Family Firms as Context for Organizational Behavior Processes
细分领域
Development and validation of measurement instruments (including assessment of measurement invariance) that allow a more generic assessment of contextual effects often put forward in family firm research (e.g., socioemotional wealth) to help theorize and understand similarities and differences in OB processes between family and non-family firms, and within family firms
Explicit tests of theories of context (e.g., trait activation theory; situation strength theory) to explain differences in relationships between personality traits and employee outcomes between family and non-family firms and within different types of family firms (e.g., enhanced understanding of family firm context as a driver for personality activation and impact on workplace performance and behaviors)
Development and validation of personality measurement instruments specific to the context of family for use in family firms, and meaningful contextual comparisons across family firms (including assessment of measurement invariance)
Enhanced theoretical understanding of how bifurcation bias based on family firm context as a potential motivational force for driving employee attitudes and behaviors
Multilevel research to better understand how the family firm context affects the extent to which leadership styles may (or may not) trickle down from family executives to family and non-family managers and in turn affect non-family employee outcomes in different types of family firms
An exploration of how critical events within the family firm context and family/nonfamily member dynamics shape employee and non-family manager perceptions and evaluations of their employment relationship with the family firm
