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Hagen, J., Naldi, L., & Karlsson, C. (2025). Aged to perfection? Unpacking the curvilinear relationship between founder age and new venture performance. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 24, e00568.

Hashim, S., McAdam, M., & Nordqvist, M. (2024). An exploration of women entrepreneurs “doing context” in family business in the Gulf States. International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 227–255.

Hashim, S., Naldi, L., & Markowska, M. (2021). “The royal award goes to…”: Legitimacy processes for female-led family ventures. Journal of Family Business Strategy, 12, 100358.

Hellerstedt, K., Uman, T., & Wennberg, K. (2024). Fooled by diversity? When diversity initiatives exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality. Academy of Management Perspectives, 38(1), 23–42.

Hirschmann, M., Block, J. H., & Krlev, G. (2026). Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises. Research Policy, 55, 105342.

Hsueh, J. W. J., & Zellweger, T. (2025). Old Money in the West: Succession Processes and the Persistence of Family Business Dynasties in the Western World. Academy of Management Discoveries.

Hsueh, J. W.-J., & Richards, M. (2025). Business Groups after Incidents of Wrongdoing: Exploring the Effectiveness of Differentiated Versus Aligned Impression Management Tactics. Journal of Management Studies.

Hsueh, J. W.-J., Campopiano, G., Tetzlaff, E., & Jaskiewicz, P. (2023). Managing non-family employees’ emotional connection with the family firms via shifting, compensating, and leveraging approaches. Long Range Planning, 56(1), 102274.

Hsueh, J. W.-J., De Massis, A., & Gomez-Mejia, L. (2023). Examining heterogeneous configurations of socioemotional wealth in family firms through the formalization of corporate social responsibility strategy. Family Business Review, 36(2), 172–198.

Ireland, R. D., Chirico, F., Akhter, N., Rondi, E., & Ijaz, R. (2025). The show must go on: Preserving the legacy business through exit in family business portfolio firms. Academy of Management Perspectives.

Iyer, D. N., Baù, M., Chirico, F., Patel, P. C., & Brush, T. H. (2019). The triggers of local and distant search: Relative magnitude and persistence in explaining acquisition relatedness. Long Range Planning, 52(1), 101825.

Jenkins, A., Achtenhagen, L., & Hellerstedt, K. (2024). Back to work? How employers perceive applicants' experience of entrepreneurial failure. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36(5-6), 659-680.

Jungk, S., & Waldkirch, M. (2024). When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36(3-4), 535-559.

Kanji, S., & Vershinina, N. (2024). Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: A linked-lives perspective. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36(7-8), 922-939.

Kuiken, A., Naldi, L., & Genedy, M. (2024). Keeping one’s options open: Intermittent exporting, family control, and foreign background. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 48(5), 1160-1190.

Lampe, H. W., Block, J., Willeke, T., Clauss, T., & Steinmetz, H. (2024). Technological innovations of hidden champions: Evidence from patent data. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 1–26.

Lanz, S., Burke, G., Haag, K., & Omidvar, O. (2025). Family lives in motion: Toward a life course process theory of ownership transfer in business-owning families. Family Business Review, 38(3), 210–238.

Lin, N., Wilden, R., Chirico, F., Ghasrodashti, E., & DeTienne, D. R. (2022). Persist or let it go: Do rational entrepreneurs make decisions rationally? Journal of Business Venturing, 37(4), 106210

Lorenzen, S., Gerken, M., Steinmetz, H., Block, J., Hülsbeck, M., & Lux, F. S. (2024). Environmental Sustainability of Family Firms: A Meta-Analysis of Handprint and Footprint. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 10422587231221799.

Maggi, B., Pongelli, C., & Sciascia, S. (2023). Family firms and international equity-based entry modes: A systematic literature review. Multinational Business Review, 31(1), 38-63.

Maine, J., Florin Samuelsson, E., & Uman, T. (2022). Ambidextrous sustainability, organisational structure and performance in hybrid organisations. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 35(3), 734–769

Malki, B. (2024). Financial ambidexterity of the immigrant family businesses: The role of boundary work and behavioral complexity. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 53(1), 21-41.

Malki, B., Uman, T., & Pittino, D. (2022). The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: A literature review. Small Business Economics, 58, 1337–1365.

Manzi, M. A., Cirillo, A., Mussolino, D., & Uman, T. (2024). Early adoption of non‐financial disclosure in family firms. European Management Review.

Markowska, M., Ahl, H., & Naldi, L. (2025). “My Child Has Two Parents”: Swedish Women Entrepreneurs Doing and Undoing Their Motherhood. Gender, Work & Organization.

Martínez-Alonso, R., Martínez-Romero, M. J., Rojo-Ramírez, A. A., Lazzarotti, V., & Sciascia, S. (2023). Process innovation in family firms: Family involvement in management, R&D collaboration with suppliers, and technology protection. Journal of Business Research, 157, 113581.
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Melander, A., Brunninge, O., Andersson, D., Elgh, F., & Löfving, M. (2024). Management innovation in SMEs – taking psychological ownership of Hoshin Kanri. Production Planning & Control, 35(14), 1687-1705.

Michiels, A., & Binz-Astrachan, C. (2024). Money education in the business family: A perspective article. Journal of Family Business Management.

Minola, T., Baù, M., Brumana, M., & De Massis, A. (2022). Under which circumstances do family SMEs achieve high growth? A behavioural perspective. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 40(6), 768–798.

Naldi, L., Baù, M., Ahl, H., & Markowska, M. (2021). Gender (in)equality within the household and business start-up among mothers. Small Business Economics, 56(3), 903–918
