A bibliometric review of the socioemotional wealth and family business literature
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Author:
Ana Felicitas Gargallo-Castel, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Abstract:
Family firms represent two-thirds of all businesses across the world. The overlapping of family and business aspects constitutes a unique characteristic that explains the idiosyncrasy of family firms. Family’s affective needs are non-financial aspects that influence the making decision process in family firms. Socioemotional Wealth encompasses emotional endowments accumulated in the business by the family. This study focuses on this topic over the last decades. All papers published in family business included in the WoS Core Collection (1900-April 2020) were searched. We examine in more detail the 638 papers on family business and socioemotional wealth (FB&SEW) published from the first article in 2007 until the beginning of April 2020. The aim is to identify the most significant literature in FB&SEW by developing a bibliometric analysis. A quantitative and qualitative perspective has been adopted, offering information on both the percentage of the studies published in the field of family business research and their influence according to the citations they receive. Web of Science Core Collection database has been used to collect data. Our results discovered the significant contributions of the FB&SEW topic in terms of impact, journals, authors, universities and countries. Finally, the studies “highly cited in the field” are analysed.
Contact:
Ana Felicitas Gargallo-Castel, gargallo@unizar.es