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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.

Kammerlander, N., Waldkirch, M., & Belschner, R. (2026). Pulling the trigger hurts: How family CEOs use sensemaking to overcome hesitancy to dismiss managers. Journal of Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063261420822

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.

Lauto, G., Pittino, D., & Visintin, F. (2020). Satisfaction of entrepreneurs: A comparison between founders and family business successors. Journal of Small Business Management, 58(3), 474–510.

Li, H., Terjesen, S., & Uman, T. (2020). Corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms: A systematic review and research agenda. Small Business Economics, 54(1), 43–74.

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.

Markowska, M., Grichnik, D., Brinckmann, J., & Kapsa, D. (2019). Strategic orientations of nascent entrepreneurs: Antecedents of prediction and risk orientation. Small Business Economics, 53(4), 859–878

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. (2025). It’s (not) all about the money: Financial decisions at the intersection of business and family. Journal of Family Business Management, 15(5), 1356–1368. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-01-2025-0031

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.

Muñoz-Bullón, F., Sanchez-Bueno, M. J., & Nordqvist, M. (2020). Growth intentions in family-based new venture teams: The role of the nascent entrepreneur’s R&D behavior. Management Decision, 58(6), 1190–1209.

Nahum, N., Larsson-Olaison, U., Uman, T., & Achtenhagen, L. (2026). Corporate governance for digital transformation: The role of ownership and the board of directors. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 223, 124453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124453

Naldi, L., Achtenhagen, L., & Davidsson, P. (2015). International Corporate Entrepreneurship among SMEs: A Test of Stevenson’s Notion of Entrepreneurial Management. Journal of Small Business Management, 53(3), 780–800.

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

Naldi, L., Nordqvist, M., Chirico, F., Gómez-Mejia, L., Ashforth, B. E., Swartz, R., & Melin, L. (2024). From FIBER to FIRE: Construct validation and refinement of the socioemotional wealth scale in family firms. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Nordqvist, M., & Gartner, W. B. (2020). Literature, fiction, and the family business. Family Business Review, 33(2), 122–129.

Ots, M., Cestino Castilla, J., & Meurer, M. M. (2025). Frames of entrepreneurship: 30 years of field evolution in the entrepreneurship industry. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01131-1
