introduction by Chrisman, James J., Chua, Jess H., Steier, Lloyd P.

“…Family firms have long been a prominent feature of the organizational landscape and researchers have found some variations of this organizational form to be…”
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