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Purpose
The concept of resilience has garnered significant attention during recent global crises. Family businesses are often highlighted for their inherent resilience, attributed to their distinctive characteristics, orientation, goals and familial influence. Nonetheless, a coherent body of research on strategies for family business resilience uncovering managerial implications remains elusive.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors performed a systematic literature review followed by a synthesis and inductive analysis of 57 selected articles to identify strategies that strengthen family business resilience.
Findings
The findings reveal strategic approaches shaped by a strong commitment to family-centric culture, identity and values and extensive internal and external relationships. These strategies, which are significantly influenced by family businesses’ distinctive traits, are critical in enhancing a family business’s adaptability and crisis response. Nonfinancial goals, a long-term orientation and risk-aware financial standing further enhance resilience by collectively enabling businesses to navigate external adversities resiliently and secure their enduring viability.
Originality/value
The paper concludes with a cohesive and dynamic framework that integrates the various strategic approaches into a novel conceptualization and points towards future research directions.
Purpose
This systematic literature review (SLR) structures and analyzes the research on female self-initiated expatriates (FSIEs), an under-explored subgroup within expatriation studies. The study identifies key themes and developments and outlines a future research agenda.
Design/methodology/approach
An SLR of 34 empirical studies was conducted, employing an inductive approach for an in-depth analysis of the articles, utilizing the Gioia methodology to code, review and organize the data systematically.
Findings
FSIEs choose expatriation to overcome career stagnation and to break glass ceilings in their home countries. They face specific challenges, including gender discrimination and exclusion. Yet, they exhibit powerful coping mechanisms and utilize social, often female, support networks. FSIEs tend to repatriate at higher rates than men, driven by economic and family-related reasons.
Originality/value
This SLR offers insights into FSIEs’ motivations, adjustment and careers, while calling for future research, inter alia, focusing on long-term career impacts and intersectional approaches to better capture the diverse motivations and experiences of FSIEs. Similarly, we encourage future research to conduct comparative studies between FSIEs, male SIEs and female assigned expatriates, while also utilizing other promising methodological designs, such as diary or multi-level studies.
Real estate (RE) is grappling with digital transformation. Although property technology (PropTech) start-ups are generating process innovations that offer novel solutions to current RE problems, they are hampered by the slowness of RE's technology acceptance. Classical technology acceptance theory can explain the adoption of specific technologies but the diversity of PropTech requires an additional perspective or extension to current theory. To identify the barriers PropTech start-ups face in RE, we interviewed 15 founders about the challenges and experiences of working with customers. We identified three aggregate dimensions: customer barriers, provider barriers, and external ecosystem barriers. Our findings contribute to technology acceptance theory by extending Davis's (1989) TAM with additional barriers that are relevant to the adoption of PropTech. Our extended model depicts barriers as elements that influence technology acceptance. The paper concludes by identifying further research areas.
Understanding finfluencers
(2025)
Financial influencers, or ‘finfluencers’, are emerging players in the financial community who share financial content on social media, particularly about personal finance and investing. Continuously growing their audience through engaging infotainment, finfluencers’ prominence is fuelled by demand for more accessible financial education and low-cost financial advice. This study sheds light on finfluencers’ social, economic and cultural implications, offering academics and practitioners new insights into how finfluencers influence retail investor engagement, including their motivations, business models and collaborations. The online survey responses of a representative sample of German-speaking finfluencers reveal that, despite apparent contradictions in their financial motives, finfluencers see themselves as advocates of financial education. While serving for financial services marketing, finfluencers also can be integrated into strategic partnerships, including retail investor relations and financial literacy initiatives. Despite controversies, we conceptualize finfluencers as agents of change promoting financial literacy, empowerment, and inclusion while also normalising financial conversations in everyday life.
Die schönsten Uhren der Welt
(2024)
Vieles ist bekannt über die Bedeutung des Purpose für Organisationen – weniges darüber, wie er entsteht. Unsere Studie beim Uhrenhersteller A. Lange & Söhne veranschaulicht, wie individuell das Purpose-Making der Organisationsmitglieder ist und welche Einflussgrößen dabei eine Rolle spielen. Die Führung sollte die Vielfalt als Herausforderung und Chance begreifen.
Innovating beyond boundaries
(2025)
This article analyses how firms enhance their dynamic capabilities through open innovation activities. While previous research has acknowledged the potential of integrating dynamic capabilities and open innovation, existing studies are fragmented in that they neither build upon one another nor offer a comprehensive framework. Instead, they often focus on isolated aspects of dynamic capabilities, resulting in disparate, incoherent insights. This fragmentation hinders the development of actionable insights for organizations aiming to systematically enhance their innovation processes through open innovation. To address this issue, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify key dimensions that link open innovation activities to the sensing, seizing and transforming phases-the core components of dynamic capabilities. The resulting framework offers an integrative perspective that goes beyond fragmented research findings and provides a structured approach to operationalizing open innovation. The framework transitions open innovation from an abstract concept to a practical tool that can be systematically embedded into firms' innovation processes. Additionally, by situating dynamic capabilities within the context of innovation management, the framework expands their theoretical and practical utility. This study provides actionable insights for practitioners and establishes a consolidated foundation for future research, thus enhancing the theoretical and practical impacts of open innovation.
Purpose
This study aims to explore the potential of entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) in the underexplored sector of small and medium-sized web-based businesses, addressing the succession crisis in industrialized nations and offering insights into the digital ETA landscape.
Design/methodology/approach
The research uses a qualitative approach, conducting in-depth interviews with 19 established website owners from diverse backgrounds and industries. The study investigates their business models, selling motivations and characteristics to provide insights for potential buyers in the digital ETA space.
Findings
Web-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) present unique opportunities for ETA, characterized by lower initial investment, higher scalability and diverse revenue streams. Key considerations for buyers include understanding seller motivations, evaluating niche focus and assessing the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence on content creation and search engine optimization. The findings also highlight the importance of authenticity and user engagement in maintaining website value.
Practical implications
The findings offer valuable insights for entrepreneurs considering ETA in the digital space, highlighting critical factors for success, potential risks and mitigation strategies in acquiring web-based businesses.
Originality/value
This paper bridges a significant gap in ETA literature by focusing on web-based SMEs, which have previously been overlooked despite their growing importance in the digital economy. It provides a comprehensive analysis of relevant factors when evaluating web-based businesses in the context of ETA, particularly in light of technological advancements and changing online landscapes.
Organizational agility (OA), the ability of an organization to adapt to rapidly changing environments and reconfigure its structure and operations, has become a critical capability for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage. However, existing frameworks for OA often adopt narrow, industry-specific perspectives, neglecting the broader interplay of contextual factors, internal and external antecedents, and multidimensional capabilities. This study addresses this gap by conducting a systematic literature review (SLR) of 110 peer-reviewed articles from three leading academic databases. Guided by an inductive approach and the grounded theory methodology, this research identifies and categorizes the key antecedents of OA into four interconnected dimensions: contextual factors, fundamental attributes, vital enablers, and dynamic capabilities. The findings reconceptualize OA as a bundle of interrelated dynamic capabilities—encompassing macro-agility (e.g., strategic and partnering agility) and micro-agility (e.g., operational, innovation, and workforce agility)—rather than a singular construct. This multidimensional concept bridges theoretical gaps, integrating insights from contingency, agency and resource-based theories to explain the dynamic relationship between internal and external antecedents. The study offers a foundation for future research and provides actionable guidance for practitioners seeking to design agile organizations capable of thriving in dynamic capabilities.
The concept of bounded ethicality, introduced by Chugh et al. (2005) , complements that of bounded rationality by examining how individuals’ capacity to make ethical decisions is inherently constrained, leading to results systematically contradicting their own ethical standards. A key phenomenon that remains underexplored in this research is the tendency of individuals to underestimate the extent to which their own unethical behavior not only harms others but—more significantly—harms them. This blind spot reflects a form of myopia, as it pertains to the complex and far-reaching consequences of one’s actions. This article aims to specify the nature of this phenomenon, offer preliminary explanations, and discuss its broader implications for ethical decision-making in negotiations. Our argument is grounded in a qualitative, theory-building historical case study: the conflict surrounding the Lex Agraria in the late Roman Republic. We argue that unethical myopia is highly relevant for understanding how short-term gains from unethical actions obscure their long-term detrimental effects, and ultimately, it explains why such behavior is irrational. This insight holds not only for high-stakes negotiations but also for everyday situations in which individuals attempt to outsmart others. We also look at how the discussion on unethicality contributes to the discourse on the neglect of stakeholder interests in negotiations.