Research and Publications

A collection of selected publications on family firms by the Mays Business School Department of Management faculty:

• Arregle, J-L., Hitt, M.A., Sirmon, D.G., & Very, P. 2007. The development of organizational social capital: Attributes of family firms. Journal of Management Studies, 44(1): 73-95.
• Berrone, P., Cruz, C., Gomez-Mejia, L. R. & Larraza-Kintana, M. (2010). Socioemotional wealth and corporate response to institutional pressures: Do family controlled firms pollute less? Administrative Science Quarterly, 54 (2)
• Chirico, F., Ireland, R.D., Sirmon, D.G. Franchising and the family firm: Creating unique sources of advantage. 1st revision requested by Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice
• Cruz, C.,  Gómez-Mejia, L.R. & Becerra, M. (2010). Perceptions of benevolence and the design of agency contracts: CEO-TMT relations in family firms. Academy of Management Journal, 53 (1).
• Gómez-Mejia, L.R., Firfiray, S. & Cruz, C. (forthcoming). Socioemotional   wealth and the practice of human resource management in family controlled firms. In: Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Vol 30. Emerald Publishing Company.
• Gómez-Mejia, L.R., Gutierrez, I., & Nunez-Nickel, M. (2001). The role of family ties in agency contracts. Academy of Management Journal,44(1), 1-15.
• Gómez-Mejia, L.R., Larraza, M., & Makri, M. (2003). The determinants of executive compensation in family controlled firms. Academy of Management Journal, 46, 226-238.
• Gómez-Mejia, L.R., Makri, M., & Larraza, M. (2010). Diversification decisions in family firms: An application of the behavioral agency model. Journal of Management Studies, 47 (2), 223-252. 
• Gómez-Mejia,L.R., Haynes, K., Jacobson,K.,  Nunez-Nickel, M. & Moyano, J.  (2007). Socioemotional wealth and business risks in family controlled firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(1), 106-138.
• Hitt, M. 2010 (in press). The Yin and Yang of Kinship and Business: Complementary or Contradictory Forces,” with Alex Stewart, in Alex Stewart, Jerry Katz and Tom Lumpkin  (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth, Volume 12, (Boston: Emerald Group Publishing, 2010), in press.
• Hitt, M. 2010 (in press).Zahra, S.,  Gómez-Mejia, L.R., DeCastro, J., & Cruz, C. (in press). Family business governance: What we know and what we have yet to learn. Annals of the Academy of Management, The Academy of Management.
• Hitt, M. 2010. Family Ties in Entrepreneurs' Social Networks and New Venture Success: Handle with Care, with J.-L. Arregle, B. Batjargal, Justin Webb and T.L. Miller. Paper resented at the Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, August, 2010.
• Jones, C., Makri, M., & , Gómez-Mejia, L.R. (2008, November). Affiliate directors and perceived risk bearing in publicly traded, family controlled firms: The case of diversification. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1042-2587.
• Lester, R.H., & Cannella, A.A. Jr., 2006. Interorganizational familiness: How family firms use interlocking directorates to build community-level social capital. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice- Nov, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p755-775.
• Miller, D., Le Breton, I., Lester, R.H. 2010 (in press). Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behavior. Journal of Management Studies.
• Miller, D., Le Breton, I., Lester, R.H. 2010 (in press). Stewardship or Agency? A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses. Organization Science.
• Miller, D., Le Breton, I., Lester, R.H. Cannella, A.A. Jr., 2007. Are Family Firms Really Superior Performers? Journal of Corporate Finance, Dec., Vol. 13 Issue 5, p. 829-858.
• Miller, D., Le Breton, I., Lester, R.H., 2010. Family Ownership and Acquisition Behavior in Publicly-Traded Companies. Strategic Management Journal Vol. 31: 201-233.
• Sirmon, D.G., & Hitt, M.A. 2003. Managing resources: Linking unique resources, management and wealth creation in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 27(4): 339-358.
• Sirmon, D.G., Arregle, J-L., Hitt, M.A., & Webb, J.W. 2008. The role of family influence in firms’ strategic response to competitive threat. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 32(6): 979-998.
• Sorenson RL, Bierman, L. 2009. Family Capital, Family Business and Free Enterprise. Family Business Review. 22: 193-195.
• Webb, J.W., Ketchen, D.A., Jr., & Ireland, R.D. 2010 (in press). Strategic entrepreneurship within family-controlled firms: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Family Business Strategy.