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Melin, Leif
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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 and Regional Development
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2024 (English)In: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, ISSN 0898-5626, E-ISSN 1464-5114Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

The socio-emotional wealth perspective is a framework widely used to examine managerial decisions, particularly within the field of family business. We evaluate, refine, and validate the FIBER 27-item scale developed by Berrone et al. (2012) as a psychometric instrument to measure the socioemotional wealth construct (SEW), defined as affective endowment embedded by family owners in their business. The findings suggest that SEW is a superordinate multidimensional construct that captures socioemotional utilities in family firms and their impact on financial performance.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
family business, FIBER, FIRE, firm performance, scale validation, Socio-emotional wealth
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63926 (URN)10.1080/08985626.2024.2328294 (DOI)001185476300001 ()2-s2.0-85188456083 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;944431 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;944431 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;944431 (OAI)
Available from: 2024-04-02 Created: 2024-04-02 Last updated: 2024-04-05
Brundin, E., McClatchey, I. S. & Melin, L. (2023). Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership. The Journal of Family Business Strategy, 14(2), Article ID 100555.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Leaving the family business: The dynamics of psychological ownership
2023 (English)In: The Journal of Family Business Strategy, ISSN 1877-8585, E-ISSN 1877-8593, Vol. 14, no 2, article id 100555Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This study challenges the current and dominant notion that psychological ownership is static by exploring its dynamic nature. It addresses how individual family business owners express their psychological ownership and how psychological ownership is impacted over time. Based on a longitudinal and qualitative study during a real-time exit, we conclude that family business owners assign meanings to their psychological ownership that are individual, multifold, enduring and volatile. Furthermore, we conclude that the dynamics of psychological ownership imply that it varies in meanings, among individuals, and in presence and duration of meanings. We also conclude that it is influenced by contextual circumstances, and that it is possible to liberate oneself cognitively and emotionally from psychological ownership.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2023
Keywords
Family business, Psychological ownership, Dynamics of psychological ownership, Ownership as multifold, individual, enduring, volatile, and context dependent, Cognitive and emotional liberation of psychological ownership
National Category
Business Administration Applied Psychology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-60107 (URN)10.1016/j.jfbs.2023.100555 (DOI)001090446900001 ()2-s2.0-85151678107 (Scopus ID)HOA;intsam;874709 (Local ID)HOA;intsam;874709 (Archive number)HOA;intsam;874709 (OAI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2016-03061
Available from: 2023-04-11 Created: 2023-04-11 Last updated: 2023-11-28Bibliographically approved
Waldkirch, M., Melin, L. & Nordqvist, M. (2023). TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?: PROFESSIONALIZATION AS A MULTIPLE PRACTICE ADOPTION PROCESS. In: Academy of Management Proceedings: . Paper presented at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2023 Boston 4 August 2023 through 8 August 2023. Academy of Management, 1(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?: PROFESSIONALIZATION AS A MULTIPLE PRACTICE ADOPTION PROCESS
2023 (English)In: Academy of Management Proceedings, Academy of Management , 2023, Vol. 1, no 1Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Professionalization has become ubiquitous among a broad range of organizations, promising increased efficiency and legitimacy. However, extant research depicts professionalization mostly as a binary change and largely ignores its temporal and processual nature, resulting in a lack of insights into how professionalization unfolds and how organizations deal with its inherent tensions. Therefore, we take a processual perspective on professionalization, studying it as a transformation toward a more rationalized, managerialized, and formalized organization through multiple practice adoption. Relying on a longitudinal single case study of a Swedish family firm that professionalized its business and family ownership domains, our processual analysis reveals unique types of professionalization and four practice interaction mechanisms through which organizations deal with tensions in the professionalization process. We contribute by conceptualizing a process model of professionalization, casting light on practice interaction mechanisms, and outlining implications of professionalization for organizational goals.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Academy of Management, 2023
Series
Academy of Management Proceedings, ISSN 0065-0668, E-ISSN 2151-6561
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-64081 (URN)10.5465/AMPROC.2023.280bp (DOI)2-s2.0-85190419920 (Scopus ID)
Conference
83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2023 Boston 4 August 2023 through 8 August 2023
Available from: 2024-04-30 Created: 2024-04-30 Last updated: 2024-04-30Bibliographically approved
van Helvert-Beugels, J., Nordqvist, M. & Melin, L. (2020). Engaging practitioners in qualitative family business research: an engaged scholarship approach. In: A. De Massis & N. Kammerlander (Ed.), Handbook of qualitative research methods for family business: (pp. 399-417). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Engaging practitioners in qualitative family business research: an engaged scholarship approach
2020 (English)In: Handbook of qualitative research methods for family business / [ed] A. De Massis & N. Kammerlander, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, p. 399-417Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020
Series
Handbooks of Research Methods in Management
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-50705 (URN)9781788116442 (ISBN)9781788116459 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-09-28 Created: 2020-09-28 Last updated: 2020-09-28Bibliographically approved
Salvato, C., Chirico, F., Melin, L. & Seidl, D. (2019). Coupling family business research with organization studies: Interpretations, issues, and insights. Organization Studies, 40(6), 775-791
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Coupling family business research with organization studies: Interpretations, issues, and insights
2019 (English)In: Organization Studies, ISSN 0170-8406, E-ISSN 1741-3044, Vol. 40, no 6, p. 775-791Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Family-controlled firms are the most widespread form of business organization, but they have so far attracted limited attention from organizational scholars. The present work suggests that coupling research on family business organizations with organization studies will substantially benefit both areas of scholarly research. We explore how the five core defining features of family firms—ownership, management and governance, transgenerational intention, generational involvement, and perceived identity—may be illuminated by extant research in organization studies, and how, in turn, organizational studies may be extended by investigating its key themes in the empirical context of family firms.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2019
Keywords
Family firm, organization studies, family ownership, family management, family generations, family identity
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43391 (URN)10.1177/0170840619841402 (DOI)000469383300001 ()2-s2.0-85064153996 (Scopus ID)PPembargo0;intsam;1299839 (Local ID)PPembargo0;intsam;1299839 (Archive number)PPembargo0;intsam;1299839 (OAI)
Available from: 2019-03-28 Created: 2019-03-28 Last updated: 2021-03-03Bibliographically approved
Nazir, I. & Melin, L. (2019). Dynamic Entrepreneurial Capabilities: Strategizing, Activities and Actors in Family Firms Launching New Businesses. In: : . Paper presented at SMS 39th Annual Conference, October 19-22, 2019, Minneapolis, USA.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dynamic Entrepreneurial Capabilities: Strategizing, Activities and Actors in Family Firms Launching New Businesses
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Still research on strategizing activities and practices in the family business context is scant. At the same time there is suggested that entrepreneurial capabilities could be a useful concept to advance the study of strategizing in family firms, and corporate venturing in particular. In this paper we explore how family firm actors build entrepreneurial capabilities through strategizing activities to support their corporate venturing activities. We pay particular attention to the role of family owners/founders as core strategic actors emphasizing the importance of their resources to envision and mobilize activities needed to build these capabilities. Based on two case studies we found that entrepreneurial capabilities of performing activities for opportunity refinement, resource mobilization and customer orientation are needed to successfully launch, create and sustain new ventures.

National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-51605 (URN)
Conference
SMS 39th Annual Conference, October 19-22, 2019, Minneapolis, USA
Available from: 2021-01-21 Created: 2021-01-21 Last updated: 2021-01-21Bibliographically approved
Nazir, I., Brundin, E. & Melin, L. (2019). Dynamic influence of family capital on corporate venturing activities in entrepreneurial family firms. In: : . Paper presented at 15th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Nantes, France, May 23-25.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dynamic influence of family capital on corporate venturing activities in entrepreneurial family firms
2019 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-51607 (URN)
Conference
15th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research, Nantes, France, May 23-25
Available from: 2021-01-21 Created: 2021-01-21 Last updated: 2021-01-21Bibliographically approved
Brundin, E. & Melin, L. (2018). Meanings Of Ownership And Emotional Coping With Loss Of Ownership. In: : . Paper presented at 14th Workshop On Family Firm Management Research, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 17-19, 2018. European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Meanings Of Ownership And Emotional Coping With Loss Of Ownership
2018 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), 2018
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41911 (URN)
Conference
14th Workshop On Family Firm Management Research, Larnaca, Cyprus, May 17-19, 2018
Available from: 2018-10-26 Created: 2018-10-26 Last updated: 2018-10-26Bibliographically approved
Achtenhagen, L., Brunninge, O. & Melin, L. (2017). Patterns of dynamic growth in medium-sized companies: beyond the dichotomy of organic versus acquired growth. Long range planning, 50(4), 457-471
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Patterns of dynamic growth in medium-sized companies: beyond the dichotomy of organic versus acquired growth
2017 (English)In: Long range planning, ISSN 0024-6301, E-ISSN 1873-1872, Vol. 50, no 4, p. 457-471Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Current research commonly investigates two different growth modes, organic growth and growth by acquisitions. Studies on acquisition-based growth typically draw on cross-sectional quantitative studies of large firms that treat all acquisitions the same. Our study takes a different approach, and explores different growth modes of a smaller sample of medium-sized companies drawing on a longitudinal, qualitative case-study design. This research design allows us to identify eight different growth modes that companies combine in unique ways over time. Thereby, we illustrate that patterns of dynamic growth in medium-sized firms are much more diverse and complex than commonly assumed.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2017
Keywords
growth, renewal, SME, medium-sized company, strategy, family business, Penrose, organic growth, M&A, growth mode, organic growth
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-31709 (URN)10.1016/j.lrp.2016.08.003 (DOI)000405062500003 ()2-s2.0-84995478960 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-09-09 Created: 2016-09-09 Last updated: 2017-09-13Bibliographically approved
Waldkirch, M., Melin, L. & Nordqvist, M. (2017). When the cure turns counterproductive: Parallel professionalization in family firms. In: 2017 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017: . Paper presented at 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017; Atlanta; United States; 4 - 8 August 2017 (pp. 1-6). Academy of Management
Open this publication in new window or tab >>When the cure turns counterproductive: Parallel professionalization in family firms
2017 (English)In: 2017 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017, Academy of Management , 2017, p. 1-6Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Pressures to professionalize family firms increasingly encompass ownership practices. Relying on a 10-year single-case study, we show how the parallel professionalization of business and family governance interact over time and how conflicts of norms, introduced through professional practices, affect family and business. We thus cast an ambivalent picture of professionalization. © 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Academy of Management, 2017
Keywords
Family firms, Professional practices
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41074 (URN)10.5465/ambpp.2017.50 (DOI)2-s2.0-85046469930 (Scopus ID)
Conference
77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2017; Atlanta; United States; 4 - 8 August 2017
Available from: 2018-07-27 Created: 2018-07-27 Last updated: 2021-06-07Bibliographically approved
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